Alan L Sillars
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104383 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan L Sillars |
| NOMBRES | Alan L |
| APELLIDO | Sillars |
| FIRMA | SILLARS A L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Montana |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 310 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Relating
Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics Get access Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics. By Leslie A. Baxter, B. M. Montgomery. New York: Guilford Press, 1996. 285 pp. $18.95 (soft). Alan L. Sillars Alan L. Sillars 1University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 4, December 1997, Pages 199–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcom/47.4.199 Published: 07 February 2006
Marital Communication and the Persistence of Misunderstanding
This research examined spouses' understanding of their partners and the relation of understanding to the amount of communication in marriage. The results showed that spouses overestimated agreement with their partners; therefore, understanding scores were low after response similarity (i.e. agreement) was factored out. Reported communication had a complex relation to understanding. Communication had a slight positive association with wives' under…
Conversational Themes and Marital Relationship Definitions Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations
This article examines relationship themes in the conversations of 52 married couples and suggests that implicit aspects of relationship definition are reflected, first, in the content of discussion themes and, second, in the way that different themes are integrated. As expected, "communal" themes (concerning togetherness, cooperation, and communication) were expressed more frequently and individual themes (concerning personality and individual di…
Life-Stage Differences in Communication During Marital Conflicts
Conversations involving young, middle-aged and retired married couples were analyzed to shed light on the characteristics of communication within older marriages. The research indicated that retired couples were the least analytic and most non-committal in their remarks. Generally, retired couples rated marital problems as non-salient and their conversations were non-conflictive. However, those among the retired group who perceived salient, unres…
A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication
Despite the persistence of sex‐typed images of the expressivity of wife and husband, past observational studies have given little indication of sex‐linked differences in marital communication. Thus, we proposed that inter personally negotiated role expectations would be a better predictor of communication about marital conflict than sex. However, we also proposed that there might be sex differences within particular clusters of couples who endors…
Content Themes in Marital Conversations
Conversational themes can be viewed as a form of met communication about relationships. We suggest that the prominent themes in the conversations of spouses identify factors assumed to have an important effect on the relationship. Further, different ways of looking at marriage are reflected in the use of particular content themes. A typology of content themes was derived from transcripts of conversations and the typology was used to code the disc…
Reciprocity of Marital Communication
The discussions of seventy-three married couples were analysed for sequential and distributional patterns of paralinguistic affect and verbal conflict. The paralinguistic analyses supported behavioural skills approaches to marital communication: on highly salient topics, less satisfied couples had greater negative reciprocity than more satisfied couples. However, the verbal communication results were inconsistent with prevailing assumptions about…
Communication and Understanding in Marriage
Two studies are reported in which audiotape contestations of married couples were analyzed. A total of 82 couples were involved. The research considered how understanding of feelings is related to verbal and nonverbal communication. Paraling expression of affect was more consistently related to understanding than verbal disclosure. Further, there was a strong tendency for spouses to use their own feelings as a reference for predicting their partn…
Interpersonal Perception Between Intimates an Integrative Review
Despite the considerable importance often attributed to interpersonal perception between married partners, family members, and other intimates, there have been few theoretical developments that address the distinctive factors affecting perception in these contexts. This article draws upon a broad literature review to suggest how interpersonal perception between intimates may be affected by such factors as familiarity, emotionality, behavioral int…
Coding Verbal Conflict Tactics
Coding procedures developed by Sillars (1980a) classified statements made during interpersonal conflict into "avoidance,""integrative," and "distributive" categories. In the present paper we present evidence that these distinctions provide an intuitively sound and theoretically meaningful basis for coding communication during conflict. Two studies are reported. In the first study, verbal tactics correlated in the expected ways with observer perce…
Attributions and communication in roommate conflicts
This paper develops a theoretical approach to communication in interpersonal conflict which emphasizes the role of attributional processes. According to this view, communicative decisions in conflict are largely a function of social attributions about the intent, causality, and stability of behaviors in conflict. Factors which bias attributions along these dimensions encourage noncooperative conflict stategies. Predictions from this perspective w…
The Stranger and the Spouse as Target Persons for Compliance-Gaining Strategies
