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Personality correlates of nonverbal interview behavior
Author(s) -
Wiens Arthur N.,
Harper Robert G.,
Matarazzo Joseph D.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198001)36:1<205::aid-jclp2270360126>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - psychology , nonverbal communication , extraversion and introversion , neuroticism , anxiety , personality , conversation , interpersonal communication , developmental psychology , interview , social psychology , big five personality traits , communication , political science , law , psychiatry
Measured interviewee nonverbal behaviors, which included selected temporal speech behaviors and duration and frequency of interviewee adaptor and illustrator hand movements and gaze at the interviewer. Ss ( N = 30) were evaluated for IQ, field dependence, state‐trait anxiety, self‐monitoring, introversion‐extraversion, neuroticism, and personal characteristics measured by the Gough Adjective Checklist and Test of Attentional and Interpersonal Style. As predicted, the experimental Ss responded to the interviewer latency delay with increased latencies of their own and a reduction in illustrator behavior. Length of interviewee speech utterances during the first 10‐minute period of “normal” conversation was related to positive self‐descriptions, whereas interviewee interruptions were associated with measures of anxiety, poorer self‐adjustment and attentional confusion.