Matching Messages to the Values Underlying Value-Expressive and Social-Adjustive Attitudes: Reconciling an Old Theory with a Contemporary Measurement Approach.

Hullett, Craig R.; Boster, Franklin J.

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ERIC Number: EJ634555

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Publication Date: 2001

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Matching Messages to the Values Underlying Value-Expressive and Social-Adjustive Attitudes: Reconciling an Old Theory with a Contemporary Measurement Approach.

Hullett, Craig R.; Boster, Franklin J.

Communication Monographs, v68 n2 p133-53 Jun 2001

Argues that value-expressive attitudes and social-adjustive attitudes are based in a person's values. Indicates formation of these attitudes among the undergraduate student subjects depended more on the match between the value-content of the persuasive messages and the extent to which the message recipients hold those values than their level of other-directedness. (SG)

Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication Research, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Social Adjustment, Social Influences, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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