Pub Date : 2018-05-04DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1380209
Eryn N. Bostwick, A. Johnson
This study seeks to add to previous research regarding family secrets by exploring intrafamily and individual family secrets from a family communication pattern and parent–young adult child conflict style perspective. Results showed conversation orientation, conformity orientation, or conflict styles did not predict disclosure separately. However, the use of a collaborating conflict style did indirectly mediate the relationship between conversation orientation and disclosure, but only for those individuals whose families have a low level of conformity orientation.
{"title":"Family Secrets: The Roles of Family Communication Patterns and Conflict Styles between Parents and Young Adult Children","authors":"Eryn N. Bostwick, A. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1380209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1380209","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to add to previous research regarding family secrets by exploring intrafamily and individual family secrets from a family communication pattern and parent–young adult child conflict style perspective. Results showed conversation orientation, conformity orientation, or conflict styles did not predict disclosure separately. However, the use of a collaborating conflict style did indirectly mediate the relationship between conversation orientation and disclosure, but only for those individuals whose families have a low level of conformity orientation.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1380209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49604855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-04DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1386792
A. Denes, J. P. Crowley, Shana Makos, Joseph Whitt, Kirsten Graham
The present study extends previous work on communication after sexual activity by investigating the influence of “pillow talk” over time within relationships that have experienced a recent transgression. Thirty-six participants who had experienced a transgression committed by a current dating partner provided information about their levels of relational uncertainty, amount of pillow talk, and relational outcomes. Findings revealed that, over the course of a month, increased changes in pillow talk were negatively associated with uncertainty and positively associated with several relational outcomes. Self and relationship uncertainty also mediated the associations between pillow talk and several relational outcomes. These results provide insight into how pillow talk might play a protective function in helping dating partners manage uncertainty following a relational transgression.
{"title":"Navigating Difficult Times with Pillow Talk: Post Sex Communication as a Strategy for Mitigating Uncertainty Following Relational Transgressions","authors":"A. Denes, J. P. Crowley, Shana Makos, Joseph Whitt, Kirsten Graham","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1386792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1386792","url":null,"abstract":"The present study extends previous work on communication after sexual activity by investigating the influence of “pillow talk” over time within relationships that have experienced a recent transgression. Thirty-six participants who had experienced a transgression committed by a current dating partner provided information about their levels of relational uncertainty, amount of pillow talk, and relational outcomes. Findings revealed that, over the course of a month, increased changes in pillow talk were negatively associated with uncertainty and positively associated with several relational outcomes. Self and relationship uncertainty also mediated the associations between pillow talk and several relational outcomes. These results provide insight into how pillow talk might play a protective function in helping dating partners manage uncertainty following a relational transgression.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1386792","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45320180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-02-09DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2018.1434554
A. Billings, Qingru Xu, James R. Angelini, P. MacArthur
Gymnastics is one of the most popular sports at the Summer Olympics in both the United States and China. This study content analyzes more than 23 hours of Olympic gymnastics at the 2016 Rio Games on NBC and CCTV, examining potential framing differences pertaining to nationality and biological sex. Findings reveal that, in terms of name mentions, NBC favored female and domestic gymnasts, yet CCTV devoted more mentions to male and nondomestic gymnasts. Regarding word-by-word descriptors, multiple significant differences strongly suggest that the two networks depict gymnasts in substantially different manners. Discussions and research directions are also offered.
{"title":"Lost in Translation—and Transmission: Contrasting Chinese and U.S. Gymnastics Television Coverage in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games","authors":"A. Billings, Qingru Xu, James R. Angelini, P. MacArthur","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2018.1434554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2018.1434554","url":null,"abstract":"Gymnastics is one of the most popular sports at the Summer Olympics in both the United States and China. This study content analyzes more than 23 hours of Olympic gymnastics at the 2016 Rio Games on NBC and CCTV, examining potential framing differences pertaining to nationality and biological sex. Findings reveal that, in terms of name mentions, NBC favored female and domestic gymnasts, yet CCTV devoted more mentions to male and nondomestic gymnasts. Regarding word-by-word descriptors, multiple significant differences strongly suggest that the two networks depict gymnasts in substantially different manners. Discussions and research directions are also offered.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2018.1434554","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41252321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-24DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1423094
C. Kennedy-Lightsey
The current study focused on how perceptions of a partner’s relational maintenance behavior relate to the degree to which an individual reports experiencing cognitive jealousy and using constructive communicative responses to jealousy. Additionally, this study examined the mediating role of relationship uncertainty in the associations between maintenance and cognitive jealousy, as well as maintenance and constructive responses. Participants were 192 individuals who were involved in a romantic relationship who completed surveys about their partners’ relational maintenance behaviors and their own levels of cognitive jealousy, relationship uncertainty, and constructive responses. Results revealed perceived partner relational maintenance behaviors were negatively associated with cognitive jealousy and relationship uncertainty. Additionally, relationship uncertainty mediated the associations between maintenance and cognitive jealousy, integrative communication, and compensatory restoration.
