Exploring the Relationship Between Listening Style and Need for Cognition

Abstract

To further our understanding of listening as a cognitive process, a greater understanding of the relationship between listening and other personality and cognitive constructs is needed. To that end, this study explores the relationship between need for cognition and listening style preference. Results indicate that need for cognition is moderately associated with the Content listening style such that participants with higher need for cognition scores exhibit a higher preference for content listening.

Notes

¹More importantly, the Cronbach's alpha of the content subscales for both this study and the Imhof (2004) study were lower than desired (.59 and .20, respectively). Consequently, the Imhof finding and related claims made as part of this discussion require additional testing for confirmation.