Smelosť verzus ostýchavosť v komunikácii gymnazistov

• Authors: Peter Gavora

Title variants

EN

Boldness versus Reticence in the Communication of Students at Grammar Schools

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article describes the adaptation of the Reticence Scale questionnaire (Keaten et al., 1997) for the Slovak environment. The original scale was modified to measure on a continuum reticence in communication through to boldness in communication. The factor analysis yielded a unidimensional scale on which Cronbach alpha was 0.903. The performances of a sample of Slovak grammar school students were measured using the modified Reticence Scale questionnaire. The average score was 4.20 on a 6-point scale, which indicates boldness in communication. Unexpectedly, no statistical difference was found in the communicative boldness of girls as opposed to that of boys. Between boldness in communication and scores recorded on a scale measuring self-perception, a correlation of 0.57 was found.

Keywords

EN

communication boldness; communication reticence; grammar school students

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Studia paedagogica
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 119-136

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Peter Gavora

• Studia paedagogica Ústav pedagogických věd Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity Arna Nováka 1 602 00 Czech republic