Body Movement in Relation to Type of Information (Person- And Nonperson-Oriented) and Cognitive Style (Field Dependence)1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2269252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joaquin F Sousa-Poza (SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University), Robert Rohrberg (City University of New York) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-29 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Communication Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-3989 • E-ISSN: 1468-2958 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00592.x |
| OpenAlex | W2021742614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 33 |
The occurrence of body-focused (self-touching) and object-focused ("free") movements was investigated in a semi-structured interview involving two communicative tasks—person-oriented and non-person-oriented and two types of encoders (field-dependent and field-independent). Person-oriented information was accompanied by more continuous body touching movements (p < .001) and nonrepresentational (speech primacy) movements (p < .01). Representational (motor primacy) movements were more prevalent during the communication of non-person-oriented information (p < .001). Overall, field-dependent encoders produced more continuous body touching movements than field-independents (p < .05). It is proposed that body-focused movement is a reflection of the degree of uncertainty involved in generating information as a function of, among other factors, the type of information, the psychological differentiation of the encoder (field dependence) and the psychosocial uncertainty of the communicative setting. Object-focused movements seem to occur in relation to the type of information and listener availability
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2021 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |