The relationship between parental traits and open family communication: Affective orientation and verbal aggression |
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| Authors: | Melanie Booth‐Butterfield Robert J. Sidelinger |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies , West Virginia University , Morgantown, WV, 26506;2. West Virginia University;3. Instructor of Speech and Mass Communication , Towson State University , Towson, MD, 21204 |
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| Abstract: | This study examined haw the parental traits of affective orientation and verbal aggressiveness were associated with openness in family communication patterns. Responses were obtained from 133 college‐aged children and their parents. Parental affective orientation was positively related to their children's perceptions of more open family communication patterns, while verbal aggressiveness was negatively related. Parents’ and children's levels of trait affective orientation were moderately correlated (r=.45) with children's AO levels being higher than their parents’. |
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