Sender’s Self-Monitoring Traits: Conducive Factors Affecting Interpersonal Communication among Turkish University Students

Self-monitoring researches show that high self-monitoring individuals have not only ability to self-disclosure but also have ability to facilitate others’ disclosure. The aim of this paper is to define this conducive factors understanding which communication skills of university students in Turkey facilitate others’ disclosure and create dialogic communication. In this study, 24 questions have been directed at participants, in order to make a determination in relation to the conducive skills of university students in Turkey, which allow a dialogue environment to be created during the process of interpersonal communication (N=384). As a result, it has been put forward which of the conducive skills that point out to a dialogue tendency are given importance.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Kişilerarası iletişim, öz-izlenimcilik, aktif dinleme, yüz yüze iletişim, mesaj tasarımı

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Self-monitoring researches show that high self-monitoring individuals have not only ability to selfdisclosure but also have ability to facilitate others’ disclosure. The aim of this paper is to define this conducive factors understanding which communication skills of university students in Turkey facilitate others’ disclosure and create dialogic communication. In this study, 24 questions have been directed at participants, in order to make a determination in relation to the conducive skills of university students in Turkey, which allow a dialogue environment to be created during the process of interpersonal communication (N=384). As a result, it has been put forward which of the conducive skills that point out to a dialogue tendency are given importance

Keywords:

Interpersonal Communication, self-Monitoring, active listening, face to face communication, message design,

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