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12 Western Journal of Speech Communicationthe social rewards people receive are directly related to their ability tofacilitate positive regard. As such, we posited that individuals probablydevelop a sense of their affinity-seeking competence and could thus offervalid reports of these skills. This proposition was put to an empiricaltest in a fourth investigation. The issue here is whether people's perceptionsof their competence, as assessed by the ASI, are consistent withothers' perceptions of their abilities. This question was addressed by comparingpeople's self-reports of their proficiency at affinity-seeking to theirfriends' perceptions of their competence.STUDY 4: FRIEND EVALUATIONSParticipants and ProceduresStudents enrolled in communication courses at a large easternuniversity were asked to participate in a study of liking. Each broughta close friend to the investigation, someone who knew him or her well.Participants were 43 pairs of friends (20 male-male pairs, 15 femalefemalepairs, and 8 mixed-sex pairs). After each pair arrived to adesignated room at a specified time, they were separated and then givena questionnaire consisting of two copies ofthe ASI. Initially, participantswere asked to complete the ASI with their own communication tendenciesin mind (hereafter referred to as their self-rating). Next, each participantwas told to pretend that he or she was the friend and to completethe ASI as the friend should if the friend was being completelyhonest in his/her self-assessment (hereafter referred to as thefriend-rating).Results and DiscussionEach participant's self-rating of affinity-seeking skill was matchedwith the friend-rating of his/her comrade (A^=86). The alpha reliabilitiesof the scales for the self-ratings were .89 for ASC and .84 for SP; theinter-correlation for these two self-ratings was .29. The means (and standarddeviations) were 43.20 (7.61) for the ASC scale and 21.98 (5.79) forthe SP measure. The reliabilities for the friend-ratings on the ASC andSP measures were .84 for both. If self-reported affinity-seeking skillreflects actual abilities, we should expect substantial correlations betweenthe self- and friend-ratings on the ASC and SP scales. The correlationbetween self-ratings and friend-ratings of ASC was .44 (p< .001);after correcting for attenuation, the correlation was .51. The correlationbetween self-ratings and friend ratings on the SP measure was .37(p< .001); the unattenuated correlation was .44. Thus, there was a correspondencebetween people's reports of their affinity-seeking skills andtheir friends' perceptions of these abilities.
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