In the Human Communication Research journal, article What Does Successful Aging Sound Like? Profiling Communication About Aging, explains the study of how adults converse about aging and how this relates to a successful aging process (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015). The article is specialized to professional and scholarly audiences. This article is set for these two types of audiences because it discusses a study about aging at a college reading level. The audience could range from a college student with a communications major to a Psychiatrists studying how different types of people age based on their communication patterns. Anyone who hasn’t studied any type of communications at all would find this article very difficult to understand
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The article is a summary of other published works that is objective and unbiased because it was acquired from the results of the datasets as well as facts drawn from other published works. As stated in the reading, the researchers used a “latent class analysis across 2 datasets collected in New Zealand and the United States (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” “Disengaged, Engaged, and Bantering are the 3 classes of agers” the contributors “defined by different profiles of communication behavior (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” The communicative ecology model of successful aging portrays that uncertainty about aging whether it has a negative affect or positive affect leads to how able a person feels to handle life challenges determining successful aging (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” There are 2 tables that layout the results of the study. Chart 1 shows the results of “Fit Statistics for Latent Class Analysis Solutions by Group (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” Chart 2 portrays the results of “Means by Class for Age-Related Outcomes” from all samples (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015). All the data collected lead to the conclusion “that people with very different communication patterns can experience high levels of subjective well-being in older adulthood.” The researcher believe that based on the study, “communicatively engaging with the practicalities of aging may be the best path to successful aging (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, …show more content…
The study explores how adults talk about and view their aging and or life. The results have shown that the most constructive way to achieve successful aging is to talk with others about positive experiences in life rather than grave issues. I completely agree with the results in the article because it makes perfect sense in everyday life. If you consistently talk about all the bad things in life with yourself and others you naturally engulf yourself in negative energy. Having a grim attitude all the time will cost heavily on your and others around you. I will apply this concept to better my interpersonal communication by keeping typical conversations I have with others about indisputable experiences in my life. In theory doing this will lead to successful aging leading to a better life
The article is a summary of other published works that is objective and unbiased because it was acquired from the results of the datasets as well as facts drawn from other published works. As stated in the reading, the researchers used a “latent class analysis across 2 datasets collected in New Zealand and the United States (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” “Disengaged, Engaged, and Bantering are the 3 classes of agers” the contributors “defined by different profiles of communication behavior (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” The communicative ecology model of successful aging portrays that uncertainty about aging whether it has a negative affect or positive affect leads to how able a person feels to handle life challenges determining successful aging (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” There are 2 tables that layout the results of the study. Chart 1 shows the results of “Fit Statistics for Latent Class Analysis Solutions by Group (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015).” Chart 2 portrays the results of “Means by Class for Age-Related Outcomes” from all samples (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015). All the data collected lead to the conclusion “that people with very different communication patterns can experience high levels of subjective well-being in older adulthood.” The researcher believe that based on the study, “communicatively engaging with the practicalities of aging may be the best path to successful aging (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, …show more content…
The study explores how adults talk about and view their aging and or life. The results have shown that the most constructive way to achieve successful aging is to talk with others about positive experiences in life rather than grave issues. I completely agree with the results in the article because it makes perfect sense in everyday life. If you consistently talk about all the bad things in life with yourself and others you naturally engulf yourself in negative energy. Having a grim attitude all the time will cost heavily on your and others around you. I will apply this concept to better my interpersonal communication by keeping typical conversations I have with others about indisputable experiences in my life. In theory doing this will lead to successful aging leading to a better life