Abstract

Research on family communication in the leisure context has been limited to retrospective survey reconstructions of perceptions of communication patterns. This study examines the validity of sociometric badges for measuring family communication in real-time. Seven families (married, two-parent families with at least one child ages 4–17 years) wore sociometric badges during a 30-minute leisure activity in a lab setting. We compared mean badge estimates of family communication duration to mean coded video data from the same 30-minute sessions. Intraclass correlation coefficients indicated sociometric badges are not as reliable as video-coded estimates of speech; however, among parents, non-significant mean comparisons partially support the validity of sociometric badges. Deviation scores indicated average differences between the two methods to be less than three minutes. We urge scholars to proceed with cautious optimism if using sociometric badges for real-time communication data collection, and to pair badges with other data collection methods.

摘要

休闲背景下的家庭交流研究仅限于对交流模式感知的回顾性调查重建。本研究检验了社会计量徽章在实时测量家庭沟通方面的有效性。七个家庭（已婚、双亲家庭，至少有一个 4-17 岁的孩子）在实验室环境中进行 30 分钟的休闲活动时佩戴社会计量徽章。我们将家庭通信持续时间的平均徽章估计值与来自相同 30 分钟会话的平均编码视频数据进行了比较。类内相关系数表明社会计量徽章不如视频编码的语音估计值可靠；然而，在父母中，不显着的均值比较部分支持了社会计量徽章的有效性。偏差分数表明两种方法之间的平均差异小于三分钟。如果使用社会计量徽章进行实时通信数据收集，我们敦促学者们谨慎乐观，并将徽章与其他数据收集方法配对。