TY - JOUR
T1 - Patronizing Young and Elderly Adults
T2 - Response Strategies in a Community Setting
AU - Harwood, Jake
AU - Fox, Susan
AU - Ryan, Ellen Bouchard
AU - Williams, Angie
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge support for this research provided by an academic grant awarded to the second author by the University of California, Santa Barbara Senate and by a grant awarded to the fourth author by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. An abridged version of this paper was presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, D.C., November, 1992. We acknowledge the assistance of Elisa Smith, Jill Rothman, and Jinene Yoshimura in data collection.
PY - 1993/8/1
Y1 - 1993/8/1
N2 - Within the context of an elaborated model of the communication predicament of aging, the effects of particular response strategies to patronizing, intergenerational talk were investigated with written vignettes depicting a community situation. Young adults (N = 222) evaluated a patronizing speaker more negatively than a non-patronizing speaker, and they also judged both conversational partners to be more satisfied when patronizing speech was absent. As compared to cooperative responses, assertive responses from the patronizee led to evaluations that she was higher status, more controlling, less nurturing, and less satisfied. Patronizing individuals receiving an assertive response were evaluated as less in control and satisfied than when they received a cooperative response.
AB - Within the context of an elaborated model of the communication predicament of aging, the effects of particular response strategies to patronizing, intergenerational talk were investigated with written vignettes depicting a community situation. Young adults (N = 222) evaluated a patronizing speaker more negatively than a non-patronizing speaker, and they also judged both conversational partners to be more satisfied when patronizing speech was absent. As compared to cooperative responses, assertive responses from the patronizee led to evaluations that she was higher status, more controlling, less nurturing, and less satisfied. Patronizing individuals receiving an assertive response were evaluated as less in control and satisfied than when they received a cooperative response.
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U2 - 10.1080/00909889309365368
DO - 10.1080/00909889309365368
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000100003
VL - 21
SP - 211
EP - 226
JO - Journal of Applied Communication Research
JF - Journal of Applied Communication Research
SN - 0090-9882
IS - 3
ER -