This study examines the use of compliance-gaining message strategies in “interpersonal” versus “noninterpersonal” relationships. Subjects were asked how likely they would be to use persuasive strategies in a hypothetical situation involving either a spouse (interpersonal situation) or new neighbors (noninterpersonal situation). A subjective expected utility model is proposed to account for subjects' choice of strategies. According to the SEU mode…
Interpersonal Perception Between Intimates an Integrative Review
Despite the considerable importance often attributed to interpersonal perception between married partners, family members, and other intimates, there have been few theoretical developments that address the distinctive factors affecting perception in these contexts. This article draws upon a broad literature review to suggest how interpersonal perception between intimates may be affected by such factors as familiarity, emotionality, behavioral int…
Attributions and communication in roommate conflicts
This paper develops a theoretical approach to communication in interpersonal conflict which emphasizes the role of attributional processes. According to this view, communicative decisions in conflict are largely a function of social attributions about the intent, causality, and stability of behaviors in conflict. Factors which bias attributions along these dimensions encourage noncooperative conflict stategies. Predictions from this perspective w…
Coding Verbal Conflict Tactics
Coding procedures developed by Sillars (1980a) classified statements made during interpersonal conflict into "avoidance,""integrative," and "distributive" categories. In the present paper we present evidence that these distinctions provide an intuitively sound and theoretically meaningful basis for coding communication during conflict. Two studies are reported. In the first study, verbal tactics correlated in the expected ways with observer perce…
Communication and Understanding in Marriage
Two studies are reported in which audiotape contestations of married couples were analyzed. A total of 82 couples were involved. The research considered how understanding of feelings is related to verbal and nonverbal communication. Paraling expression of affect was more consistently related to understanding than verbal disclosure. Further, there was a strong tendency for spouses to use their own feelings as a reference for predicting their partn…
The Stranger and the Spouse as Target Persons for Compliance-Gaining Strategies
This study examines the use of compliance-gaining message strategies in “interpersonal” versus “noninterpersonal” relationships. Subjects were asked how likely they would be to use persuasive strategies in a hypothetical situation involving either a spouse (interpersonal situation) or new neighbors (noninterpersonal situation). A subjective expected utility model is proposed to account for subjects' choice of strategies. According to the SEU mode…
Life-Stage Differences in Communication During Marital Conflicts
Conversations involving young, middle-aged and retired married couples were analyzed to shed light on the characteristics of communication within older marriages. The research indicated that retired couples were the least analytic and most non-committal in their remarks. Generally, retired couples rated marital problems as non-salient and their conversations were non-conflictive. However, those among the retired group who perceived salient, unres…
Reciprocity of Marital Communication
The discussions of seventy-three married couples were analysed for sequential and distributional patterns of paralinguistic affect and verbal conflict. The paralinguistic analyses supported behavioural skills approaches to marital communication: on highly salient topics, less satisfied couples had greater negative reciprocity than more satisfied couples. However, the verbal communication results were inconsistent with prevailing assumptions about…
A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication
Despite the persistence of sex‐typed images of the expressivity of wife and husband, past observational studies have given little indication of sex‐linked differences in marital communication. Thus, we proposed that inter personally negotiated role expectations would be a better predictor of communication about marital conflict than sex. However, we also proposed that there might be sex differences within particular clusters of couples who endors…
Content Themes in Marital Conversations
Conversational themes can be viewed as a form of met communication about relationships. We suggest that the prominent themes in the conversations of spouses identify factors assumed to have an important effect on the relationship. Further, different ways of looking at marriage are reflected in the use of particular content themes. A typology of content themes was derived from transcripts of conversations and the typology was used to code the disc…
Marital Communication and the Persistence of Misunderstanding
This research examined spouses' understanding of their partners and the relation of understanding to the amount of communication in marriage. The results showed that spouses overestimated agreement with their partners; therefore, understanding scores were low after response similarity (i.e. agreement) was factored out. Reported communication had a complex relation to understanding. Communication had a slight positive association with wives' under…
Conversational Themes and Marital Relationship Definitions Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations
This article examines relationship themes in the conversations of 52 married couples and suggests that implicit aspects of relationship definition are reflected, first, in the content of discussion themes and, second, in the way that different themes are integrated. As expected, "communal" themes (concerning togetherness, cooperation, and communication) were expressed more frequently and individual themes (concerning personality and individual di…
Attributions and communication in roommate conflicts
