Relationship to argumentativeness to age and higher education
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a cross-sectional study (N = 639) of trait argumentativeness as a function of age and higher education, and test hypotheses based on physiological, cultural, and developmental perspectives. Argumentativeness associates negatively with age and positively with level of higher education. Optimal scaling shows that the age-related argumentativeness decrease among men is greatest through the twenties and levels off around age forty-five. By contrast, the decrease among women begins slowly around age thirty and accelerates through the fifties. The education effect is stronger among men than women, and neither the age nor education effects are significant in a high-argumentative subsample (median split).
Communication traits comprise an important part of communication theory, yet, little is known about either their longitudinal stability over the life course or their cross-sectional uniformity in the adult population. We report
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