{"title":"Cognitive Jealousy and Constructive Communication: The Role of Perceived Partner Maintenance and Uncertainty","authors":"C. Kennedy-Lightsey","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1423094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1423094","url":null,"abstract":"The current study focused on how perceptions of a partner’s relational maintenance behavior relate to the degree to which an individual reports experiencing cognitive jealousy and using constructive communicative responses to jealousy. Additionally, this study examined the mediating role of relationship uncertainty in the associations between maintenance and cognitive jealousy, as well as maintenance and constructive responses. Participants were 192 individuals who were involved in a romantic relationship who completed surveys about their partners’ relational maintenance behaviors and their own levels of cognitive jealousy, relationship uncertainty, and constructive responses. Results revealed perceived partner relational maintenance behaviors were negatively associated with cognitive jealousy and relationship uncertainty. Additionally, relationship uncertainty mediated the associations between maintenance and cognitive jealousy, integrative communication, and compensatory restoration.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1423094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43272685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1364777
Lin Zhu, Deepa Anagondahalli
This study examined the effect of student academic entitlement (AE) on student satisfaction. A mediation model was proposed in which AE affects student observation of instructor nonverbal immediacy (NVI), which affects instructor credibility, which in turn affects student satisfaction. Participants were 483 undergraduate students who completed an online survey. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized model and results indicated that: (1) one subfactor of AE (i.e., demanding attitudes) had significant negative effects on student satisfaction indirectly, and such effects were mediated through instructor NVI and credibility; (2) NVI had a significant positive influence on instructor credibility, which affected student satisfaction; and (3) neither AE nor NVI directly affected student satisfaction. Finding implications and future research directions are discussed.
{"title":"Predicting Student Satisfaction: The Role of Academic Entitlement and Nonverbal Immediacy","authors":"Lin Zhu, Deepa Anagondahalli","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1364777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1364777","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the effect of student academic entitlement (AE) on student satisfaction. A mediation model was proposed in which AE affects student observation of instructor nonverbal immediacy (NVI), which affects instructor credibility, which in turn affects student satisfaction. Participants were 483 undergraduate students who completed an online survey. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized model and results indicated that: (1) one subfactor of AE (i.e., demanding attitudes) had significant negative effects on student satisfaction indirectly, and such effects were mediated through instructor NVI and credibility; (2) NVI had a significant positive influence on instructor credibility, which affected student satisfaction; and (3) neither AE nor NVI directly affected student satisfaction. Finding implications and future research directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1364777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48426293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1355973
Eric B. Meiners
Research in role negotiation emphasizes how organizational members and supervisors negotiate specialized arrangements involving flexibility or variety within a single job. The role enrichment perspective suggests that positive resources generated in one role can benefit performance in complementary roles as well. This study examines the relationships among role negotiation and role enrichment with a sample of employed college undergraduates (N = 146). Survey measures assessed the communication dimensions of role negotiation (i.e., information exchange and mutual concessions), flexibility and task arrangements, and instrumental and affective enrichment of the student role. Task-based arrangements at work fully mediated the effect of information exchange, and partially mediated the effect of mutual concessions, on instrumental enrichment.
{"title":"Role Negotiation as Role Enrichment: A Study of Working College Students","authors":"Eric B. Meiners","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1355973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1355973","url":null,"abstract":"Research in role negotiation emphasizes how organizational members and supervisors negotiate specialized arrangements involving flexibility or variety within a single job. The role enrichment perspective suggests that positive resources generated in one role can benefit performance in complementary roles as well. This study examines the relationships among role negotiation and role enrichment with a sample of employed college undergraduates (N = 146). Survey measures assessed the communication dimensions of role negotiation (i.e., information exchange and mutual concessions), flexibility and task arrangements, and instrumental and affective enrichment of the student role. Task-based arrangements at work fully mediated the effect of information exchange, and partially mediated the effect of mutual concessions, on instrumental enrichment.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1355973","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47679208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1335760
Jessica Gasiorek, Marko Dragojevic
Guided by communication accommodation theory, this study examined how the success or failure of accomplishing an instrumental goal affects people’s perceptions of objectively underaccommodative messages and corresponding sources. Participants (N = 141) completed two map-based tasks that required them to follow directions that contained insufficient information (i.e., were underaccommodative). Participants received feedback about their accuracy in completing the task. Consistent with predictions, successful participants perceived the directions as more accommodative and clear, and inferred more positive motives and higher levels of perspective-taking by the direction-giver (compared to unsuccessful participants). These results identify instrumental success/failure as a factor that leads people to interpret the same communication adjustments differently, and that contributes to perceptions of communication adjustments as problematic.
