Social perspective‐taking ability, cognitive complexity and listener‐adapted communication in early and late adolescence

Ritter, Ellen M.

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“…Significant associations have also been found between several demographic characteristics (e.g., sex, age, socioeconomic status) and comforting skill (see Applegate, Burke, Burleson, Delia, & Kline, 1985;Burleson, 1982). In addition to these individual-difference variables, such situational factors as relational involvement (e.g., Ritter, 1979), cost of helping (e.g., Grodman, 1979), and organismic states of the speaker (e.g., Applegate, 1980) affect a person's comforting efforts.…”

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Comforting conversations: The effects of strategy type on evaluations of messages and message producers

Samter

Burleson

Murphy

1987

Southern Speech Communication Journal

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Comforting conversations: The effects of strategy type on evaluations of messages and message producers

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Murphy

1987

Southern Speech Communication Journal

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“…Children at these ages may also try to distract their distressed peers (changing the subject or otherwise diverting attention from the problem) (Burleson, 1982;Denton & Zarbatany, 1996;Dooley, Whalen, & Flowers, 1978;Eisenberg, Fabes, Karbon, & Murphy, 1996;Hoffner & Haefner, 1997;McCoy & Masters, 1985;Ritter, 1979;Rose & Asher, 2004 (McCoy & Masters, 1985). Furthermore, research focused on the influence of expressive behaviours to change others' feelings (i.e., smiling) has found that older children tend to use this strategy more than younger children (Saarni, 1992).…”

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Developmental differences in children’s interpersonal emotion regulation

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“…We mention this because of recent criticisms of the constructivist hierarchical approach to message analysis, and because the designs of the two studies reported below might be confused as attempts to assess representational validity. Constfuctivist researchers have developed and employed several different hierarchical coding systems in studies of persuasive communication (Clark & Delia, 1976;, listener-adapted communication (Delia & Clark, 1977), regulative communication (Applegate, 1980a;Applegate, Burke, Burleson, Delia & Kline, in press), and comforting communication (Applegate, 1978;Burleson, 1982a;Ritter, 1979). Each of these coding systems has sought to position messages for the degree to which the perspective of the listener is represented and adapted to (see Clark & Delia, 1979;.…”

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Consistencies in theoretical and naive evaluations of comforting messages

Burleson

Samter

1985

Communication Monographs

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Prior research on comforting communication from the constructivist perspective has employed a hierarchical system of message analysis to classify different comforting strategies; within this system, messages are scored for the extent to which they explicitly acknowledge, elaborate, and legitimize the feelings of distressed others. The present paper reports two studies assessing the extent to which naive actors' perceptions of comforting strategy sensitivity, effectiveness, and quality correspond with the formal analysis of comforting strategy sophistication embedded in the constructivist hierarchical coding scheme. In the first study, 73 female college students interacted with a female confederate who feigned distress over having recently been dropped by her long-term boyfriend. These interactions were videotaped and content analyzed; in addition, both the confederate and an experimental observer rated participants' behaviors for sensitivity. Results indicated that participants employing a greater proportion of theoretically sophisticated comforting strategies were perceived as behaving more sensitively toward the confederate. In the second study, 148 college students were presented with lists of preformulated comforting strategies derived from the constructivist hierarchy and were asked to rate these strategies for "sensitivity" and "effectiveness" and to rank order them in terms of overall quality. Results indicated that respondents rated and rank ordered the strategies in a manner very consistent with the constructivist hierarchical ordering of comforting strategy types: The constructivist ordering of the strategies explained over 95% of the variance in respondents' ratings and rank orderings.

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Social perspective‐taking ability, cognitive complexity and listener‐adapted communication in early and late adolescence

Cited by 51 publications

References 6 publications

Comforting conversations: The effects of strategy type on evaluations of messages and message producers

Comforting conversations: The effects of strategy type on evaluations of messages and message producers

Developmental differences in children’s interpersonal emotion regulation

Consistencies in theoretical and naive evaluations of comforting messages

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