A study examined school and home variables as contributing factors in the development of communication apprehension in children. Subjects, 89 undergraduate students in 2 sections of a semester-long course in organizational communication and two sections of an introductory level course in interpersonal communication at a midwestern university,…

Examined the role of parent/home and school variables in predicting the apprehension of college students. Home and school, when taken together, accounted for significantly more of the apprehension than either one did individually, although school effects were stronger than home effects. (PD)

This paper reviews the research literature in the area of family communication and reports on what is known about communicaton in the homes of emotionally disturbed children. It then reviews and summarizes the patterns of communication cited in the literature that seem unique to such homes, including extreme emotional distance between parents, a…