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A New Measure of Conversational Experience: The Speaking Extent and Comfort Scale (SPEACS)

Antonia C. Lyons

University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom

John Spicer

Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand

Few measures exist which directly assess aspects of conversational experience. We present and provide a psychometric assessment of the Speaking Extent and Comfort Scale (SPEACS), a new 20-item measure which assesses four aspects of past conversational experience: the extent and comfort of both general conversations and in conversations specifically about the self. All four SPEACS subscales exhibited good test-retest reliability. As predicted, the subscales related positively to social competence, disclosure, assertiveness, and perceived availability of someone to talk to, and negatively to social avoidance and social anxiety, providing support for their construct validity. Internal consistency data demonstrated that people tend to vary in how often and how comfortable they feel having conversations with different people. SPEACS offers a range of potential applications in areas with a focus on social networks, social experience and interaction, and the possibility of extension to other dimensions of conversational experience.

Key Words: conversation • social experience • social interaction • self • social anxiety • social avoidance

Assessment, Vol. 6, No. 2, 189-202 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/107319119900600206
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