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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the predictive validity of the Personal Report of interethnic Communication Apprehension (Neuliep & McCroskey, 1997). The PRECA was found to be negatively associated with participants’ communication satisfaction and positively associated with their anxiety following interactions with individuals from other ethnic groups. The PRECA was also found to be a better predictor of these outcomes than the more general measure of communication apprehension, the PRCA‐24 (McCroskey, 1982). However, High ECAs who interacted with a different ethnicity partner did not differ in their communication satisfaction or anxiety from those who interacted with someone of the same ethnicity. Our findings, therefore, provide only mixed support for the utility of the PRECA.