Self-Efficacy & Conversational Repair - Deaf & Hearing Adolescents
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Is there a relationship between self-efficacy and conversational repair skills in deaf and hearing adolescents?
IRAS ID
140303
Contact name
Rosalind Herman
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
City University
Research summary
Self-efficacy is a person’s belief in their ability to do certain tasks, the willingness to begin and continue those tasks in spite of barriers and difficulties that might be faced.
Conversational repair is the way that people taking part in a conversation deal with problems that come up in speaking, listening and understanding each other.This pilot study is being carried out to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy and the conversational repair skills of deaf and hearing young people. It is hoped that a better understanding of this area may lead to better outcomes in speech and language therapy.
If there is found to be a positive relationship between self-efficacy and conversational repair skills, then therapy to develop conversational repair skills in deaf young people could include self-efficacy strategies in order to support the development and maintainance of skills. Strategies such as problem-solving with a client how to use particular strategies, developing a client's personal mastery of the use of particular repair strategies by incremental steps, and learning from the successes of others, can be included to encourage the use and maintenance of new skills.REC name
London - Dulwich Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/LO/0539
Date of REC Opinion
16 Jun 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion