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Communication Effects On Divorce Mediation: How Participants' Argumentativeness, Verbal Aggression, And Compliance-Gaining Strategy Choice Mediate Outcome Satisfaction, Jill E. Rudd

Communication Faculty Publications

Presents a study which examined the interrelatedness of compliance-gaining strategies, argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness and satisfaction with divorce mediation. Process in which divorcing spouses negotiate some or all of the terms of their settlement agreement with the aid of a neutral and trained third party; Types of compliance-gaining strategies; Trait which predisposes the individual in communicative situations to advocate positions on controversial issues and to attack verbally the positions which other people take on the issues.