Predicting Comforting Quality in the Context of Miscarriage

MacGeorge, Erina L.; Wilkum, Kristi

doi:10.1080/08934215.2012.719463

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“…As shown in Table 4, the interactions represented every level of person centeredness. The percentage of interactions coded at each level is similar to those reported in prior studies of briefer, written support messages (MacGeorge et al, 2003; MacGeorge & Wilkum, 2012). Support providers focused their talk primarily on the recipients’ situations, emotions, and actions, followed by their own situations, emotions, and actions.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Thus, we could not assess the impact of any of these unit types on VPC. Possibly, minimization and criticism were infrequent in our interactions because the message recipient was immediately present (as opposed to studies where messages are written, e.g., MacGeorge & Wilkum, 2012). Affirmations were likely infrequent because they were only coded when recipients made direct disclosures of their own emotions that were then affirmed by providers—and these kinds of recipient statements were themselves rare.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Verbal Person Centeredness in Interaction: Connecting Micro- and Macro-Level Operationalization

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Carlson-Hill

et al. 2018

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Verbal person centeredness (VPC) is a long-dominant conceptualization of quality in supportive communication, but prior work provides limited guidance for researchers seeking to examine its impact in interaction. This study examined the extent to which overall VPC for an interaction is predicted by support providers’ specific behaviors. In a laboratory setting, pairs of friends (320 dyads) discussed a problem that one of them was currently experiencing. Transcripts of these interactions were coded by separate research teams for overall VPC of support provision and for the topic, function, and experiential focus of each discrete thought-unit produced by the support provider. Regression analyses showed that VPC was predicted by units representing specific, theoretically interpretable combinations of topical, functional, and experiential focus. The findings provide evidence of validity for procedures used to code VPC for supportive interactions while also displaying ways in which person centeredness is accomplished somewhat differently in interaction than in discrete messages.

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Verbal Person Centeredness in Interaction: Connecting Micro- and Macro-Level Operationalization

MacGeorge

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Carlson-Hill

et al. 2018

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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“…As shown in Table 1, the interactions represented every level of person centeredness with the exception of Level 1. The percentage of interactions coded at each level is similar to those reported in prior studies of briefer, written support messages, with the largest numbers of messages coded as moderately person-centered, and smaller numbers of messages coded as low or highly personcentered (MacGeorge et al, 2003;MacGeorge & Wilkum, 2012). Speaker challenges the legitimacy of the other's feelings.…”

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confidence: 68%

The Influence of Emotional Support Quality on Advice Evaluation and Outcomes

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Guntzviller

Brisini

et al. 2016

Communication Quarterly

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“…Because of the taboo nature of infertility and the predominant cultural view that sexual and reproductive health is a matter of privacy, individuals often struggle to talk about infertility in socially appropriate ways (MacGeorge & Wilkum, 2012). Individuals report feeling frustration, awkwardness, discomfort, and tension, which often results in topic avoidance and a feeling of social isolation (Hinton, Kurinczuk, & Ziebland, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%