Unfolding narrative meaning over time: The contributions of mother–daughter conversations of difficulty on daughter narrative sense-making and well-being

Horstman, Haley Kranstuber; Maliski, Ryan; Hays, Alexie; Cox, Joy; Enderle, Amy; Nelson, Leslie R.

doi:10.1080/03637751.2015.1068945

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“…We argue that communicated perspective-taking can be conceptualized as one form of compassionate communication at the intersections of empathic, active, dialogic, and compassionate listening. CPT focuses on nonverbal immediacy, verbal responses, and other-centered orientation, and has manifested in research as a compassionate response to stories of difficulty (see Horstman et al, 2016;Koenig Kellas et al, 2010). Beyond the verbal and nonverbal behaviors that signal effective listening, individuals recognize CPT through communication behaviors that convey mutual understanding, meaning-making, confirmation of identity, and coordination with the other person (see Koenig .…”

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“…Research has identified links between CPT and family functioning, perceptions of family supportiveness (Trees & Koenig Kellas, 2009), the positivity of one's own narrative framing (Horstman et al, 2016), and husbands' mental health (Koenig Kellas et al, 2010). This research informed the creation of an other-report survey measure of CPT (OCPT) which has been used to assess friends' perceptions of each other during storytelling interactions (Koenig Kellas et al, 2015) and spouse's marital satisfaction and affect in the context of miscarriage (Horstman & Holman, 2017).…”

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“…In order to make sense of difficulty, trauma, and stress, people tell stories. Storytelling helps us make sense, gain a feeling of control, achieve catharsis, seek social support, and confirm our identities (Horstman et al, 2016;Weber et al, 1987). Research also suggests that the benefits of interpersonally disclosing difficulty depends on the responses of those who listen.…”

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Communicated perspective-taking (CPT) and storylistening: Testing the impact of CPT in the context of friends telling stories of difficulty

Kellas

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Grounded in communicated narrative sense-making theory (CNSM), the purpose of the current study was to test the effects of storylisteners’ communicated perspective taking (CPT) on storytellers’ well-being and evaluations of storylisteners’ communication skills in the context of telling stories about difficulty. Pairs of friends ( n = 37) engaged in a storytelling interaction in which one person told a story of a difficult life experience (DLE). Listeners’ CPT was rated by observers using the Communicated Perspective-Taking Rating System (CPTRS) and tellers reported on listeners’ behaviors and their own psychosocial health. Results indicate that observed CPT relates positively to tellers’ perceptions of listeners’ communication competence and CPT, and negatively to listeners’ perceived face threat. Particularly important were the identity validation, agreement, and affective tone dimensions of the CPTRS. The links between observed CPT and communication skills were moderated by the degree to which the DLE was considered upsetting, significant, and based on how often the DLE story had been told. Despite previous research, observed CPT was not related to psychosocial health in the current study.

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Communicated perspective-taking (CPT) and storylistening: Testing the impact of CPT in the context of friends telling stories of difficulty

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…Within narrative theorizing, sense-making can be divided into two pathways: individual sense-making (Horstman, Maliski, Hays, Cox, Enderle, & Nelson, 2015) and communicated sense-making (CSM). Individual sense-making is the act of cognitively constructing a personal narrative around a meaningful event (Koenig Kellas, 2014).…”

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Communicated perspective-taking intervention : a social pathway to stress management

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Stress is a ubiquitous phenomenon, but left unaddressed can become a health risk. There is an opportunity for interpersonal communication researchers to develop interventions to help individuals manage stress and thus improve their health. The present dissertation tests the effects of a communicated perspective-taking (CPT) intervention on relational, mental, and physical health. CPT is the process of verbally and nonverbally expressing that one is "walking in another person's shoes." The experimental design employed in the current study randomly assigned participants to either tell or listen to a story about a difficult experience. The listener was randomly presented with instructions to display either a high or a low level of CPT. Results of the study provided support for the effectiveness of the intervention to change the presence of CPT in the interaction. Additional support was demonstrated for the relationship between CPT and psychological and social health. Finally, the present study provides initial evidence for a positive relationship between CPT and physical health, as measured by heart rate and heart rate variability. Specifically, listeners in the high-CPT condition had a significant sympathetic response at the start of the interaction and a significant parasympathetic response during the recovery period, compared to the low-CPT condition. First, engaging in an initial interaction with a person sharing a recent stressful event is stressful for a listener. Second, a listener who enacts a high level of CPT will have a significant stress recovery from the interaction, compared to listeners who enact a low level of CPT. This study advances CPT theorizing by being the first known study to identify a link with physical health. Furthermore, the evidence presents a CPT intervention design that can cause significant improvements in a person's relational, mental, and physical health. In short, a listener who expresses messages that indicate to a recipient that his/her perspective is actively being attended to and confirmed will experience positive health outcomes. Theoretical implications for these findings lie in their potential to advance communicated sensemaking theorizing into physical health outcomes. Practical implications exist in the potential for creating and implementing CPT interventions designed to improve individuals' and couples' relational, mental, and physical health.

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“…For example, when SGM offspring engaged in communicated perspective taking (CPT) -or the process of acknowledging and confirming another's point of view -during their coming out to their parents, parents were more likely to express support of their child's SGM identity and have positive affect towards their child's coming out (Butauski & Horstman, 2018). Engaging in CPT when coming out to parents and discussing one's SGM identity is helpful to parents, yet it is important to recognize that engaging in CPT can be tolling (Horstman et al, 2016). Although it may be tolling, it could be essential in helping parents grow to understand their SGM identity and ameliorating intergroup salience.…”

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Assessing perceptions of parents' communication accommodation in relation to sexual and gender minority adult chidren's child-parent communication apprehension and mental health

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Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals, or people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary, or any other self-identified sexual orientation or gender identity, deal with chronic minority stress, which is associated with negative mental health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation (Medley et al., 2016; Meyer, 2003). Part of the chronic minority stressed faced by this population stems from a lack of support in their parent-child relationships (Heatherington and Lavner, 2008; Savin-Williams, 2001, 2005). The present dissertation brought attention to the inherently intergroup nature of SGM offspring's parent-child relationships by examining how SGM adult children's parent-child communication relates to their mental health, assessed by their rates of depression and anxiety, respectively. Guided by intergroup theorizing and communication accommodation theory, the present study investigated how SGM adult children's perceptions of their parents' accommodative communication behaviors "respect for divergent values and SGM identity support" related to SGM adult children's experiences of child-parent communication apprehension (CPCA), and in turn, their mental health. Parents' accommodative communication promoted more supportive, open communication environments characterized by lower levels of CPCA, which in turn promoted more positive mental health outcomes. Results demonstrated that higher levels of CPCA were associated with higher rates of epression among SGM adult children. Results highlighted the importance of respect for divergent values and identity support in creating healthy communication environments in close intergroup family relationships and fostering individual mental health outcomes. Findings shed light on how SGM adult children's parent-child communication relates to their mental health and contribute to a growing body of research examining close intergroup family relationships.

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Unfolding narrative meaning over time: The contributions of mother–daughter conversations of difficulty on daughter narrative sense-making and well-being

Cited by 24 publications

References 30 publications

Communicated perspective-taking (CPT) and storylistening: Testing the impact of CPT in the context of friends telling stories of difficulty

Communicated perspective-taking (CPT) and storylistening: Testing the impact of CPT in the context of friends telling stories of difficulty

Communicated perspective-taking intervention : a social pathway to stress management

Assessing perceptions of parents' communication accommodation in relation to sexual and gender minority adult chidren's child-parent communication apprehension and mental health

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