{"title":"[How Does Communication Escalate in Jeopardizing Situations in Psychiatry? - A Multivariate Replication Study].","authors":"Nina Roth, Stephan Debus","doi":"10.1055/a-2897-4255","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Motivation: </strong>Results of former communication behavior studies in psychiatric jeopardizing situations should be replicated by mean of speech act analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The communication of the actors in restaged real jeopardizing situations as well as in simulated alternative scenarios is videotaped, transcribed and analysed using a speech act-based classification system. A multivariate, hypothesis-testing design examines communicative characteristics: changing speaker roles, communicative functions of the speech acts, reactions to speech acts, respective success of speech acts and the degree of escalation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Escalation is significantly related to who speaks in what way, how people react and the success of communication. The results contribute to a better understanding of the communicative mechanisms of violence escalation in jeopardizing situations and can make them usable for team supervision and de-escalation training.</p>","PeriodicalId":20711,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatrische Praxis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychiatrische Praxis","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2897-4255","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Motivation: Results of former communication behavior studies in psychiatric jeopardizing situations should be replicated by mean of speech act analysis.
Methods: The communication of the actors in restaged real jeopardizing situations as well as in simulated alternative scenarios is videotaped, transcribed and analysed using a speech act-based classification system. A multivariate, hypothesis-testing design examines communicative characteristics: changing speaker roles, communicative functions of the speech acts, reactions to speech acts, respective success of speech acts and the degree of escalation.
Results: Escalation is significantly related to who speaks in what way, how people react and the success of communication. The results contribute to a better understanding of the communicative mechanisms of violence escalation in jeopardizing situations and can make them usable for team supervision and de-escalation training.