You need to understand my gender role: An empirical test of Tannen's model of gender and communication

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Abstract

In her popular book on gender differences in communication, Deborah Tannen proposed that women and men interpret messages along different dimensions (intimacy and control) and that these differing interpretations make intersex communication difficult. In the present study, we contrasted Tannen's model with a more complex model that incorporated gender role as a factor that influences the interpretations of messages. Causal modeling of data from questionnaires (N = 192) administered to predominately European American university students revealed stronger support for a complex model than for the basic model.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Sex Roles

First Page

491

Last Page

504

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