Support Seeking Behavior During Supportive Conversations: The Role of Impression Management Concerns and the Communication Medium

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Research Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI:10.1177/00936502221146035

Stephen A. Rains, Corey A. Pavlich, Eric Tsetsi, Bethany R. Lutovsky, Anjali Ashtaputre, Katerina Nemcova

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Abstract

An experiment was conducted to better understand how impression management concerns and the communication medium influence the messages produced by support seekers during supportive conversations. Support seekers were primed to anticipate a positive face threat (or not primed) and then completed a supportive conversation with a peer either face-to-face or using instant messaging. Seekers primed to anticipate a face threat were more likely to use avoidance behaviors and less likely to use incriminating justifications as conversations persisted compared to the no prime condition. Seekers in the instant messaging condition were less likely to use exonerating justifications as conversations persisted compared to participants who communicated face-to-face. A three-way interaction for approach behaviors showed that the decreased likelihood of approach behaviors over the course of a conversation was strongest in the face threat prime condition among participants using instant messaging. The implications of these findings for supportive communication theory are considered.

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支持性对话中的支持寻求行为:印象管理关注和沟通媒介的作用

为了更好地理解印象管理问题和沟通媒介如何影响支持寻求者在支持性对话中产生的信息，进行了一项实验。寻求支持的人被引导去预期正面的面部威胁(或未被引导)，然后与同伴面对面或使用即时通讯完成一段支持性的对话。与无启动条件相比，被启动预期面临威胁的寻求者更有可能使用回避行为，更不可能在对话持续时使用有罪的理由。与面对面交流的参与者相比，即时通讯条件下的搜索者不太可能在对话持续的情况下使用免责理由。接近行为的三向交互作用表明，在面对威胁启动条件下，使用即时通讯的参与者在谈话过程中接近行为的可能性下降最为明显。这些研究结果对支持性沟通理论的意义进行了考虑。

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期刊介绍： Empirical research in communication began in the 20th century, and there are more researchers pursuing answers to communication questions today than at any other time. The editorial goal of Communication Research is to offer a special opportunity for reflection and change in the new millennium. To qualify for publication, research should, first, be explicitly tied to some form of communication; second, be theoretically driven with results that inform theory; third, use the most rigorous empirical methods; and fourth, be directly linked to the most important problems and issues facing humankind. Critieria do not privilege any particular context; indeed, we believe that the key problems facing humankind occur in close relationships, groups, organiations, and cultures.