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Self-Ratings Of Communication Style And Discourse Performance Of Healthy Aging Adults, Hayley E. Besten
Self-Ratings Of Communication Style And Discourse Performance Of Healthy Aging Adults, Hayley E. Besten
Theses and Dissertations--Communication Sciences and Disorders
This study investigated the accuracy of healthy aging adults‟ self-rating of communication style, as measured by quantifiable measures of discourse performance. Ninety cognitively healthy adults participated and comprised three age cohorts (20s, 40s, 60s). Participants completed discourse tasks that included recounting a vacation, telling a story, and describing a picture. Participants also self-rated their communication style, placing them in a talkative or reserved cohort. Communication style was measured by discourse performance variables of interest: length of output (TNW) and informativeness (%IU). When presented with an unconstrained task (recounting a vacation), talkative and reserved groups, regardless of age, produced a similar …