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Exploring teenagers' accounts of bad communication: a new basis for intervention

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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:16 authored by John DruryJohn Drury, Liza Catan, Catherine Dennison, Roz Brody
Interventions to enhance young people's communication are rarely based on research into adolescent communication, but take a more general, analytic, skills-based approach. This paper argues that evidence of young people's communication experiences is an important resource to inform the targeting and content of interventions, which has hitherto been overlooked. An exploratory, hypothesis-generating study of teenagers' accounts of their communication experiences was carried out. Four thousand and forty-eight adolescents aged 13-19 described a recent communication experience with (i) a family member, (ii) a friend or (iii) a non-family adult (professional or official). Self-reported bad communication experiences outweighed good ones only in adolescents' communications with adults outside the family, and there were significant variations across contexts in terms of the purposes, explanations and attributions for perceived bad communication. Implications of the research for future interventions are discussed.

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  • Published

Journal

Journal of Adolescence

ISSN

01401971

Publisher

Journal of Adolescence

Issue

2

Volume

21

Page range

177 - 196

ISBN

0140-1971

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  • Psychology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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