Donald W Klopf

Biographic Data

ID7114753
NAMEDonald W Klopf
GIVEN NAMESDonald W
FAMILY NAMEKlopf
SIGNATUREKLOPF D W
AFFILIATIONSWest Virginia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
H-INDEX0

  • Social Style among North American, Finnish, Japanese, and Korean University Students

    Open AccessCatherine A Thompson, Donald W KlopfARTICLEPsychological Reports1995

    Using Richmond and McCroskey's Assertiveness-Responsiveness Measure, scores of Finnish (86 men, 144 women), Japanese (124 men, 116 women), Korean (34 men, 20 women), and North American (144 men, 108 women) university students were compared. The Americans' scores indicated that their group was significantly more assertive than were the participants from the other countries. The Korean men scored as more responsive than the other men, the North Ame…

  • Social Styles of Finns and Americans

    Open AccessAino Sallinen‐Kuparinen, AINO SALLINEN-KUPARINEN et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1991

    Using the Assertiveness-Responsiveness Measure, scores of 230 Finnish university students were compared with those of 251 American university students. These American students' scores indicated that they were significantly more assertive and responsive than were the Finnish participants, the American men scored as more assertive than the Finnish men, and both groups of women as more responsive than both groups of men

  • Finns and Americans Compared on the Immediacy Construct

    Open AccessCatherine A Thompson, Donald W Klopf et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1991

    The Self-assessment of Immediacy Scale was administered to 219 Finnish students and 147 American students. The two groups were not significantly different from each other in perceived nonverbal immediacy. When the men were compared to the women, the women were significantly more immediate

  • Loneliness among Korean and American University Students

    Open AccessChristina M Simmons, Donald W Klopf et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1991

    Korean and American university students were compared on the Differential Loneliness Scale. The 70 Koreans scored as more lonely than the 213 Americans, while all were living away from home

  • Argumentativeness among Selected Finnish and American College Students

    Open AccessDonald W Klopf, Catherine A Thompson et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1991

    Compared on the Infante/Rancer Argumentativeness scale, 247 Finnish university students had a significantly higher mean score on argumentativeness as a trait than 155 American university students. No significant difference was noted on the desire to approach arguments, but the American students were significantly more inclined to avoid arguments than the Finnish students

  • Finnish and American University Students Compared on a Verbal Aggression Construct

    Open AccessAino Sallinen‐Kuparinen, AINO SALLINEN-KUPARINEN et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1991

    232 Finnish and 145 American university students showed no significant differences on Infante and Wigley's measure of verbal aggressiveness. In keeping with general stereotypes, the men of both cultures (88 Finns, 86 Americans) were more verbally aggressive than were the women (144 Finns, 59 Americans)

  • Japanese and Americans Compared on Assertiveness/Responsiveness

    Open AccessCatherine A Thompson, Satoshi Ishii et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1990

    A comparison of the social styles of 252 American and 241 Japanese college students showed that female students (108 and 116, respectively) were significantly different on both the assertiveness and responsiveness dimensions and that male students (144 and 125, respectively) were significantly different only on the assertiveness dimension

  • Loneliness among Japanese and American College Students

    Open AccessTracy Pearl, Donald W Klopf et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1990

    Both Japanese and American college students (ns = 100), away from home at their first year in college, showed high scores in the Differential Loneliness Scale, with Japanese students scoring higher on all subscales

  • Japanese and Americans Compared on the Affect Orientation Construct

    Open AccessAnn Bainbridge Frymier, Donald W Klopf et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1990

    162 Japanese and 202 American university students completed the affect orientation scale on which American men scored higher than Japanese men and American women higher than Japanese women. The American women also scored higher than American men. Other comparisons were statistically nonsignificant

  • Apprehension about Speaking among College Students in the People's Republic of China

    Open AccessDonald W Klopf, Donald Klopf et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1980

  • Apprehension about Speaking in the Organizational Setting

    Open AccessDonald W Klopf, Donald Klopf et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1979

    Among employed persons sampled nationally, approximately 15 36 mere highly apprehensive about communicating orally in the organizational setting (4) In Hawaii research which tapped apprehension in a variety of contexts showed the incidence to be higher than among people elsewhere (2). But none of the contexts related to the organizational environment. This study examined apprehension in Hawaii, specifically as it is perceived in occupationally re…

  • Apprehension about Writing and Speaking

    Open AccessDonald W Klopf, Donald Klopf et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1979

  • Reducing Apprehension about Communication

    Open AccessBeverley J Oka, Ronald E Cambra et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1979