This paper develops a theoretical approach to communication in interpersonal conflict which emphasizes the role of attributional processes. According to this view, communicative decisions in conflict are largely a function of social attributions about the intent, causality, and stability of behaviors in conflict. Factors which bias attributions along these dimensions encourage noncooperative conflict stategies. Predictions from this perspective w…
The Stranger and the Spouse as Target Persons for Compliance-Gaining Strategies
This study examines the use of compliance-gaining message strategies in “interpersonal” versus “noninterpersonal” relationships. Subjects were asked how likely they would be to use persuasive strategies in a hypothetical situation involving either a spouse (interpersonal situation) or new neighbors (noninterpersonal situation). A subjective expected utility model is proposed to account for subjects' choice of strategies. According to the SEU mode…
Coding Verbal Conflict Tactics
Coding procedures developed by Sillars (1980a) classified statements made during interpersonal conflict into "avoidance,""integrative," and "distributive" categories. In the present paper we present evidence that these distinctions provide an intuitively sound and theoretically meaningful basis for coding communication during conflict. Two studies are reported. In the first study, verbal tactics correlated in the expected ways with observer perce…
Interpersonal Perception Between Intimates an Integrative Review
Despite the considerable importance often attributed to interpersonal perception between married partners, family members, and other intimates, there have been few theoretical developments that address the distinctive factors affecting perception in these contexts. This article draws upon a broad literature review to suggest how interpersonal perception between intimates may be affected by such factors as familiarity, emotionality, behavioral int…
Communication and Understanding in Marriage
Two studies are reported in which audiotape contestations of married couples were analyzed. A total of 82 couples were involved. The research considered how understanding of feelings is related to verbal and nonverbal communication. Paraling expression of affect was more consistently related to understanding than verbal disclosure. Further, there was a strong tendency for spouses to use their own feelings as a reference for predicting their partn…
Reciprocity of Marital Communication
The discussions of seventy-three married couples were analysed for sequential and distributional patterns of paralinguistic affect and verbal conflict. The paralinguistic analyses supported behavioural skills approaches to marital communication: on highly salient topics, less satisfied couples had greater negative reciprocity than more satisfied couples. However, the verbal communication results were inconsistent with prevailing assumptions about…
A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication
Despite the persistence of sex‐typed images of the expressivity of wife and husband, past observational studies have given little indication of sex‐linked differences in marital communication. Thus, we proposed that inter personally negotiated role expectations would be a better predictor of communication about marital conflict than sex. However, we also proposed that there might be sex differences within particular clusters of couples who endors…
Content Themes in Marital Conversations
Conversational themes can be viewed as a form of met communication about relationships. We suggest that the prominent themes in the conversations of spouses identify factors assumed to have an important effect on the relationship. Further, different ways of looking at marriage are reflected in the use of particular content themes. A typology of content themes was derived from transcripts of conversations and the typology was used to code the disc…
Life-Stage Differences in Communication During Marital Conflicts
Conversations involving young, middle-aged and retired married couples were analyzed to shed light on the characteristics of communication within older marriages. The research indicated that retired couples were the least analytic and most non-committal in their remarks. Generally, retired couples rated marital problems as non-salient and their conversations were non-conflictive. However, those among the retired group who perceived salient, unres…
Conversational Themes and Marital Relationship Definitions Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations
This article examines relationship themes in the conversations of 52 married couples and suggests that implicit aspects of relationship definition are reflected, first, in the content of discussion themes and, second, in the way that different themes are integrated. As expected, "communal" themes (concerning togetherness, cooperation, and communication) were expressed more frequently and individual themes (concerning personality and individual di…
Marital Communication and the Persistence of Misunderstanding
This research examined spouses' understanding of their partners and the relation of understanding to the amount of communication in marriage. The results showed that spouses overestimated agreement with their partners; therefore, understanding scores were low after response similarity (i.e. agreement) was factored out. Reported communication had a complex relation to understanding. Communication had a slight positive association with wives' under…
Relating
Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics Get access Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics. By Leslie A. Baxter, B. M. Montgomery. New York: Guilford Press, 1996. 285 pp. $18.95 (soft). Alan L. Sillars Alan L. Sillars 1University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 4, December 1997, Pages 199–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcom/47.4.199 Published: 07 February 2006
Psychology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras) · Interpersonal communication (7 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Interpersonal relationship (4 obras) · Communication (3 obras)