Examining the Construct Validity of Enacted Support: A Multitrait–Multimethod Analysis of Three Perspectives for Judging Immediacy and Listening Behaviors

Bodie, Graham D.; Jones, Susanne M.; Vickery, Andrea J.; Hatcher, Laura C.; Cannava, Kaitlin

doi:10.1080/03637751.2014.957223

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“…Yet, attempting to define listening with very concrete behaviors may fail to truly capture the experience of the speaker. For example, a measure based on actual listening behaviors, such as eye contact, is only modestly correlated with the speaker's experience of being listened to (Bodie, Jones, Vickery, Hatcher, & Cannava, ). Moreover, “active listening”—a set of concrete behaviors including reflections of content and emotion—was found to sometimes be perceived as manipulative in the business setting (Tyler, ), and it showed no effect on marital quality (Gottman, Coan, Carrere, & Swanson, ).…”

Section: Listeningmentioning

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Does avoidance‐attachment style attenuate the benefits of being listened to?

Castro

Kluger

2016

Euro J Social Psych

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We tested both Rogers's hypothesis that listening enables speakers to experience psychological safety and our hypothesis that the benefit of listening for psychological safety is attenuated by avoidance‐attachment style. We tested these hypotheses in six laboratory experiments, a field correlational study, and a scenario experiment. We meta‐analyzed the results of the laboratory experiments and found that listening increased psychological safety on average but that the variance between the experiments was also significant. The between experiment variance in the effect of listening manipulation on psychological safety exposes a methodological challenge in choosing a research paradigm of good‐versus‐normal listening, as opposed to normal‐versus‐poor listening. More importantly, we found, as expected and across all designs, that the higher the avoidance‐attachment style was, the lower the effect of listening on psychological safety. This finding has implications both for practice and for placing a theoretical boundary on Rogers's theory.

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Section: Listeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does avoidance‐attachment style attenuate the benefits of being listened to?

Castro

Kluger

2016

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Support provider and receiver accounts of supportive exchanges are far from isomorphic (Bodie, Jones, Vickery, Hatcher, & Cannava, ; Bolger et al, ). Bodie et al () found that support providers, receivers, and third‐party observers each evaluate the same interaction differently. To be consistent with research that urges scholars to consider “multiple perspectives of evaluation,” this study considered support providers and third‐party observers as separate perspectives against which receivers' evaluations can be compared (Goldsmith, , p. 161).…”

Section: An Invisible Support Account For the Durable Effects Of Suppmentioning

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“…A second limitation is a lack of clarity concerning how to index enacted support, independent of its visibility to a receiver. Support provider and receiver accounts of supportive exchanges are far from isomorphic (Bodie, Jones, Vickery, Hatcher, & Cannava, 2014;Bolger et al, 2000). Bodie et al (2014) found that support providers, receivers, and third-party observers each evaluate the same interaction differently.…”

Section: An Invisible Support Account For the Durable Effects Of Suppmentioning

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Explaining the Durable Effects of Verbal Person-Centered Supportive Communication: Indirect Effects or Invisible Support?

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Solomon

2016

Hum Commun Res

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Researchers have documented benefits from receiving supportive messages high in verbal person‐centeredness (VPC), but the processes through which such messages produce longitudinal effects remain unclear. This study evaluated two perspectives (i.e., indirect effects and invisible support) that address how supportive messages can produce durable effects and tested sex differences in those effects. 255 dyads completed a laboratory‐based interaction in which level of VPC and sex of the support provider were manipulated. 3 weeks later, support receivers evaluated the conversations and their stressor. Variations in VPC produced durable effects both when messages were positively evaluated initially and when they were evaluated as supportive by providers or third‐party observers but judged low in supportiveness by receivers. Provider sex moderated the results.

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“…Coders then identified which level of message VPC was most prevalent in the exchanges. Although message VPC has traditionally been studied at a message level (rather than a conversation level), recent research has expanded examinations of message VPC by examining entire conversations (Bodie, Jones, Vickery, Hatcher, & Cannava, 2014; High & Solomon, 2014). As such, coders rated each conversation as a whole rather than breaking them down into smaller units.…”

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Faw

2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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The social, economic, and physical costs associated with providing long-term care for a child with disabilities can be overwhelming, and it is not uncommon for caregivers to experience burnout, emotional distress, and significant health ailments as a result of their commitment to their child. Social support can be a key resource to combat these negative effects, as ample research has shown that social support can act as a buffer to the negative effects of stress. The current study explored whether short-term supportive interactions between parents of children with disabilities and members of their supportive network (n = 40 dyads) influenced the physiological stress responses (as measured by salivary cortisol) of both interactants. Results indicated that receiving support in a short interaction resulted in parents experiencing decreases to their physiological stress, though the quality of the support played a key role in determining how beneficial the interaction was in this context. These results suggest the importance of considering support quality when examining the influence of social support on physical outcomes for support recipients.

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Examining the Construct Validity of Enacted Support: A Multitrait–Multimethod Analysis of Three Perspectives for Judging Immediacy and Listening Behaviors

Cited by 44 publications

References 63 publications

Does avoidance‐attachment style attenuate the benefits of being listened to?

Does avoidance‐attachment style attenuate the benefits of being listened to?

Explaining the Durable Effects of Verbal Person-Centered Supportive Communication: Indirect Effects or Invisible Support?

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