Rebecca B Rubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 132602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca B Rubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca B |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubin |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIN R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Stuck in Traffick film project: Engaging young men in community-based expressive arts activism
The Stuck in Traffick film project (SIT) is a community-based, expressive arts activism project supported by the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation’s Margaret’s Place program (MP). SIT was sparked by the vision of five teen male participants of the MP peer leadership and young men’s groups in Brooklyn, New York, in 2013. Through an integrative, expressive arts-based process, the young men used filmmaking to explore the relationship between two soc…
Appropriateness and Effectiveness of Communication Channels in Competent Interpersonal Communication
We examined perceived appropriateness and effectiveness of six communication channels (face-to-face, telephone, voice mail, electronic mail, letter, fax) used in relation to interpersonal communication motives (inclusion, affection, control relaxation, escape, pleasure) in other-directed and self-directed need-fulfillment situations. In Study 1, respondents selected the channel they thought would best communicate standard messages and rated it on…
A New Measure of Cognitive Flexibility
This paper contains a description of a scale to measure cognitive flexibility. In Study 1, 247 participants completed the Cognitive Flexibility Scale, the Communication Flexibility Scale, and the Rigidity of Attitudes Regarding Personal Habits Scale. In Study 2, 275 participants completed the Cognitive Flexibility Scale, the Interaction Involvement Scale, the Self-monitoring Scale, and the Unwillingness to Communicate Scale. Analysis showed the C…
Development of a measure of interpersonal communication competence
This article reports the development of a self‐report Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (ICCS) that taps 10 dimensions of competence: self‐disclosure, empathy, social relaxation, assertiveness, interaction management, altercentrism, expressiveness, supportiveness, immediacy, and environmental control. First, we created the ICCS, reducing the number of items from an original 60 to 10. Then we established concurrent validity of the scale…
A cross-cultural examination of interpersonal communication motives in Mexico and The United States
Attribution in Social and Parasocial Relationships
This study examined social and parasocial interaction from interpersonal attribution perspectives. Parasocial interaction is a perceived interpersonal relationship on the part of a television viewer with a mass media persona. We proposed that attributional confidence associated with parasocial interaction would mirror that resulting from social interaction and that personal construct theory and uncertainty reduction theory might add to knowledge …
Conceptualization and Measurement of Interpersonal Communication Motives
Journal Article Conceptualization and Measurement of Interpersonal Communication Motives Get access Rebecca B. Rubin, Rebecca B. Rubin 1Rebecca B. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, 1975) is associate professor of speech communication at Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth M. Perse, Elizabeth M. Perse 2Elizabeth M. Perse (Ph. D., Kent State University, 198…
Development of parasocial interaction relationships
The parasocial interaction relationship development process was explored by applying principles of uncertainty reduction theory. Results suggested that parasocial relationship development follows a path from (a) social and task attraction to (b) parasocial interaction to (c) a sense of relationship importance. Length of exposure to the television character was not related to parasocial interaction in the path model. The study affirmed the contrib…
Media Use and Meaning of Music Video
Interface of personal and mediated communication: A research agenda
Uses and gratifications is seen as a viable communication perspective for examining the interface of interpersonal and mass communication. This essay explicates the interpersonal dimension of uses and gratifications models, including individual needs and functional alternatives. The uses of interpersonal channels are considered as coequal alternatives to the uses of media channels for the gratification of social and psychological needs. The paral…
The validity of the communication competency assessment instrument
This study reports validity information on one measure of communication competence, the Communication Competency Assessment Instrument (CCAI). Conceptual validity of the CCAI was demonstrated in prior research. This study, in confirming operational validity, found that self‐reported measures correlated only slightly with observations of students' actual behaviors, while holistic impressions of competence were wholly consistent with the CCAI ratin…
Contextual Age and Television Use: Reexamining a Life-Position Indicator
(1982). Contextual Age and Television Use: Reexamining a Life-Position Indicator. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 583-604
Contextual Age and Television Use
Journal Article Contextual Age and Television Use Get access Alan M. Rubin, Alan M. Rubin 1Alan M. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1976) and Rebecca B. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1975) are assistant professors of communication at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rebecca B. Rubin Rebecca B. Rubin 1Alan M. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois,…
Ideal traits and terms of address for male and female college professors
Conceptualization and Measurement of Interpersonal Communication Motives
Journal Article Conceptualization and Measurement of Interpersonal Communication Motives Get access Rebecca B. Rubin, Rebecca B. Rubin 1Rebecca B. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, 1975) is associate professor of speech communication at Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth M. Perse, Elizabeth M. Perse 2Elizabeth M. Perse (Ph. D., Kent State University, 198…
Contextual Age and Television Use
Journal Article Contextual Age and Television Use Get access Alan M. Rubin, Alan M. Rubin 1Alan M. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1976) and Rebecca B. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1975) are assistant professors of communication at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rebecca B. Rubin Rebecca B. Rubin 1Alan M. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois,…
