Showing papers by "Patricia Noller published in 1993"
TL;DR: Female avoidants and male anxious/ambivalents were the least likely to report engaging in sexual intercourse during the course of the study, suggesting that attachment style and gender role expectations jointly influence relationship development.
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TL;DR: In this article, the issue of whether gender differences in responses to emotional situations involving high levels of marital conflict can best be explained in terms of a deficit in either male or female functioning, males and females being socialized into different cultures, or the differential social power assigned to females.
Abstract: This article focuses on the issue of whether gender differences in responses to emotional situations involving high levels of marital conflict can best be explained in terms of a deficit in either male or female functioning, males and females being socialized into different cultures, or the differential social power assigned to males and females. These different conceptualizations of gender differences are examined, and relevant research findings are presented. The issue is then discussed with particular reference to the demand-withdraw pattern in marriage, and the question is raised whether males withdraw from marital conflict primarily because they have difficulty dealing with conflict and the accompanying physiological arousal, because they have been socialized to resist pressure from others and to maintain independence, or because withdrawing is the best way of exerting power. The article concludes that the withdrawal behavior adopted by men during high levels of marital conflict does appear to enable...
72 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to determine how aspects of communication between nurses and the elderly were perceived by elderly people, future nurses, and uninvolved observers, and the results showed clear group differences particularly between the nursing students and the older, with the elderly rating many of the strategies more positively than did the nurses students.
Abstract: The aim of the study was to determine how aspects of communication between nurses and the elderly were perceived by elderly people, future nurses, and uninvolved observers. Respondents (elderly women and nursing and psychology students) rated videotapes of interactions between a nurse and an elderly woman on three dimensions: patronizing, status, and solidarity. Three communication strategies and their combinations were represented in the vignettes. Because the strategies presented were perceived as patronizing by all three groups, no group effect was found for the patronizing dimension. The results show clear group differences particularly between the nursing students and the elderly, with the elderly rating many of the strategies more positively than did the nursing students. The results are discussed in relation to previous evaluations of overaccommodation, and implications of the different perceptions are considered.
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