Instructor Active Empathic Listening And Classroom Incivility

Abstract

Instructor listening skill is an understudied area in instructional communication research. This study looks at teachers’ active empathic listening behavior association with student incivility. Scholars recognize student incivility as a growing problem and have called for research that identifies classroom behaviors that can affect classroom climate. A total of N = 434 undergraduate students were surveyed about their observations of student incivility in their classes, their perceptions of their instructor’s use of active empathic listening and nonverbal involvement, class size, instructor gender, and estimated instructor age. After controlling for nonverbal involvement, instructor age, instructor gender, and class size, results suggest active empathic listening associates negatively with three types of classroom incivility. Both class size and instructor nonverbal immediacy also emerged as predictors of student incivility.

Publication Date

1-2-2018

Publication Title

International Journal of Listening

Volume

32

Issue

1

Number of Pages

49-64

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2017.1289091

Socpus ID

85020444406 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85020444406

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