Dizer e fazer: correspondência verbal de mães e filhos em uma situação de exame médico / Saying and doing: verbal correspondence of mothers and sons in a medical examination situation

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Verbal correspondence can be defined as the relationship between verbal and non verbal individuals behaviors. Researches in the literature about verbal correspondence used correspondence trainings, without observing if correspondence already exists naturally, with no training need. This study had as objective to describe correspondence behaviors of mothers and sons in a natural situation in a medical context. Seven mother-child pairs (children with ages between five and eight years-old) and one physician participated in the research. With each pair, there were three moments: 1) an interview with the mother and child separately before the medical examination, 2) filming of the examination and 3) interview after the examination with mother and son, separately. The results demonstrated that, from the categorized behaviors, most children showed total verbal correspondence saydo- say (33,33%). However, the mothers had most of their behaviors categorized as noncorrespondence (35,13%). In addition, most mothers did not instruct their sons on how to behave in the medical context, and the mothers who did so, showed incomplete rules. Variables such as age, social- economical level, life history, educational level and context must be better investigated about their influence in the occurrence of natural verbal correspondence. In conclusion, verbal correspondence has a great importance in the health context because it is related to self-control and self-knowing.

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verbal behavior instructions rules operant behavior comportamento verbal instruções correspondência verbal comportamento operante psicologia regras verbal correspondence

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