Loneliness and the Evaluation of Relational Events
| Autor: | Kris Pond, Geoff B. Leatham, Steven W. Duck |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Hostility Loneliness Interpersonal communication 050105 experimental psychology Social relation Developmental psychology Style (sociolinguistics) Self evaluation Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Conversation medicine.symptom Communication quality Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 11:253-276 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3608 0265-4075 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0265407594112006 |
| Popis: | If loneliness inclines people to a general hostility towards others and to a disparaging style about social interaction, then the style should appear in studies of lonely people interacting with their friends, as well as observing other persons they do not know. We conducted a study with 4 features: it compared (a) lonely and non-lonely persons' evaluation of (b) their own and other people's conversations with friends, using (c) both free evaluation and videotape-prompted evaluation (d) both immediately after the interaction and 6 weeks later. Lonely persons did not consistently evaluate their or others' conversations negatively, though they tended to rate communication quality lower. They did, however, draw negative global conclusions about their own relationships, especially after reviewing a videotape of their own interaction 6 weeks later. We conjecture that lonely people are negative about interactions when they focus on their own communicative performance, and that they also have characteristic ways of evaluating and generalizing from their own interactions that feed into general patterns of dissatisfaction with their own social performance in relationships as a whole. |
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