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Interpersonal communication
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TL;DR: The authors explored the role of culture in moderating consumers' opinion exchange behavior and found that the cultural characteristics of power distance and uncertainty avoidance influence the focus of consumers' product information search activities, but not their tendency to share product-related opinions with others.
Abstract: Research conducted primarily in the United States has shown that interpersonal influence arising from opinion exchange behavior is an important factor in consumers' product adoption and brand choice decisions. An important managerial question in the international arena is whether information-giving and seeking behaviors depend on culture. In a study representing eleven nationalities, we explore the role of culture in moderating consumers' opinion exchange behavior. Results indicate that the cultural characteristics of power distance and uncertainty avoidance [Hofstede 1980] influence the focus of consumers' product information search activities, but not their tendencies to share product-related opinions with others. Following earlier opinion leadership studies, we find that individual characteristics such as product category interest and involvement are most indicative of active opinion leadership behavior.
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TL;DR: Theoretical and empirical research relevant to the use of CSCL including collaborative learning research and computer-mediated communication research is discussed using a descriptive model to categoric the extant literature as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Computer‐supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is the educational use of on‐line groups. Utilizing on‐line groups for instruction requires an understanding of the multiple issues involved in CSCL, such as the pedagogy applicable to groups and how communication technology influences group interaction. Theoretical and empirical research relevant to the use of CSCL‐including collaborative learning research and computer‐mediated communication research‐is discussed using a descriptive model to categoric the extant literature. The model provides guidance in designing and utilizing CSCL activities with university‐level groups.
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TL;DR: The authors examined whether alexithymia relates to specific interpersonal problems, based on data collected in a sample of mental health outpatients and a student sample (N = 157).
Abstract: This study examines whether alexithymia relates to specific interpersonal problems, based on data collected in a sample of mental health outpatients (N = 404) and a student sample (N = 157). Linear regression analysis, in which the effects of group, gender, and age were controlled, indicated that two interpersonal problems were significantly and reliably related to alexithymia: cold/distant and nonassertive social functioning. The theoretical relevance of the results for attachment and psychoanalytic theory is indicated, as well as implications of the findings for clinical practice.
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20 Dec 1995
TL;DR: Corradi Fiumara as discussed by the authors examines and reveals the other side of language - listening, arguing that we are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen.
Abstract: We are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen. Against a tradition that has endorsed the power of discourse, where warring monologues are mistaken for genuine dialogue, Gemma Corradi Fiumara examines and reveals the other side of language - listening.
264 citations
TL;DR: The negative association between mutual constructive communication and patient distress was stronger for patients with more physical impairment, and patients' perceptions of mutual constructive and demand/withdraw communication were associated with partners' marital satisfaction.
Abstract: This longitudinal study examined the association between three types of communication strategies couples may use to handle stressors they experience during and after breast cancer treatment and psychological distress and relationship satisfaction of women with early stage breast cancer and their partners. Mutual constructive communication, mutual avoidance, and demand-withdraw communication strategies as well as psychological distress and marital satisfaction were rated by 147 patients and 127 partners during cancer treatment and 9 months later. Mutual constructive communication was associated with less distress and more relationship satisfaction for both patient and partner. Demand-withdraw communication was associated with higher distress and lower relationship satisfaction for both patient and partner. Mutual avoidance was associated with more distress for patient and partner but was not associated with relationship satisfaction. The negative association between mutual constructive communication and patient distress was stronger for patients with more physical impairment. Patients' perceptions of mutual constructive communication and mutual avoidance were associated with partners' distress, and patients' perceptions of mutual constructive and demand/withdraw communication were associated with partners' marital satisfaction. Clinical implications for couple-focused communication skills training for cancer patients and their partners are discussed.
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