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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: 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?"