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Tom 11 Nr 1: Spring 2018

The purposes of interpersonal communication: A survey to find the most likely general reasons why people engage in communication

  • Mikael Jensen
DOI
https://doi.org/10.19195/1899-5101.11.1(20).2
Przesłane
marca 29, 2018
Opublikowane
2018-03-29

Abstrakt

The purpose underlying this paper is to find out what purposes/functions people from a diverse background assess to be more important and central to human interpersonal communication. A list of 17 possible purposes and functions of interpersonal communication was derived from a literature review and used in a survey study. The questionnaire was filled out by 313 participants international students being in Sweden from diverse cultural backgrounds. The findings from this study suggest that the participants acknowledge very central aspects of human life to be the reason for communicating. The most agreed upon reasons why we communicate is to share and enhance enjoyment share positive emotions and to create and strengthen social bonds manage relationships.