Citation

Bond F, Godfrey HP. Brain Inj. 1997; 11(5): 319-329.

Affiliation

Clinical Psychology Research and Training Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9146837

Abstract

The conversations of 62 traumatically brain-injured (TBI) patients, assessed between 6 months and 3 years post-injury, were compared with those of an orthopaedic control (OC) group (n = 25). Conversations involving TBI subjects were rated as significantly less interesting, less appropriate, less rewarding and more effortful than interactions involving OC subjects, and were characterized by differences in the frequency of prompt usage and turn duration. Furthermore, measures of turn duration and prompt frequency were significantly associated with the perceived quality of conversation. These findings provide a microbehavioural description of the social process through which TBI individuals fail to adequately reinforce others.

Language: en