Communicating Social Support

Informationen zum Autor Daena J. Goldsmith (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching and research span a variety of topics, including social support, communication theory, gender issues, and personal relationships. She is widely published in national and international journals in the areas of communication and personal relationships. Klappentext We often turn to our friends, family, spouses, and partners for help in coping with daily stress or major crises. Daena Goldsmith provides a communication-based approach for understanding why some conversations about problems are more helpful than others. In contrast to other research on the social support processes, Goldsmith focuses on interpersonal communication--what people say and how they say it, as well as their reactions to the conversations. Her studies cover adults of all ages and various kinds of stresses, ranging from everyday hassles to serious illnesses and other major crises. Zusammenfassung This innovative program of research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to develop a distinctive communication-based framework for understanding why the content! form! style! and sequence of talk matter for our evaluations of the help we receive from others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Puzzles in the study of enacted social support; 2. Conceptualizing enacted social support; 3. Communicating advice; 4. Re-examining matching models of social support; 5. Problematizing provider/recipient roles in troubles talk; 6. Conclusion and implications; Appendix; Notes; References.

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• Authors: Daena Goldsmith, Daena J. Goldsmith, Daena J. (University of Illinois Goldsmith, Daena. J Goldsmith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2004
• EAN: 9780521825900
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82590-0
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Advances in Personal Relations; Advances in Personal Relations; Advances in Personal Relationships
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system