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Considering effective divorce mediation: Three potential factors
Author(s) -
Gale Jerry,
Mowery Robyn L.,
Hermann Margaret S.,
Hollett Nancy L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
conflict resolution quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.323
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1541-1508
pISSN - 1536-5581
DOI - 10.1002/crq.3890190403
Subject(s) - mediation , psychology , exploratory research , outcome (game theory) , social psychology , process (computing) , qualitative research , developmental psychology , sociology , computer science , social science , mathematics , mathematical economics , anthropology , operating system
The purpose of this exploratory, qualitative stgdy was to examine mediator efect by employing a repeated measures research design in which we videotaped mediators working with actors and a scripted divorce case scenario. What factors distinpish higher‐rated mediators from lower‐rated ones? Our discourse analysys of four divorce mediations suggested three signijcant factors of injuence that finction interactively and afect both mediation outcome and process. Ethical implications regarding how mediators achieve success in these three domains are discussed. This article presents implications for researchers, trainers, and practitioners; it suggests important directions for fiture research with nonsimulated mediation.