Publication Date
2020
Document Type
Dissertation/Thesis
First Advisor
Scudder, Joseph
Degree Name
M.A. (Master of Arts)
Legacy Department
Department of Communication
Abstract
Social support in the classroom is an under-researched area of instructional
communication literature. Cutrona and Russell’s (1990) five dimensions of social support were
used as a framework to investigate peer social support. Those five dimensions were expected to
predict engagement, classroom participation behavior, attitude towards attending class, and
identification with the university. Participants (n=222) were asked to respond to measures that
were developed to assess the five social support types and the four criterion variables. All the
types of social support were found to be positively correlated with the criterion variables when
the zero-order correlations were examined. It was also found that esteem support and recognition
were the two significant predictors contributing significant unique variance when multiple
regression analyses were performed for all four criterion variables.
Recommended Citation
Debeck, Dennis Paul, "Peer Social Support in the Classroom" (2020). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 6968.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allgraduate-thesesdissertations/6968
Extent
58 pages
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University
Rights Statement
In Copyright
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