Bergman R L, Goldstein M J
Department of Psychology, UCLA 90024-1563.
Fam Process. 1993 Mar;32(1):105-15. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1993.00105.x.
Both researchers and therapists who study schizophrenia make inferences about enduring family roles from observed patterns of interactional talking behavior within families. Evidence regarding the stability of these patterns is rarely investigated. The present study examined the short-term stability of intrafamilial speech patterns (who talks to whom) across two consecutive discussions. The sample was composed of families containing a recent-onset, adult schizophrenic patient. All discussions involved two biological parents and a young adult patient (N = 28). Families were classified into one of three interactional role-structure categories based on the intrafamilial speech patterns in two 10-minute discussions obtained in the same session. In addition, the affective style (Doane, West, Goldstein, et al., 1981) of the content of the discussions was coded. The results indicated that intrafamilial speech patterns were relatively stable across two discussions despite variations in the focus of the problem discussed. Further, when one parent was predominant in the discussion, a higher rate of negative affective statements was observed than when both parents were equal participants. The results provide further support for the use of discussion tasks in generating meaningful family interaction data.
研究精神分裂症的研究人员和治疗师都通过观察家庭内部互动式交谈行为的模式来推断持久的家庭角色。关于这些模式稳定性的证据很少被研究。本研究考察了连续两次讨论中家庭内部言语模式（谁与谁交谈）的短期稳定性。样本由包含近期发病的成年精神分裂症患者的家庭组成。所有讨论都涉及两位亲生父母和一名年轻成年患者（N = 28）。根据在同一会话中获得的两次10分钟讨论中的家庭内部言语模式，家庭被分为三种互动角色结构类别之一。此外，对讨论内容的情感风格（多恩、韦斯特、戈尔茨坦等人，1981年）进行了编码。结果表明，尽管讨论的问题重点有所不同，但家庭内部言语模式在两次讨论中相对稳定。此外，当一位家长在讨论中占主导地位时，观察到的负面情感陈述的比例高于父母双方平等参与时。这些结果为使用讨论任务来生成有意义的家庭互动数据提供了进一步的支持。
