A Study on the Communication Styles of the Husbands and Wives in Korea

한국남편과 부인들의 커뮤니케이션 유형 분류에 대한 연구 - 서울시 주거 남편과 부 인들을 대상으로-

The purpose of this study was to classify the communication styles of the husbands and wives in Korea. The instrument of this study was questionnaire which was made through the three times' pre-research by the researcher. In the pre-research, husbands and wives were asked what were the communication styles in their daily life. Among the gathered data 55 items were chosen by the frequency of the communication styles. The subjects were 240 husbands and 264 wives who lives in Seoul. In this study the following questions were examined. 1) What are the communication styles of the husbands? 2) What are the communication styles of the wives? The data were analyzed by the method described below with SAS and SPSS computer programs. 1) To find out general character of the subjects, frequency distribution and frequency percentage should be computed. 2) To analyze items of the scale, mean standard deviation, and relative frequency distribution of the respective items should be computed. 3) To extract factor of the respective group, the procedure of factor analysis should be applied. 4) To verify the reliability of the respective factor, Cronakch's α should be computed. 5) To notice the differences in background variables, the analysis variance should be computed. The conclusions derived from the findings were as follows: 1) The communication styles of the husbands group were categorized into authoritarian style, contactful style, sincere style, speculative, speculative style, other-oriented style. 2) The communication styles of th wives group were categorized into authoritarian style. sincere style, other-oriented style, sacrifice style, speculative style.