The Relationship Between Instructor Job Satisfaction and Communicator Style and Socio-Communicative Orientation

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between instructors’ job satisfaction and perceptions of their own communicator style and socio-communicative orientation. Participants were 122 instructors from 51 academic units at a large Mid-Atlantic university. It was found that instructors’ self-reports of their job satisfaction were positively related to their use of the impression-leaving communicator style attribute, the relaxed communicator style attribute, the attentive communicator style attribute, the open communicator style attribute, and the responsive socio-communicative orientation dimension.

Keywords:

• Communicator Style
• Instructor Job Satisfaction
• Socio-Communicative Orientation

Acknowledgments

A version of this article was presented at the 2011 Eastern Communication Association convention, Cambridge, MA.

Notes

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Notes on contributors

Rebecca K. DiClemente

Rebecca K. DiClemente (MA, West Virginia University, 2012)

Elizabeth A. Ditrinco

Elizabeth A. Ditrinco (MA, West Virginia University, 2012)

Kaitlyn E. Gibbons

Kaitlyn E. Gibbons (MA, West Virginia University, 2012) are employed in private industry.

Scott A. Myers

Scott A. Myers (PhD, Kent State University, 1995) is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at West Virginia University.