COMMUNICATION FACTORS RELATED TO CLOSER INTERNATIONAL TIES |
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| Authors: | J DAVID JOHNSON ALBERT R TIMS |
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| Institution: | 1. J. David Johnson (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1978) is associate professor of communication at State University of New York—Buffalo;2. Albert R. Tims (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1982) is an assistant professor of telecommunication at Indiana University, Bloomington. |
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| Abstract: | The question of what promotes closer ties between nations has long been central to the study of intercultural communication. This research develops and tests a model that specifies three factors drawn from social distance and systems perspectives that are posited to have an influence on the desire for closer ties between the U.S. and Mexico. Each of the factors, perceptions of homophily, shared interests, and threats, have previously been identified as occupying central positions in the development of international relationships. The sample used to test the model was drawn from eight elite occupational groups within Mexican urban centers (N = 800). The results were supportive of the model, with quite acceptable goodness of fit measures, with a high level of variance accounted for in the dependent variable, and with support for the paths between exogenous and endogenous variables as predicted in the model. |
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