title: Analysis of Participant Reactivity in Dyads Performing a Videotaped Conflict-Management Task.
abstract: Videotaping is used frequently in nursing research. A threat to the validity of videotaping is participant reactivity, that is, being recorded by a camera may influence the behavior of interest. This paper's purpose is to report how youth ages 10 to 14 years old and their parent viewed participation in a videotaped conflict-management task. Five dyads, who were part of a randomized clinical trial testing an intervention to promote parent-child communication, participated in a structured interview. All parents were mothers. Youth were eighth graders. Three were boys and two were girls. Findings indicated that (a) dyads felt that the videotaped interaction had a progression of feeling unnatural in the beginning to feeling natural toward the end, (b) dyads found it relatively easy to choose a topic of discussion, and (c) dyads felt that the discussions were meaningful. Based on these data, recommendations for researchers to reduce participant reactivity are provided.
authors: School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792, USA.
authors: Yulia Y
authors: YY
authors: Semeniuk
authors: Susan K
authors: SK
authors: Riesch