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Teenagers are less likely to cooperate and put effort into their mother's requests when they are said in a controlling tone of voice, researchers have found.
Speaking to a son or daughter in a pressurising tone is also accompanied by a range of negative emotions and less feelings of closeness, a new study has discovered.
The experimental study involving over 1000 adolescents aged 14-15 is the first to examine how subjects respond to the tone of voice when receiving instructions from their mothers, even when the specific words that are used are exactly the same.
Lead author of the study Dr Netta Weinstein, from Cardiff University, said: "If parents want conversations with their teens to have the most benefit, it's important to remember to use supportive tones of voice. It's easy for parents to forget, especially if they are feeling stressed, tired, or pressured themselves."
The study showed that subjects were much more likely to engage with instructions that conveyed a sense of encouragement and support for self-expression and choice.
The results, whilst of obvious interest to parents, could also be of relevance to schoolteachers whose use of more motivational language could impact the learning and well-being of students in their classrooms.
"Adolescents likely feel more cared about and happier, and as a result they try harder at school, when parents and teachers speak in supportive rather than pressuring tones of voice," Dr Weinstein continued.
The new study, published today in the journal Developmental Psychology[*], involved 486 males and 514 females, aged 14-15.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Wednesday October 02 2019, @01:56AM (17 children)
Bosses who talk like that also dig up resentment by treating the workers as children rather than adults to be talked to like sentient reasoning beings and not slaves there just to hear and obey.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:09AM (16 children)
And bosses who have conversations rather than issuing orders get walked all over, have shitty productivity, and get fired by their own boss for sucking at their job. Having a conversation is fine in its place but when you need something done you tell not suggest.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:31AM (5 children)
If only there were some kind of ancient tradition where the boss does real work in the trenches as primus inter pares.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:49AM (4 children)
That's how I run my small engineering company. I'm not "friends" with my contracted workers, but I don't lord it over them either. If they have a personal issue that gets in the way of work, I'm open to discussing how to get everything done (including their personal problem). I never issue "orders", but I do make it clear what we have promised our customers so everyone knows the schedule. While I can't do everything they do, I know our specialty very well, so I can catch errors before we deliver a mistake.
It has been working fine since my father started the company in 1976, I've been managing since late '90's.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:56AM (3 children)
Your workers are walking all over you, and you need to dominate them with an iron fist or wing or beak or pecker or whatever a buzzard uses to peck his underlings to death before he eats their tasty corpses.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Wednesday October 02 2019, @03:21AM (2 children)
Unhappy workers are proven to be less productive. They're also more likely to engage in union activity when pushed too far. I keep hearing all these anti-union rants by people who were never members of a union, but I was a member of the steelworkers at one job, and they would make a good union for IT workers. Got to love the leverage of a badass reputation when it comes to negotiating.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02 2019, @03:25AM (1 child)
Buzzard's a one-bird productivity machine, cranking out productivity like nobody's business. He has to be, because nobody will work for him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02 2019, @04:07AM
As I'm laughing, I really want a mod that looks like this:
"Insightful?"
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jelizondo on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:57AM (4 children)
Bollocks! Different people react differently to a given stimulus.
I don’t get along well with authoritarian figures. Sorry to brag, but I have a superior intellect, two degrees (Engineering and Law), speak several languages and no asshat is going to simply order me around because by happenstance he has a higher hierarchical position. I have told fuck off to many bosses, including a Police Chief of a medium-sized city and the fucking Mayor.
When commanding, I prefer to explain what needs to be done and why, because I want the person doing the work to be able to suggest a better way of doing it. Sitting behind a desk is a sure-fire way to miss many things that happen on the field (or factory floor, or sales area, whatever) and the line worker has a better grasp of the real situation.
Of course, despite my superior qualifications, I do not assume that I know better than the people actually doing the work; which seems to be your position. Like Socrates, I know that I know nothing…
Now try and walk over me and you’ll get your ass handed to you so fast you won’t notice you are sitting on your sacrum bone.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 02 2019, @01:39PM (1 child)
There are six basic styles of leadership. You seem to be describing the coach. Make it a team effort, get everyone's input, consider all the input, get everyone onboard, make a final decision, make certain everyone understands their job, then stand back and watch it happen.
You also seem to be something of an authoritarian. Few people resent abuse of authority more than an authoritarian. Very few, as in, almost none.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Wednesday October 02 2019, @10:20PM
Quite right. If push comes to shove, I can be Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao all rolled into one. I prefer to get along and get the job done, but in a crunch, I will bite anyone’s head off!
I might regret it later and have apologized more than once, even publicly, but it’s all part of the job.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:06PM (1 child)
Well, aren't you just the special one then. Hope you're good enough to keep food on the table with that attitude, because it's going to cost you a lot of work.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Wednesday October 02 2019, @10:23PM
Thanks for your concern. Food is plentiful and so is work. As Diogenes remarked, I rather eats lentils than bow to the Great Alexander.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 02 2019, @01:17PM (1 child)
Found the authoritarian, condescending, controlling boss.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:04PM
It's amusing that you think you need to qualify the word "boss" like that. Two of those three qualities are integral to the meaning of the word.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Wednesday October 02 2019, @03:59PM (2 children)
Hahaha thank god I don't work around people like this anymore.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 02 2019, @08:02PM (1 child)
That you can't tell the difference between a reasonable person who is still ultimately the boss and a power-mad asshat says a lot about you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by i286NiNJA on Wednesday October 02 2019, @10:32PM
I must have forgotten in all the years since my last peasant job.