A Review and Meta-Analysis of Person-Centered Messages and Social Support Outcomes

被引:136
作者
High, Andrew C. [1 ]
Dillard, James Price [1 ]
机构
[1] Penn State Univ, Dept Commun Arts & Sci, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
关键词
Comfort; Meta-Analysis; Perceived Effectiveness; Person-Centered Hierarchy; Social Support; Verbal Person-Centered Messages;
D O I
10.1080/10510974.2011.598208
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
Person-centered messages are a form of social support that has been theoretically and empirically linked to a variety of outcomes. Scholars would benefit by recognizing the influence of person-centered messages across a number of studies in the absence of statistical artifacts. This article reports a meta-analysis testing the association between person-centered messages and social support outcomes across 23 studies. Our results demonstrate a positive linear association between person-centeredness and actual effectiveness, and an even stronger linear relationship between person-centeredness and perceived effectiveness. The association between person-centeredness and support outcomes was attenuated in confederate-based methodologies. Moreover, the data suggest that scholars need to more precisely conceptualize and empirically assess the differences between the nine levels of the person-centered hierarchy.
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