ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors name some of the measures that focus on personal communication characteristics and then briefly identify some of the more prominent coding/rating systems used to code interaction. They identifies and discusses some measurement issues relevant to interpersonal communication as well as issues that they faced in evaluating and classifying the instruments used in this discipline. Personal qualities include measures that assess personality or social predispositions or tendencies, or report behaviors. Social relationships measures attempt to tap qualities of relationships in dyadic, marital, and group settings. Numerous coding/rating systems have been developed in interpersonal communication in areas such as nonverbal communication, confirmation, interaction strategies, and group interaction. Interpersonal communication research could benefit from multiple measurement methods and collection periods. One additional concern in research circles today is the selection procedure some measures use to identify communication strategies.
