Extending the 'Speech Evaluation Instrument' to Public Speaking Settings

The empirical development of the normative message processing scale

“…Self perceptions of speech dynamism, attractiveness, competence, and status were assessed with Gundersen and Perrill's (1989) adaptation of Zahn and Hopper's (1985) Speech Evaluation Instrument. Some degree of perceived speech competence; may be positively correlated with message processing tendencies as measured by the Analytical factor.…”