Ph.D. student Tiffany Lewis is the co-author of a newly published study in Communication Quarterly, a journal published by the Eastern Communication Association. Entitled "Listening to Another's Distress in Everyday Relationships," Lewis' essay is co-authored by Valerie Manusov of the University of Washington.

Lewis & Manusov offer a model that assesses some antecedent and interactional variables proposed to be involved with listening and connected with listeners' negative distress. Based on eighty-two reports of interactions with close relational others, levels of negative distress correlated positively with the amount of responsibility people felt for the other and time reported listening to the others' disclosure. Those who reported validating the other also reported more negative distress than did those who said their response style was to give advice.

Citation: Tiffany Lewis and Valerie Manusov, "Listening to Another's Distress in Everyday Relationships," Communication Quarterly 57 (2009): 282-301.