{"title":"Effects of Instrumental Success and Failure on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Messages and Sources","authors":"Jessica Gasiorek, Marko Dragojevic","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1335760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1335760","url":null,"abstract":"Guided by communication accommodation theory, this study examined how the success or failure of accomplishing an instrumental goal affects people’s perceptions of objectively underaccommodative messages and corresponding sources. Participants (N = 141) completed two map-based tasks that required them to follow directions that contained insufficient information (i.e., were underaccommodative). Participants received feedback about their accuracy in completing the task. Consistent with predictions, successful participants perceived the directions as more accommodative and clear, and inferred more positive motives and higher levels of perspective-taking by the direction-giver (compared to unsuccessful participants). These results identify instrumental success/failure as a factor that leads people to interpret the same communication adjustments differently, and that contributes to perceptions of communication adjustments as problematic.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1335760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46828639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1370722
Erin K. Ruppel
People tend to prefer lean communication channels (i.e., those with fewer cues and a time lag between message receipt and reply) when they anticipate that an interaction will threaten their face. However, the role of relationship type in this phenomenon is underexplored. Participants (N = 231) responded to hypothetical face-threatening scenarios about close or casual friends. Participants who reported on casual friends perceived higher face threat and were more likely to prefer lean channels. Perceived effectiveness and appropriateness of channels also varied by relationship type and channel preference. These findings highlight the importance of relationship type in face-threatening scenarios and suggest that associations between relationship type, perceived face threat, and channel preference are more complicated than previously proposed.
{"title":"Preference for and Perceived Competence of Communication Technology Affordances in Face-Threatening Scenarios","authors":"Erin K. Ruppel","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1370722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1370722","url":null,"abstract":"People tend to prefer lean communication channels (i.e., those with fewer cues and a time lag between message receipt and reply) when they anticipate that an interaction will threaten their face. However, the role of relationship type in this phenomenon is underexplored. Participants (N = 231) responded to hypothetical face-threatening scenarios about close or casual friends. Participants who reported on casual friends perceived higher face threat and were more likely to prefer lean channels. Perceived effectiveness and appropriateness of channels also varied by relationship type and channel preference. These findings highlight the importance of relationship type in face-threatening scenarios and suggest that associations between relationship type, perceived face threat, and channel preference are more complicated than previously proposed.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1370722","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48639989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2017.1310271
Mackensie Minniear, Alan L. Sillars, Katherine Shuy
Communication within peer networks can encourage or discourage health risk behaviors among emerging adults, such as binge drinking and sexual hookups. This research considers how emerging adults respond to disclosure of risky behavior from friends depending on the medium for disclosure. College students reported on risk disclosures received when interacting over rich media (e.g., face-to-face, phone, video chat) or lean media (e.g., texting, e-mail, instant messaging). Students showed less concern for managing identity and emotive impacts of the interaction when communicating via lean media, and they responded by disconfirming the disclosure if they privately disapproved. By contrast, responses to risk disclosure via rich media were characterized by greater goal complexity and did not relate to private approval/disapproval of risky behavior.
{"title":"Risky Business: Disclosures of Risky Behavior Among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age","authors":"Mackensie Minniear, Alan L. Sillars, Katherine Shuy","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2017.1310271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2017.1310271","url":null,"abstract":"Communication within peer networks can encourage or discourage health risk behaviors among emerging adults, such as binge drinking and sexual hookups. This research considers how emerging adults respond to disclosure of risky behavior from friends depending on the medium for disclosure. College students reported on risk disclosures received when interacting over rich media (e.g., face-to-face, phone, video chat) or lean media (e.g., texting, e-mail, instant messaging). Students showed less concern for managing identity and emotive impacts of the interaction when communicating via lean media, and they responded by disconfirming the disclosure if they privately disapproved. By contrast, responses to risk disclosure via rich media were characterized by greater goal complexity and did not relate to private approval/disapproval of risky behavior.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2017.1310271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48653265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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