Evaluating Physician Communication Competence Scales: A Replication and Extension |
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| Authors: | Gwen A Hullman Mark Daily |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Speech Communication &2. Theatre at the University of Nevada , Reno, NVgwenh@unr.edu;4. University of Nevada , Kansas City, MD |
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| Abstract: | Academic entitlement, a term used to reflect students' expectation for success regardless of personal effort, has become a growing issue at many universities. This study examined the relationship between college students' academic beliefs (i.e., academic entitlement, grade orientation, learner orientation, self-efficacy) and their motives for communicating with their instructor. Participants were 184 undergraduate students who completed a series of self-report scales. Students' level of academic entitlement was positively related to their grade orientation but negatively related to their self-efficacy. Results of a canonical correlation revealed that students who were learning oriented, but not grade oriented, and possessed self-efficacy communicated with their instructor for relational and participatory reasons. Students who were academically entitled and grade oriented communicated with their instructor for sycophantic reasons and to a lesser extent for participatory reasons but not for functional reasons. |
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| Keywords: | Doctor-Patient Communication Health Communication Medical Communication Physician Communication Competence |
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