The Relationship Between Instructor Job Satisfaction and Communicator Style and Socio-Communicative Orientation

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between instructors’ job satisfaction and perceptions of their own communicator style and socio-communicative orientation. Participants were 122 instructors from 51 academic units at a large Mid-Atlantic university. It was found that instructors’ self-reports of their job satisfaction were positively related to their use of the impression-leaving communicator style attribute, the relaxed communicator style attribute, the attentive communicator style attribute, the open communicator style attribute, and the responsive socio-communicative orientation dimension.