Data from 140 undergraduate students indicated that 16 of the 25 affinity-seeking strategies examined here were associated with ratings of the global impression of satisfaction with communication in the classroom. Six affinity-seeking strategies, however, contributed unique variance in predicting perceptions of the satisfaction.
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