Age, Social-Cognitive Development, and the Use of Comforting Strategies.

Burleson, Brant R.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Age, Social-Cognitive Development, and the Use of Comforting Strategies.

Burleson, Brant R.

Communication Monographs, v51 n2 p140-53 Jun 1984

This study of students (grades 1-12) concluded that the relationship between social-cognitive ability and the communication skill of comforting is contingent on age. (Comforting strategies are those messages having the intended function of alleviating, moderating, or salving the distressed emotional states of others.) (PD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Altruism, Children, Chronological Age, Cognitive Development, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Interpersonal Competence, Perspective Taking, Social Cognition

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