Gender Differences in Family Dinnertime Conversations

Merrill, Natalie; Gallo, Emily; Fıvush, Robyn

doi:10.1080/0163853x.2014.958425

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“…Only one story about the mother and three stories about fathers were told by another family member across all three samples. Although previous research has suggested that mothers play a greater role than fathers in family reminiscing and passing down family history (Merrill et al., ; Rosenthal, ), this finding suggests that fathers are engaged in sharing their own stories with their children. Still, it is possible that in terms of actual frequency of everyday storytelling, gender differences may be observed.…”

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“…Through the transmission of oral history, individuals share knowledge that provides an understanding of the commonalities that grant individuals a share in group identity (Assman, ). Storytelling is one way that family members touch base about the daily events in each other's lives and pass down the memory of experiences from the more distant past (Bohanek et al., ; Merrill, Gallo, & Fivush, ). Intergenerational narratives are a common feature of everyday family conversation in which developing individuals learn personal and cultural narratives (Fivush, Habermas, Waters, & Zaman, ; Fivush & Merrill, ; McLean, ).…”

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Functions of Parental Intergenerational Narratives Told by Young People

Merrill

Booker

Fıvush

2018

Topics in Cognitive Science

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Family stories help shape identity and provide a foundation for navigating life events during adolescence and early adulthood. However, little research examines the types of stories passed onto adolescents and emerging adults, the extent to which these stories are retained and accessible, and the potentially influential parental- and self-identity content constructed in telling these stories. Across three samples, we investigate the accessibility and functions of intergenerational narratives that adolescents and emerging adults know of their parents. By examining adolescents' open-ended intergenerational stories, emerging adults' intergenerational stories of parents' transgression and proud moments, and emerging adults' intergenerational stories of parents' self-defining moments, we systematically describe the functions of various intergenerational stories during adolescence and early adulthood, when identity is in formation. We found that adolescents and emerging adults can readily recount intergenerational stories from parents, and that many of these stories serve to build relationships with the parent, provide insights about parents, provide insights about self, and transmit life lessons. The specific findings by narrative topic and by gender of both participant and parent are discussed.

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Functions of Parental Intergenerational Narratives Told by Young People

Merrill

Booker

Fıvush

2018

Topics in Cognitive Science

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“…If found, this may reflect more general consistency in narrative storytelling, but we further expect relations to be stronger for participants' same‐gender parent. Some research suggests that daughters may be particularly likely to show similar narrative styles to their mothers, both in terms of general narrative style (Merrill, Gallo, & Fivush, ) and in how they tell stories about a specific experience of the daughter (Peterson & Roberts, ). There is little evidence that sons show similar narrative styles to either parent.…”

Section: Intergenerational Narratives and Gendermentioning

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Personal and Intergenerational Narratives of Transgression and Pride in Emerging Adulthood: Links to Gender and Well‐Being

Merrill

Srinivas

Fıvush

2016

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Intergenerational narratives, stories parents share with children about their own youthful experiences, may facilitate the understanding of challenging life experiences and be related to psychological well-being; yet, little research has examined what young people know of their parents' self-challenging and self-enhancing experiences and how they interpret them. Research examining intergenerational narratives has observed relations between adolescents' narratives and their psychological well-being, but these relations may depend upon gender and narrative type. In the current study, 94 college students provided intergenerational and personal narratives of transgression and pride experiences. Narratives were coded for emotional, cognitive, and evaluative content. Results show that transgression and pride narratives differed in content, and that women provided more interpretative content than men. Stories about mothers contained more interpretative content than fathers, but this pattern varied by participant gender. Finally, relations to well-being were observed, especially for cognitive content in stories of participants' same-gender parent.

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“…It becomes manifest in, for example, the capacity to obtain and retain the conversational floor, express knowledge or opinions, or disagree with another speaker (Merrill et al. ). These skills are inherently vulnerable in people with aphasia, threatening their opportunities to be active, competent conversation partners and, more generally, their social participation, dramatically disrupting everyday life (Code and Herrmann ).…”

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“…Conversational assertiveness refers to 'the capacity to make requests; to actively disagree; to express positive or negative personal rights and feelings; to initiate, maintain, or disengage from conversations; and to stand up for oneself without attacking another' (Richmond and McCroskey 1985: 92). It becomes manifest in, for example, the capacity to obtain and retain the conversational floor, express knowledge or opinions, or disagree with another speaker (Merrill et al 2015). These skills are inherently vulnerable in people with aphasia, threatening their opportunities to be active, competent conversation partners and, more generally, their social participation, dramatically disrupting everyday life (Code and Herrmann 2003).…”

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The effects of enactment on communicative competence in aphasic casual conversation: a functional linguistic perspective

Groenewold

Armstrong

2018

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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BackgroundPrevious research has shown that speakers with aphasia rely on enactment more often than non‐brain‐damaged language users. Several studies have been conducted to explain this observed increase, demonstrating that spoken language containing enactment is easier to produce and is more engaging to the conversation partner. This paper describes the effects of the occurrence of enactment in casual conversation involving individuals with aphasia on its level of conversational assertiveness.AimsTo evaluate whether and to what extent the occurrence of enactment in speech of individuals with aphasia contributes to its conversational assertiveness.Methods & ProceduresConversations between a speaker with aphasia and his wife (drawn from AphasiaBank) were analysed in several steps. First, the transcripts were divided into moves, and all moves were coded according to the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) framework. Next, all moves were labelled in terms of their level of conversational assertiveness, as defined in the previous literature. Finally, all enactments were identified and their level of conversational assertiveness was compared with that of non‐enactments.Outcomes & ResultsThroughout their conversations, the non‐brain‐damaged speaker was more assertive than the speaker with aphasia. However, the speaker with aphasia produced more enactments than the non‐brain‐damaged speaker. The moves of the speaker with aphasia containing enactment were more assertive than those without enactment.Conclusions & ImplicationsThe use of enactment in the conversations under study positively affected the level of conversational assertiveness of the speaker with aphasia, a competence that is important for speakers with aphasia because it contributes to their floor time, chances to be heard seriously and degree of control over the conversation topic.

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Gender Differences in Family Dinnertime Conversations

Cited by 43 publications

References 55 publications

Functions of Parental Intergenerational Narratives Told by Young People

Functions of Parental Intergenerational Narratives Told by Young People

Personal and Intergenerational Narratives of Transgression and Pride in Emerging Adulthood: Links to Gender and Well‐Being

The effects of enactment on communicative competence in aphasic casual conversation: a functional linguistic perspective

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