A cross-cultural comparison of aggressive communication traits: Verbal aggressiveness, argumentativeness, and assertiveness (China, Japan, United States).

摘要

This study compares aggressive communication traits in three countries, China, Japan and the United States. Aggressive communication traits can be distinguished into two categories; constructive traits (i.e. assertiveness, argumentativeness) and destructive traits (i.e. hostility, verbal aggressiveness). This study analyzed tendencies of these communication traits displayed among participants in three countries, employing the Argumentativeness Scale (Infante & Rancer, 1982), the Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (Infante & Wigley, 1986), and the Assertiveness Scale (Richmond & McCroskey, 1992). The results indicated significant interaction effects of country and sex with the main effects of both on all three communication traits. In addition, implications and limitations of these findings as well as suggestions for future research are discussed.