Investigating Dinnertime: How families communicate and the relation to child well-being 公开

Gallo, Emily Ann (2011)

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Investigating Dinnertime: How families communicate and the relation to child well-being
By Emily Gallo

This study aims to build on previous literature regarding the effects of family communication styles on child well-being by examining family dinnertime conversation in terms of conversational topics and utterance types. Thirty-seven two-parent families with at least one child between the ages of 9-12 were asked to record two of their family dinnertime conversations. The results reveal that families tend to discuss the past and future the most and that mothers tend to talk the most. No definitive conclusions were drawn regarding the relation of family communication to child well-being, but the child's participation in the conversation may be important. Future research would benefit from focusing on a more diverse population and a less concrete coding scheme.

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I. Introduction...p. 3

a. Parenting Style...p. 3
b. Family Communication...p. 4
c. Mothers vs. Fathers...p. 10
d. Dinnertime Coversations...p. 13
e. Talking about the Past...p. 14
f. The Current Study...p. 17

II. Method...p. 18

a. Participants...p. 18
b. Coding...p. 19

III. Results...p. 23

a. What are families talking about...p. 23
b. Who is talking?...p. 24
c. How are families talking?...p. 25
d. Relation to child well-being...p. 28

IV. Discussion...p. 30
V. References...p. 41
VI. Figures and Tables...p. 44

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