Date of Award:
5-1989
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Psychology
Committee Chair(s)
Ann M. Berghout Austin
Committee
Ann M. Berghout Austin
Committee
Gerald Adams
Committee
Frank Ascione
Committee
Grayson Osborne
Committee
Don Sisson
Abstract
Assimilative behavioral strategies provide continuity through maintenance of similarities, traditions, and interactions, while accommodative strategies result in social innovation through the creation of new modes and interactive patterns (J. Block, 1982; J. H. Block, 1983). It was hypothesized that females would show assimilative discourse patterns through the maintenance of conversational topics, while males would show accommodative patterns through more frequent changes in conversational topic, and that the roots of this pattern lie in family conversation. Nineteen families were videotaped at one month, four months, and four years following the birth of their second child. Results showed that gender-differentiated use of assimilation and accommodation was more true for sibling dyads than for the parent-child relationship.
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Recommended Citation
Summers, Marcia, "Assimilation and Accommodation in Family Discourse: A Longitudinal Analysis" (1989). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 5988.
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