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Fritz, Janie M. Harden – Journal of Business Communication, 1997
Finds that the number of relationships claimed by men and women were similar, but women's collegial relationships were higher on several relational functions than men's, and women's special peer relationships were stronger than men's in several areas. Shows that the work setting as a context is, for friendship purposes, similar to nonwork…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Friendship, Higher Education

Friedley, Sheryl A.; Manchester, Bruce B. – 1985
A study was conducted to (1) describe the male/female participation and success in regional and national forensic individual events tournament competition, and (2) identify areas of gender-based inequity from these data. Letters requesting 1984-85 tournament results were sent to 44 individual events tournament directors, of which 20 were…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Competition, Debate
Berryman-Fink, Cynthia; Brunner, Claire – 1985
A study was conducted to explore how males and females differ in their use of interpersonal conflict management styles. Subjects were 71 male and 76 female students from an introductory interpersonal communication course at a large midwestern state university. They were instructed to think of an important relationship with either an opposite-sex…
Descriptors: Administration, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution
Copeland, Gary A.; Kelly, Lynne – 1983
Defining communication reticence as anxiousness due to a lack of basic communication skills, a study was conducted to determine (1) whether significant differences exist in the distribution of sex roles between reticent and nonreticent populations, (2) whether reticents and nonreticents differ in masculinity and femininity, and (3) which qualities…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Females

Koike, Dale A. – Hispania, 1986
Reports a study of the correlation of linguistic variation with the variables of gender and context specificity in Brazilian Portuguese. The study focused on differences found in the expression of a particular directive by adult middle-class male and female speakers of the Carioca dialect of Rio de Janeiro. (SED)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
Strohkirch, Carolyn Sue; Hargett, Jennifer G. – 1998
A study examined whether there were differences in the ways that undergraduate college students viewed their academic performance. Relationships between sex of student, motivation, self esteem, achievement, and attributional pattern utilized were examined. Subjects (132 female, 104 male) were chosen on a voluntary basis; most were enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Stull, James B.; Von Till, Beth – 1995
A study measured student agreement or disagreement with statements related to G. Hofstede's dimensions of culture and compares those responses with various cultural characteristics of the respondents. A 40-item Likert-type questionnaire was administered to 535 university students (301 females, 234 males) enrolled in business and communication…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Dozier, David M.; And Others – 1983
Two studies tested the hypothesis that the annual salaries of women in public relations are significantly less than those of men of equal education, professional experience, and length of employment with their current organization. A second hypothesis included organizational role status as a variable. The first study surveyed members of four…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Employment Qualifications, Females
Manchester, Bruce B.; Friedley, Sheryl A. – 1984
A study was conducted to describe male and female participation and success in both debate and individual events national competition and to identify areas of gender-based inequity. Data from three 1984 national tournaments (National Debate Tournament, American Forensic Association's National Individual Events Tournament, and the National Forensic…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Competition
Pearson, Judy C. – 1982
A study examined the grading patterns in basic public speaking and communication courses. It was hypothesized that female students would receive higher grades in basic performance and nonperformance communication courses than would male students. The grades for one academic quarter in two nonperformance communication courses and one public…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Females

Giles, Howard; And Others – Central States Speech Journal, 1983
Results indicate that a tremendous similarity exists between the significant traits found in this study and those reported in 1977-78 by Kramer (EJ 193 886). Speech stereotypes accorded the sexes appear not to have abated. (PD)
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Females

Pearson, Judy C.; And Others – Central States Speech Journal, 1983
This study did not support the following hypothesis: more sexually-oriented jokes will reflect a sexist bias against women than against men. Instead, the findings indicate that joke-tellers of both sexes were more likely to select sexual jokes that discriminated against males. (PD)
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Females
Hanson, Trudy L. – 1995
A study focused on the administrative training and leadership practices used by communication chairpersons. Of particular interest is the comparison of leadership practices of male and female chairpersons and how those practices are influenced by the length of term as chair, the size of the institution, the size of the department, whether or not…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis

Feinman, Joel A.; Feldman, Robert S. – Child Development, 1982
Mothers' ability to decode their children's nonverbal expressions of four affects (happiness, sadness, fear, and anger) was contrasted with the decoding ability of a matched group of nonmothers. Results indicate that mothers were accurately able to decode expressions of happiness but had relative difficulty with decoding expressions of sadness,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis

Margolin, Gayla; Wampold, Bruce E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1981
Compared the interactional patterns of distressed (N=22) and nondistressed (N=17) couples through base rate and sequential analyses of communication samples that were coded with the Marital Interactional Coding System. Nondistressed couples emitted higher rates of problem-solving, verbal and nonverbal positive, and neutral behaviors. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods