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Popular narratology as the swivel of death’s door: rhetoric as transition and transcendence to life’s end Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Brent Yergensen
The history of the two primary institutions of thought and belief, scientific philosophy and theology, center their discourses on addressing the human inevitability of death. Crucial is how moments...
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Tragedy and comedy, outrage and reconciliation: exploring the insurrection of January 6, 2021, through Burkean frames Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Meg H. Kunde
In this article, I rhetorically analyze the Final Report by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, released in January 2023, as a jumping off point...
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A longitudinal analysis of communication traits: communication apprehension, willingness to communicate, and self-perceived communication competence Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Stephen M Croucher, Stephanie Kelly, Thao Nguyen, Kenneth Rocker, Tommy Yotes, Joanna Cullinane
This longitudinal study assessed the communication apprehension, willingness to communicate, and self-perceived communication competence for a group of participants across a 15-year span. In total,...
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How partisan social identity shapes evaluations of candidate brand elements on campaign websites Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Freddie J. Jennings, Josh C. Bramlett, Kaleb Turner, Benjamin Figueroa
Political parties operate as partisan social groups and partisanship biases the way individuals process political information, form political opinions, and evaluate candidates. Partisans demonstrat...
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Layering effects of religious and political nonaccommodation in predicting shared family identity Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Quinten S. Bernhold
This study examined how religious and political nonaccommodation from a parent and grandparent are associated with shared family identity. Religious and political nonaccommodation were more consist...
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Information seeking about vaccines: institutional trust, perceived benefits, and individual vs. collective frames Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Porismita Borah, Xizhu Xiao, Xiaohui Cao, Anastasia Vishnevskaya
Despite robust scientific and medical consensus on vaccine effectiveness, many people remain hesitant to get vaccinated against life-threatening diseases. Considering the importance of information ...
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Predicting compliance with interpersonal masking requests: insights from relational framing and reactance theories Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Yuwei Li, Timothy Worley
During the COVID-19 pandemic, myriad factors contributed to disagreements around the use of masks to curb the public health crisis. Against this backdrop, this study spotlights how interactional pr...
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Workplace romance policies, behaviors, and reputational beliefs: experiences of employees from major US cities Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Sean M. Horan, Rebecca M. Chory, Erin S. Craw, Lisa Mainiero
The present study examined employees’ knowledge of their organization’s workplace romance policy and its relationship with their workplace romance experiences and beliefs. It also investigated diff...
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Direct-proactive communication and the post-infidelity stay-leave decision Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Jayda P. Felder, Laura V. Machia
Research at the intersection of infidelity and communication has primarily focused on how partners communicate post-infidelity. However, researchers have yet to investigate whether direct-proactive...
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Relational Uncertainty, Parent Involvement, and Conversations about the State of the Relationship as Predictors of Relational Turbulence in Romantic Relationships Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Emily Stager, Paul Schrodt
This study investigated how parent involvement (i.e., parent interference and facilitation) moderates the direct and indirect associations between young adults’ relational uncertainty and turbulenc...
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Support features, psychological reactance, and support outcomes: evaluating social network support for friends and daters Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Kellie St.Cyr Brisini, Ningyang Wang
This study examined the ways in which characteristics of support interactions associate with psychological reactance and, in turn, affect support outcomes. Recent studies have linked the content/qu...
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Increasing career confidence of emerging adults: assessing the influence of vocational anticipatory socialization and work ethics Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Melinda Aley, Kenneth J. Levine
During an emerging adult’s career decision-making and development, the work ethic is defined as an individual’s commitment to valuing work and believing that doing a good job requires hard work, is...
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A content analysis of aggression in Netflix original, adolescent-directed series’ subtitles Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Muheng Yu, Michael C. Carter, Drew P. Cingel, Jeanette B. Ruiz
Given the risk for aggression in the media to potentially influence adolescents’ cognitions and behaviors related to aggression, we performed a content analysis to examine the different types of ag...
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Relationship of media usage to attitudes toward police Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Jack Glascock
The present study examined the contribution of exposure to entertainment and news media to attitudes toward police. Using a survey of young adults (N = 321), various media repertoires as well as ot...
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Parents’ Nonaccommodation and Sexual Minorities’ Topic Avoidance and Surface Acting as Mediators of Family Communication Patterns and Shared Family Identity Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Paul Schrodt, Haley Decker
This study tested parents’ nonaccommodation of their young adult child’s sexual identity and the child’s topic avoidance and surface acting as mediators of family communication patterns (FCPs, i.e....
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Does outgroup media exposure reduce prejudice in real life? Testing mediated contact effects with media diets in South Africa Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-07-07 David Schieferdecker, Jake Harwood
Mediated intergroup contact can reduce recipients’ prejudice. However, prior studies have mainly examined the effects of carefully selected stimuli, contents, and genres. We investigated whether ou...
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Initial report of the Argumentativeness Index of Behavioral Indicators for measuring trait argumentativeness Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Charles J. Wigley III, Andrew S. Rancer, Yang Lin
Infante and Rancer’s (1982) Argumentativeness Scale has withstood the test of time, but questions remain among some scholars as to specific scale items and how those items might affect structural a...
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Antecedents and consequences of interpersonal electronic surveillance in romantic relationships Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Lindsey Susan Aloia
ABSTRACT The proliferation of communication technologies and the growth of social networking sites provide new avenues for electronic surveillance of romantic relationship partners. This study evaluated attachment dimensions and romantic jealousy as complementary explanations for interpersonal electronic surveillance in romantic relationships. In addition, this study investigated the moderating effect
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Questioning conceptualizations of openness in family sex communication: Exploring associations between family communication patterns and family sex communication quotient Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Brittney S. Morrissey, Julie Sisler, Anthony T. Machette
Family communication patterns theory (FCPT) and family sex communication research herald openness. However, scholars have begun to question whether openness operates differently when considering th...
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Understanding parents’ sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use through the lens of relational dialectics theory 2.0 Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Aimee E. Miller-Ott, Lynne Kelly, Samantha Schultz
With the development of social media, parents must figure out how to guide their children’s use or even whether to allow it. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 parents of...
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Inclusion in the academic workplace: accounts of intercultural communication between faculty Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Alessia Zanin-Yost
ABSTRACT This study addresses how foreign faculty adapt their communicative behaviors to the academic workplace. Through a descriptive qualitative approach, the results showed how and why these adaptations occur and how culture is an undeniable component of communication. Two themes emerged, cultural expectations and accent. Together, these factors can prevent foreign faculty from fully adjusting to
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Smiling versus resting B**ch face: patients’ evaluations of male and female healthcare providers’ facial expressions Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Grace M. Hildenbrand, Evan K. Perrault, Mia I. Switzer
ABSTRACT Resting b**ch face (RBF) is described as an unintentional angry facial expression that is evaluated negatively and usually attributed to women. A 2 (smiling/RBF) x 2 (female/male provider) online experiment, guided by expectancy violations theory, investigated whether U.S. adults’ perceptions of a healthcare provider, medical care quality, and likelihood to make another appointment would be
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Athletes’ displaced dissent on social media: triggering agents, message strategies, and user-generated responses Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Gregory A. Cranmer, Spencer Peltz, Brandon Boatwright, Jimmy Sanderson, Angeline Scheinbaum
ABSTRACT Organizational dissent is ubiquitous in task-oriented groups, including sports teams and leagues. Yet, how and to whom that dissent is voiced and the responses to dissent can vary extensively. This study investigates how professional athletes enact displaced dissent and how the public reacts via sentiment analysis of Trevor Bauer’s YouTube channel. Findings identified 53 triggering agents
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A zoom teaching experiment using CTML principles of multimedia design Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Kevin C. Knoster, Alan K. Goodboy
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine how online synchronous teaching using Zoom might be enhanced by incorporating multimedia principles from the cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML). A live lecture teaching experiment was conducted where students were randomly assigned to attend a standard lesson on Zoom (control condition) or the same lesson but with the multimedia principles
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Re-visiting hope as a discrete emotion and its role in Persuasion Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Lijiang Shen, Shu Scott Li, Kelly Sweeney, Daniel Lee
ABSTRACT Revisiting hope as a discrete emotion, we investigated hope as a central concept in this study. Hope was explicated as a positive discrete emotion associated with a nonzero but uncertain prospect (with a probability between 0 and 1) of an unattained goal. Hope can be successfully induced with messages that highlight a discrepancy between the current state and an unattained goal in tandem with
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Parents’ and children’s affectionate communication and risky driving behaviors: a dyadic investigation Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Quinten S. Bernhold
ABSTRACT This dyadic study of middle-aged parents and young adult children tested if perceptions of receiving affectionate communication were associated with tendencies to (a) exceed the speed limit when driving and (b) drive after consuming alcohol. Among other findings, children’s perceptions of receiving verbal affection, nonverbal affection, and social support from their parent were negatively
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The moderating effects of goals and plans on received support during emerging adults’ conversations with friends Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Tara G. McManus
ABSTRACT The current study builds on the multiple goals approach and planning theory of communication to test how support seekers’ goals and plans for a conversation with a friend moderate the association between received support and conversation satisfaction. The results of the 3-group-comparison experimental design (N = 116; Condition 1: No goals and No plan, n = 38; Condition 2: Goals but No plan
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Supporting in solidarity: An examination of social support, advocacy, and barriers among birthing doulas Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Ginger Bihn-Coss, Nichole Egbert
ABSTRACT Doula assistance before, during, and after childbirth can reduce infant mortality, improve birth outcomes, and ensure a birthing person’s physical and emotional needs are met. However, doula care in the U.S. remains underutilized. Both birthing persons and medical providers may be unaware of the support roles doulas fulfill. The goal of this study is to examine how birth doulas communicate
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Post-incarcerated individuals’ online narratives: stories of desistance and “success” Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Alexandra S. Hinck, Lesley Withers, Shelly Schaefer Hinck, Rachel-Lynn Lee
ABSTRACT This study employed a qualitative thematic analysis to gain a deeper insight into post-incarcerated individuals’ narratives about the desistance process posted within an online, naturalistic context. We analyzed 87 online narratives from Prisontalk.com’s (Prison Talk Online; PTO) Success Stories forum, a discussion space focused on the transition to and life after post-incarceration. Four
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“Do You Really Want to be Disappointed?”: Adoptees’ Expectations and Violations During Birth Family Contact Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Christine K. Anzur
ABSTRACT The current study used an Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT) framework to explore the expectations that adult adoptees have as they begin to make contact with birth family members. Thirty-two semi-structured interviews with adoptees revealed expectations for birth family contact, violations that occurred during contact, and effects of those violations. Largely, expectations were negative,
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Emerging adults’ financial conversations with parents as mediators of family communication patterns and financial Independence Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Paul Schrodt, Madison George, Andrew M. Ledbetter
ABSTRACT This study examined emerging adults’ financial conversations with parents as mediators of family communication patterns (FCPs) (i.e., family conversation and conformity orientations) and emerging adults’ financial independence (i.e., financial autonomy and self-efficacy). Participants included 202 emerging adults ages 18 to 25. Whereas conversation orientation positively predicted both financial
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Using the communication theory of identity to examine identity negotiation among LGBTQ+ college students with multiple conflicting salient identities Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Viet D. Trinh, Sandra L. Faulkner
ABSTRACT We conducted in-depth interviews with 20 LGBTQ+ college students about their salient identities and identity negotiation strategies framing their experiences of negotiating identity gaps that created conflicts between their salient identities using the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI). Participants engaged in three main identity negotiation strategies including identity compartmentalization
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Sexual misconduct in politics: how intergroup biases affect judgments of a scandalized politician and partisan ambivalence Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Jian Shi, Adriana S. Mucedola, Tong Lin, Kandice N. Green
ABSTRACT Guided by social identity theory, this study sought to understand how ingroup biases relating to political identity moderates the relationship between individuals’ judgments of a politician’s credibility and their perceived partisan ambivalence when they are exposed to news coverage about a politician who addresses their sexual misconduct allegations. A total of 198 participants were randomly
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Adding amusement to anxiety: uses of humor in informal caregiver support groups Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Michelle M. Matter
ABSTRACT This study assessed how informal caregivers for people with dementia humorously communicate about their caregiving tasks and experiences. Support groups for informal caregivers for people with dementia were observed, and instances of humor were thematically analyzed. Informal caregivers used humor at specific moments, including when sharing struggles and exchanging advice, and they used various
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Testing the disclosure decision-making model: disclosing birth control status among college women Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Seulgi Park, Fan Yang, Molly Hayden, Amanda Morel
ABSTRACT Reproductive health communication can greatly benefit college women by providing informational and emotional support for their reproductive sexual health. However, communication about birth control with friends and sexual partners can be difficult especially if there is stigma around the topic. Applying the Disclosure Decision-Making Model, this study employs a survey of 104 college women
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There must be a villain: political threats, narrative thought, and political violence Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Bryan McLaughlin, Joshua A. Dunn, John A. Velez, Jeffrey Hunter
ABSTRACT This study examined the role political villains play in individuals’ political imagination, which can then lead to political violence. When there is a threatening villain, partisans should become more likely to construct elaborate narratives about the political world, which can lead them to believe the violence against the opposition is justified. Study 1 uses a survey to provide evidence
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Primitive or empowered: representations of Native Americans and COVID-19 in news media Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Theresa Davidson, Niya Pickett Miller, Bryan Day
ABSTRACT Historically, representations of Native Americans in media have tended toward a narrative of a people who are savage at worst, primitive and helpless at best. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Native Americans were often featured in news coverage about the viral outbreak. Using close textual analysis, this study differentiates between COVID-19 themed news stories featuring
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Communicating privilege and faculty allyship Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Lisa Kiyomi Hanasono, Hyun Kyoung Ro, Deborah A. O’Neil, Ellen M. Broido, Margaret Mary Yacobucci, Susana Peña, Karen V. Root
ABSTRACT As individuals who use their privilege to reduce prejudice, educate others about social justice, and actively stop discrimination, faculty allies can play a vital role in transforming universities to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. However, discrepancies persist in how faculty define privilege and communicate allyship. Drawing from standpoint theory, we examined discursive divergences
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Judicious invention: flexible application of judicial doctrine in the Roberts Court’s voting rights jurisprudence Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-19 John Banister
ABSTRACT The Roberts Court has issued several important voting rights decisions in the past decade that have enabled voting restrictions at the state and local level. This essay examines two of them, Shelby County v. Holder (2013) and Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute (2018). By juxtaposing the reasoning patterns of the majority opinions in Shelby County and Husted, I explore how the majorities
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Integrating relational turbulence theory and the theory of resilience and relational load to investigate the relationships of couples with chronic illness Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Kelly G. McAninch, Erin D. Basinger, Amy L. Delaney, Erin C. Wehrman
ABSTRACT Chronic illness is both prevalent in U.S. adults and influential in people’s lives and relationships. In this study, we integrate relational turbulence theory with the theory of resilience and relational load to consider associations between perceptions of the relationship, relational maintenance, and two global relationship qualities: resilience and relational load. Results from a cross-sectional
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“That’s it. i’m done with this team!”: public reactions to NFL teams’ racial activism as a function of social identity management Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Will Seaton, Gregory A Cranmer, Carla White, Joseph Bober, Kaley Humphrey, Andrew Obeng
ABSTRACT This study utilizes social identity theory to explore fan responses to the NFL teams’ racial advocacy on Twitter at the start of the 2020 football season. A content analysis of 2,868 direct replies and their corresponding user profiles was conducted. Findings supported SIT’s propositions about in-group bias, with commenters being more supportive and less critical of the activist messaging
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Perceptions of instructor injustice in COVID-19-imposed online courses: EFL students’ perceptions and experiences in focus Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Rebecca M. Chory, Kiyana Zhaleh, Masoomeh Estaji
ABSTRACT The present study explored Iranian students’ perceptions of unfair instructor behavior in COVID-19 crisis-prompted online language education. Through an online open-ended questionnaire, 91 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students reported their beliefs and experiences concerning instructor injustice in online classes. Results indicated that about two-thirds of the students
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Conversational partners’ interactions in response to co-present mobile phone usage Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Lynne Kelly, Robert L. Duran, Aimee E. Miller-Ott
ABSTRACT The goals of the two studies were to identify common communicative responses to co-present mobile phone usage and conversational partners’ reactions to that communication, and to determine whether individuals perceive their communicative responses as effective. Study 1 identified common participant responses and partner (i.e., phone user) reactions to those responses. In Study 2, researchers
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Fostering learning among women: the democratic outcomes of elaborative primes Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Freddie J. Jennings, Kelsey Wexler, Gabrielle Willingham, Kate Kenski
ABSTRACT The gender political knowledge gap has proven to be persistent and pervasive. It extends across time, geography, and cultures. When it comes to national politics, women demonstrate lower political knowledge than men, and this has a detrimental effect on a deliberative democracy. The current study employed an elaborative and political socialization theoretical perspective in addressing the
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The influence of physician use of analogies on patient understanding Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Grace M. Hildenbrand, Evan K. Perrault
ABSTRACT Health information can be difficult to understand, and physician analogies might enhance patient understanding. The present study investigated if physician analogies enhance participants’ objective and perceived understanding, and perceptions of clarity. The experiment consisted of a 2 (familiar/unfamiliar health condition) x 4 (no analogies, diagnosis analogies, treatment analogies, both
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Two-step flow and protesters: understanding what influenced participation in a George Floyd protests Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Aisha Powell
ABSTRACT This study examines the individual motivation of fourteen people who participated in a George Floyd protest during summer 2020. Using the two-step flow of communications model – which posits that individuals are not directly influenced by the media but instead by opinion leaders who interpret messaging and re-disseminated it – select participants of color were interviewed about why they protested
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Instructor misbehaviors as predictors of students’ writing apprehension Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Stephanie Kelly, Michelle Violanti, Emily Denton, Ian Berry
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to identify how instructor misbehaviors influence students’ writing apprehension. Research prior to this study determined that students’ writing performance is hindered by their writing apprehension (e.g., Zabihi, 2018 Zabihi, R. (2018). The role of cognitive and affective factors in measures of L2 writing. Written Communication, 35(1), 32–57. doi:10.1177/074
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“I looked it up and you’ll probably be fine”: cancer survivors’ perceptions of helpful and unhelpful support messages and sources Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Melissa Bekelja Wanzer, Jennifer Czapla
ABSTRACT This study replicated and extended existing research on cancer survivors’ perceptions of helpful and unhelpful social support messages and sources. Forty-three participants with diverse cancer experiences were interviewed about their perceptions of helpful and unhelpful social support messages and sources. Participants recalled six categories of helpful (i.e., network, emotional, esteem, tangible
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The Normal Heart and “sickly” body: The case of Matthew Bomer’s extreme weight loss Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Joshua H. Miller
ABSTRACT Actors often lose or gain weight to satisfy specific esthetics for their roles. When Matt Bomer reportedly lost forty pounds for The Normal Heart, public discourse went well beyond the typical explanation for the weight loss. That discourse explained Bomer’s body transformation as a part of his sacrificial duty to the gay community. Rhetors positioned Bomer’s weight loss as a sacrifice to
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Relational turbulence processes among avoidant and anxious spouses Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Alan K. Goodboy, San Bolkan, Matt Shin
ABSTRACT Relational turbulence theory (RTT) articulates processes that explain why spouses evaluate their marriages as chaotic. Specifically, RTT predicts that relational uncertainty biases cognitive appraisals about the marriage and that partner interference with daily routines heightens negative emotions toward the spouse, both of which, culminate in relational turbulence. Our study confirmed these
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Relational load when a romantic partner is unemployed: the role of communal coping and social network support Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Jenny L. Crowley, Joshua R. Pederson
ABSTRACT Romantic partners of unemployed individuals uniquely experience stress due to spillover effects of unemployment and their role as primary support providers for the unemployed individual. The present study drew on the extended theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC) to examine a process of communal coping experienced by romantic partners (N = 285) of unemployed individuals, who completed
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College student accounts of coping and social support during COVID-19 impacted learning Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Julie Apker
ABSTRACT This study explores how coping and social support assist students in managing communication stressors with two key academic groups─instructors and classmates─during COVID-19. Undergraduates (N = 70) provided open-ended responses of how they cope with stressful interactions. Grounded, iterative analysis reveals two themes. First, students use problem-focused coping by seeking informational
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Aggressive Superior-Subordinate Communication as a Predictor of Occupational Outcomes among Roman Catholic Sisters and Priests in India Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Sean M. Horan, Rebecca M. Chory, Peter Raposo
ABSTRACT The research reported here responds to two calls for research: 1) to study organizational communication in religious settings, and 2) to extend the study of communication beyond WEIRD samples (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic). In answering those calls, we examined aggressive superior-subordinate communication in ecclesiastical occupations (EO) in the Roman Catholic Church
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“To God, I Was Visible, and I Was Beautiful”: Parody and religious organizational resisting within (UN)CHANGED online narratives Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Katie Kassler, Amorette Hinderaker
ABSTRACT Evangelical Christian groups have forwarded ex-gay rhetorics since the 1970s, shaping grand narratives of LGBTQIA+ exclusion within Christian spaces. Using a dialectic approach to organizational resistance, the current study traces the textual discursive interplay between narratives of the ex-gay Christian organization, CHANGED, and of the parody pro-LGBTQIA+ Christian organization UNCHANGED
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Is a success story of an underdog more powerful than one of a similar other? examining effects of model similarity and success attribution on intention to exercise Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Lihong Quan, Sungeun Chung, Youllee Kim, Jiyeon So
ABSTRACT Success stories are often used to promote health behaviors. This study examined how different features of others’ success stories about achieving an exercise goal influence observers’ intentions to exercise. The specific factors examined were success stories’ model similarity (similar vs. underdog model) and success attribution type (internal vs. external attribution message) on individuals’
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Trust as a mediator between family communication patterns and relational maintenance in grandparent-adult child-grandchild relationships Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Jenna McNallie, Patricia E. Gettings
ABSTRACT Grandparents in the United States play increasingly significant familial and societal roles, yet an underexplored aspect of their experiences is how the relationship between grandparents and their adult child influences the development of grandparent-grandchild relationships. To address this gap, this study explores (a) the associations between family communication patterns and grandparent-grandchild
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Exploring students’ perceptions of instructor requests for forms of address and students’ appraisals of the instructor Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Kristen L. Farris, Madeline Martinson, Jovana Andelkovic, Luke A. Dye
ABSTRACT Guided by predicted outcome value (POV) theory, we explore how instructors’ forms of address (FOA) during the first class day impact students’ POV judgments and their perceptions of instructors’ credibility and socio-communicative orientation. College students (N = 416) were randomly assigned to view one of six stimulus videos varying by FOA (e.g., “Doctor,” “Professor,” first name) and instructor
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“Sit down and talk”: Doctor Who and an imperfect peace myth Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Cynthia Rosenfeld
ABSTRACT The globalized age of the Anthropocene, a spacetime in which humans regularly come into contact with other human and non-human ways-of-life, creates an exigence for stories that encourage living together-in-difference, or peace myths. In “The Zygon Inversion,” Doctor Who offers an imperfect peace myth that saves two species from war. To illuminate this myth, this essay first discusses the
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Influence and personality: relationships among superdiffuser traits and big five traits Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-09 Christopher J. Carpenter, Tim Levine, Kim B Serota, Tony Docan-Morgan
ABSTRACT A survey was conducted (N = 632) to determine which of the Big Five personality traits tended to be related to each of the three traits specified in the superdiffuser model of diffusion and influence (connector, persuader, maven). The purpose of the study was to better understand the traits that form the core of the superdiffuser model of opinion leadership and to inform methods of recruiting
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Return to Teamsterville: A reconsideration and dialogue on ethnography and critique Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Mark Ward Sr., Leland G. Spencer, Craig O. Stewart, Elisa M. Varela
ABSTRACT As the places of monuments are reconsidered today in light of social justice concerns, the authors revisit a “monument” of language and social interaction (LSI) research. Philipsen’s foundational work published nearly 50 years ago, “Speaking ‘Like a Man’ in Teamsterville,” thus becomes a starting point for dialogue among four scholars with diverse views on the critical voice in ethnography