Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 99-118 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Communication Studies |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Communication