Diotaiuti Pierluigi, Valente Giuseppe, Mancone Stefania, Grambone Angela
Department of Human Sciences, Society and Health, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jun 22;11:1421. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01421. eCollection 2020.
People will typically develop a communication style that tends to be coherent with their own fundamental personality traits. The current debate on communication style acknowledges the construct of adaptive behavior as an appropriate area where to include both the strictly personal aspects and social learning and cultural assimilation, which translate into communicative style as a specific form of adaptation integrating the behavioral and personality perspectives. Due to the lack of instruments in the Italian psychometric scenario to assess communication styles, the present study included the translation and validation of the Italian short version of the (CSI-B/I).
The CSI-B/I was administered to a sample of 1,044 participants, while the concurrent validity was tested through a second administration to 518 participants along with the MPP ().
Confirmatory factor analysis bore out a three-factor solution (including 18 items) with good indices of adaptation to data, e.g., χ2/df = 1.251, RMSEA = 0.027, RMSEA 90% CI = 0.008-0.040, GFI = 0.958, AGFI = 0.937, CFI = 0.983 and NFI = 0.922. The CSI-B/I allows to measure three main dimensions of the communication style: impression manipulativeness; emotionality; expressiveness. Internal consistency reliability and significant correlations with the MPP supported the concurrent validity of the tool.
By virtue of its good psychometric properties, CSI-B/I represents an important addition to the assessment in multiple contexts: companies, institutions, staff selection, individual and group profile analysis, coaching, psychotherapy, counseling, career guidance.
人们通常会形成一种与自身基本人格特质相一致的沟通风格。当前关于沟通风格的辩论承认适应性行为这一概念是一个合适的领域，其中既包括严格意义上的个人方面，也包括社会学习和文化同化，这些会转化为作为一种整合行为和人格视角的特定适应形式的沟通风格。由于意大利心理测量领域缺乏评估沟通风格的工具，本研究纳入了对意大利语简短版（CSI - B/I）的翻译和验证。
对1044名参与者的样本进行了CSI - B/I测试，同时通过对518名参与者再次进行测试并与MPP（）一起进行，来检验同时效度。
验证性因素分析证实了一个三因素解决方案（包括18个项目），具有良好的数据适配指标，例如，χ2/df = 1.251，RMSEA = 0.027，RMSEA 90%置信区间 = 0.008 - 0.040，GFI = 0.958，AGFI = 0.937，CFI = 0.983，NFI = 0.922。CSI - B/I能够测量沟通风格的三个主要维度：印象操纵性；情绪性；表达性。内部一致性信度以及与MPP的显著相关性支持了该工具的同时效度。
凭借其良好的心理测量特性，CSI - B/I在多种情境的评估中是一项重要补充：公司、机构、员工选拔、个人和团体概况分析、辅导、心理治疗、咨询、职业指导。
