The Listening Styles Profile (LSP-16): Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Four Listening Styles

Abstract

The Listening Styles Profile (LSP-16) is a sixteen-item inventory designed to assess four distinct approaches—labeled people-, action-, content-, and time-oriented styles—to receiving information. Responses from a large sample of young adults were employed to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the LSP-16. Specifically, an extensive scrutiny of the factor structure underlying the LSP-16 was conducted and the internal consistency, stability, and reliability of the four style subscales was assessed. The data at hand suggest that the Listening Styles Profile (LSP-16) may have considerable utility in clinical, training, and research environments for measurement and study of the ways that people prefer to listen.