An Empirical Assessment of the Communication Components Inventory

Abstract

This article attempts to demonstrate the psychometric properties and evidence of validity for a measure recently proposed in this journal, the Communication Components Inventory (CCI). Across two studies, a total of 903 undergraduate students completed one of the two response formats—dichotomous and scaled—of the CCI and the Multiple Intelligence scale. The dichotomous response format poorly represented the data, as did the scaled response format. However, because of the latter’s superior reliability estimates it was chosen for refinement. Through the use of confirmatory factor analysis, the revised CCI replicated the data accurately. In both data samples, bivariate correlations between the Revised-Communication Components Inventory and a measure of learning styles were moderate to large, providing initial validity evidence for an important construct to counselors and their clients.