Explaining the Durable Effects of Verbal Person-Centered Supportive Communication

Indirect Effects or Invisible Support

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2264240
AutoresAndrew C High (0000-0002-9397-6875, Department of Communication Studies; The University of Iowa; Iowa City IA 52242 USA, autor correspondente), D H Solomon (0000-0001-5535-0137, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences; The Pennsylvania State University; University Park PA 16802 USA)
Ano2016
Volume42
Fascículo2
Páginas200-220
Data de publicação2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Communication Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0360-3989 • E-ISSN: 1468-2958
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/hcre.12077
OpenAlexW2275073729
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas30

Researchers have documented benefits from receiving supportive messages high in verbal person-centeredness (VPC), but the processes through which such messages produce longitudinal effects remain unclear. This study evaluated two perspectives (i.e., indirect effects and invisible support) that address how supportive messages can produce durable effects and tested sex differences in those effects. 255 dyads completed a laboratory-based interaction in which level of VPC and sex of the support provider were manipulated. 3 weeks later, support receivers evaluated the conversations and their stressor. Variations in VPC produced durable effects both when messages were positively evaluated initially and when they were evaluated as supportive by providers or third-party observers but judged low in supportiveness by receivers. Provider sex moderated the results

Developmental psychology · Interpersonal interaction · Nonverbal communication · Social support · Stressor · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Clinical Psychology · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology