When Words Hurt: The Effects of Perceived Intentionality on Interpersonal Relationships

By Anita L. Vangelisti, Stacy L. Young. 2000

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

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Relational quality and communicative responses following hurtful events in dating relationships: An expectancy violations analysis (2006, methodology): “Two items were modeled after Vangelisti and Young (2000) and two were created for this study (e.g., ‘To what degree did the event cause you emotional pain?’).”
Bystander Intervention in Cyberbullying (2016, methodology): “The perceived hurtfulness of the cyberbullying incident was measured with a series of semantic differential items originally developed by Vangelisti and Young (2000).”
Reactions to Discrimination, Stigmatization, Ostracism, and Other Forms of Interpersonal Rejection (2009, background): “Although some theorists have suggested that hurt feelings reflect a blend of other emotions (such as sadness and fear; see Vangelisti, 2001; Vangelisti & Young, 2000), research shows that participants’ ratings of how “hurt” they feel reflect unique variance in affective experience that is not…”
Challenges in conceptualizing social support (2009, background): “When people perceive a hurtful statement as well-intended, their responses to that statement are relatively positive and those positive responses, in turn, may be linked to positive outcomes (see, e.g., Vangelisti & Young, 2000).”
Hurt Feelings in Couple Relationships: Towards Integrative Models of the Negative Effects of Hurtful Events (2004, background): “For example, Vangelisti and Young (2000) coded victims’ open-ended accounts of hurtful messages as intentional or unintentional, and found that intentional hurt was linked to reports that the relationship had become more distant and hostile.”
Hurt feelings in couple relationships: Exploring the role of attachment and perceptions of personal injury (2005, unknown): “For instance, Vangelisti (2001; Vangelisti & Young, 2000) has defined hurt as a combination of sadness and fear: sadness at a felt loss, and fear of being vulnerable to harm.”