Before revision: STOPS was proposed to improve four limitations of STP: STP considered only information acquisition as a concept of active communication behaviors The predictive power of referent criterion variable has been unclear throughout the development of STP Only few antecedents of communication behavior were considered STP was underutilized because of the narrow concept of information behaviors Alterations in existed variables (problem recognition, constraint recognition, involvement recognition, and reference criterion) were done to explain communicative action in problem solving variable.
After revision: STOPS was proposed to overcome four limitations of STP: STP considered only information acquisition as a concept of active communication behaviors The predictive power of referent criterion variable has been unclear throughout the development of STP Only few antecedents of communication behavior were considered STP was underutilized because of the narrow concept of information behaviors Alterations in existed variables (problem recognition, constraint recognition, involvement recognition, and reference criterion) were done to explain communicative action in problem solving variable.