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Buerkel-Rothfuss, Nancy L.; Covert, Anita Miller – 1982
This document proposes the adoption of a rules-based theoretical perspective for the study of family interaction. In the first section, Logical and Empirical Requirements, concepts and basic assumptions pertinent to rules theory are considered. The concepts of coordination and determinacy, as used in a rules framework, are explained, and logical…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Family Relationship, Family Structure
Buerkel-Rothfuss, Nancy L.; Yerby, Janet – 1981
Similarities between parents and children have been of interest throughout history, but little work has been done in the area of communication similarities. To study the intergenerational continuity of communication style, the first of two studies examined the correlations between certain readily-identifiable aspects of parental communication…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Factor Analysis, Family Communication