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AUTOR(ES) NICHOLAS BRODY , LEAH LEFEBVRE , Kate Blackburn
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA, The University of Texas at Austin
ANO 2014
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Journal of Language and Social Psychology
ISSN 0261-927X
E-ISSN 1552-6526
EDITORA SAGE Publications
DOI 10.1177/0261927x13516865
CITAÇÕES 3
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 daa483fd82777b199e0f34117eac0bc2

Resumo

People adjusting from couplehood to singlehood often engage in account creation in order to privately make sense of their relationship life and death, as well as publicly explain the changes to their social network. This study analyzes language style differences in retrospective private and public accounts of relationship breakups. We examined language use as it relates to the creation of accounts, breakup initiator status, and relationship dissolution adjustment. We found that (a) public and private breakup accounts contain different types and percentages of first-person and third-person pronouns, (b) pronoun use differs based on the breakup initiator, and (c) use of first-person singular and plural pronouns predicts post-breakup adjustment. Findings suggest that language style differences in private and public accounts from the same person may illustrate variations in how individuals adjust to stressful experiences.

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