Publication Date
7-1980
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Carley Dodd, Randall Capps, John O'Connor
Degree Program
Department of Communication
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Abstract
This study examined the relationship of world view to selected communication, demographic, and social variables. Using a newly developed scale for world view, the researcher tested one hundred forty-nine high school and college level subjects to determine significant interactions between world view and communication apprehension, use of mass media, trust, life satisfaction, social participation, age, grade level, sex, income, and race. Data analyses included factor analyses, analyses of variance, and correlation and regression analyses.
Results of the simple correlation indicated that the age-grade combination was the strongest single factor followed by income, religious participation, television watching, sex, newspaper reading, radio listening, and communication apprehension. Generally, the ANOVA showed that the college level student had a higher world view than the high school student; that with one exception males had a higher world view than females; that low religious participation almost consistently accompanied a higher world view than high religious participation, that low television watching accompanied high world view; that low income males showed higher world view than high income males, while income failed to show any affect on females; and that communication apprehension interacted with world view in conjunction with religious participation and sex in a complicated pattern. No significant interaction was detected with world view and race, world view and trust, or world view and life satisfaction.
Disciplines
Communication | International and Intercultural Communication | Interpersonal and Small Group Communication | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Influence and Political Communication
Recommended Citation
Garmon, Cecile, "World View & Correlates of Communication Behaviors" (1980). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 2393.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2393
Included in
International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Commons, Social Influence and Political Communication Commons