Media Use and Meaning of Music Video
The validity of the communication competency assessment instrument
This study reports validity information on one measure of communication competence, the Communication Competency Assessment Instrument (CCAI). Conceptual validity of the CCAI was demonstrated in prior research. This study, in confirming operational validity, found that self‐reported measures correlated only slightly with observations of students' actual behaviors, while holistic impressions of competence were wholly consistent with the CCAI ratin…
Ideal traits and terms of address for male and female college professors
A cross-cultural examination of interpersonal communication motives in Mexico and The United States
Contextual Age and Television Use: Reexamining a Life-Position Indicator
(1982). Contextual Age and Television Use: Reexamining a Life-Position Indicator. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 583-604
Ideal traits and terms of address for male and female college professors
Contextual Age and Television Use: Reexamining a Life-Position Indicator
(1982). Contextual Age and Television Use: Reexamining a Life-Position Indicator. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 583-604
Contextual Age and Television Use
Journal Article Contextual Age and Television Use Get access Alan M. Rubin, Alan M. Rubin 1Alan M. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1976) and Rebecca B. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1975) are assistant professors of communication at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rebecca B. Rubin Rebecca B. Rubin 1Alan M. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois,…
Interface of personal and mediated communication: A research agenda
Uses and gratifications is seen as a viable communication perspective for examining the interface of interpersonal and mass communication. This essay explicates the interpersonal dimension of uses and gratifications models, including individual needs and functional alternatives. The uses of interpersonal channels are considered as coequal alternatives to the uses of media channels for the gratification of social and psychological needs. The paral…
The validity of the communication competency assessment instrument
This study reports validity information on one measure of communication competence, the Communication Competency Assessment Instrument (CCAI). Conceptual validity of the CCAI was demonstrated in prior research. This study, in confirming operational validity, found that self‐reported measures correlated only slightly with observations of students' actual behaviors, while holistic impressions of competence were wholly consistent with the CCAI ratin…
Media Use and Meaning of Music Video
Development of parasocial interaction relationships
The parasocial interaction relationship development process was explored by applying principles of uncertainty reduction theory. Results suggested that parasocial relationship development follows a path from (a) social and task attraction to (b) parasocial interaction to (c) a sense of relationship importance. Length of exposure to the television character was not related to parasocial interaction in the path model. The study affirmed the contrib…
Conceptualization and Measurement of Interpersonal Communication Motives
Journal Article Conceptualization and Measurement of Interpersonal Communication Motives Get access Rebecca B. Rubin, Rebecca B. Rubin 1Rebecca B. Rubin (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, 1975) is associate professor of speech communication at Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth M. Perse, Elizabeth M. Perse 2Elizabeth M. Perse (Ph. D., Kent State University, 198…
Attribution in Social and Parasocial Relationships
This study examined social and parasocial interaction from interpersonal attribution perspectives. Parasocial interaction is a perceived interpersonal relationship on the part of a television viewer with a mass media persona. We proposed that attributional confidence associated with parasocial interaction would mirror that resulting from social interaction and that personal construct theory and uncertainty reduction theory might add to knowledge …
A cross-cultural examination of interpersonal communication motives in Mexico and The United States
Development of a measure of interpersonal communication competence
This article reports the development of a self‐report Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (ICCS) that taps 10 dimensions of competence: self‐disclosure, empathy, social relaxation, assertiveness, interaction management, altercentrism, expressiveness, supportiveness, immediacy, and environmental control. First, we created the ICCS, reducing the number of items from an original 60 to 10. Then we established concurrent validity of the scale…
A New Measure of Cognitive Flexibility
This paper contains a description of a scale to measure cognitive flexibility. In Study 1, 247 participants completed the Cognitive Flexibility Scale, the Communication Flexibility Scale, and the Rigidity of Attitudes Regarding Personal Habits Scale. In Study 2, 275 participants completed the Cognitive Flexibility Scale, the Interaction Involvement Scale, the Self-monitoring Scale, and the Unwillingness to Communicate Scale. Analysis showed the C…
Appropriateness and Effectiveness of Communication Channels in Competent Interpersonal Communication
We examined perceived appropriateness and effectiveness of six communication channels (face-to-face, telephone, voice mail, electronic mail, letter, fax) used in relation to interpersonal communication motives (inclusion, affection, control relaxation, escape, pleasure) in other-directed and self-directed need-fulfillment situations. In Study 1, respondents selected the channel they thought would best communicate standard messages and rated it on…
The Stuck in Traffick film project: Engaging young men in community-based expressive arts activism
The Stuck in Traffick film project (SIT) is a community-based, expressive arts activism project supported by the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation’s Margaret’s Place program (MP). SIT was sparked by the vision of five teen male participants of the MP peer leadership and young men’s groups in Brooklyn, New York, in 2013. Through an integrative, expressive arts-based process, the young men used filmmaking to explore the relationship between two soc…
Psychology (14 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (8 works) · Media Influence and Health (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Interpersonal communication (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Interpersonal relationship (4 works) · Library science (3 works)