CAREER: Modeling Responsive Relationship Behavior: Channels of Communication, Social Benefits, and Mechanisms of Action

职业：建立响应性关系行为模型：沟通渠道、社会效益和行动机制

• 批准号: 1944445
• 负责人: Cheryl Carmichael
• 金额: $ 89.63万
• 依托单位: CUNY Brooklyn College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1944445&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Modeling; Responsive; Relationship; Behavior

People with good relationships live longer and healthier lives. This project focuses on what makes good relationships good, and how those relationships transmit benefits to the people who have them. One important part of a good relationship is feeling like a partner understands, validates, and cares for you. People communicate understanding, validation, and care (responsiveness) in the words they say and the way they say them, and sometimes without words at all. In addition, some people are more easily able to give and receive responsive behavior based on how secure they feel in their relationships. This research looks at the separate ways that words and nonverbal cues are used to show responsiveness, and how each type of communication is uniquely beneficial to the self, the relationship, and physiological function. It also tests whether feeling secure in a relationship plays a role in being able to benefit from responsiveness. Learning how verbal and nonverbal responsive behavior are separately beneficial, and who benefits most, can help identify specific behaviors to help people be more responsive to each other and to improve the quality of their relationships. Sharing the results of this work with the scientific community and society at large will help support healthier social connections.The project draws from a convergence of theory and research in social psychology, health psychology, neuroscience and communication studies. The research compares the effects of verbal (words) and nonverbal (tone of voice and touch) responsive behavior on personal well-being, relationship quality, and physiological pathways to health (e.g., stress hormone production, cardiovascular activity, sleep). It also tests whether feeling secure in relationships affects whether people are able to be responsive or benefit from a partner’s responsive behavior. The project focuses on romantic couples, friends, and strangers using longitudinal, behavioral, and daily diary methods. The related educational goals of this work include increasing participation in science among people from underrepresented groups. This project supports the development of new courses in relationship science, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in research, and sharing basic information about the results with the diverse community within and around Brooklyn College.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

拥有良好人际关系的人活得更长，更健康。这个项目的重点是什么使良好的关系好，以及这些关系如何将利益传递给拥有它们的人。良好关系的一个重要部分是感觉伴侣理解，验证，关心你。人们用他们说的话和他们说的方式来传达理解，验证和关心（响应），有时根本不用语言。此外，有些人更容易根据他们在关系中的安全感给予和接受回应行为。这项研究着眼于语言和非语言线索用于显示反应的不同方式，以及每种类型的沟通如何对自我，关系和生理功能独特有益。它还测试了在一段关系中感到安全是否在能够从响应中受益方面发挥作用。了解语言和非语言反应行为如何分别有益，以及谁受益最大，可以帮助确定特定的行为，以帮助人们更好地相互回应，并提高他们的关系质量。与科学界和整个社会分享这项工作的成果将有助于支持更健康的社会联系。该项目借鉴了社会心理学、健康心理学、神经科学和传播学的理论和研究成果。该研究比较了言语（词语）和非言语（语调和触摸）反应行为对个人幸福感、关系质量和健康的生理途径（例如，应激激素产生、心血管活动、睡眠）。它还测试了关系中的安全感是否会影响人们是否能够做出反应或从伴侣的反应行为中受益。该项目的重点是浪漫的夫妇，朋友和陌生人使用纵向，行为和日常日记的方法。这项工作的相关教育目标包括增加代表性不足群体的人们对科学的参与。该项目支持关系科学新课程的开发，指导本科生和研究生的研究，并与布鲁克林学院内部和周围的多元化社区分享有关结果的基本信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。