Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2131897
Jenna S. Abetz, L. Romo, Chandler Marr
ABSTRACT Despite the prevalence of frenemy references in popular culture and the significant impacts these relationships invariably can have on our lives, frenemy scholarship is limited, contradictory, and often used synonymously with ambivalent relationships. This study draws from 29 interviews to develop an empirical definition of the term frenemy. Results illustrate that study participants conceptualize the term as a relationship, often negative, steeped in situational ties and shared social connections that outwardly appears friendly, but is fraught with underlying competition, jealousy, or distrust. This study offers a more nuanced and refined definition of the term and suggests that frenemy is distinct from and should not be conflated with ambivalent relationships. Articulating and exploring frenemy dynamics provides insight into the development and enactment of these relationships.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2131896
Irene G. Sarmiento-Lawrence, Lyn M. van Swol
ABSTRACT Previous research has made a call to study how attachment processes affect advice communication in romantic relationships. Examining participants’ perceptions of romantic partner’s advice, using Advice Response Theory and attachment theory, this study sought to determine how attachment styles moderate the associations between perceived advice message factors and implementation. Participants (N = 272) completed an online questionnaire. More avoidant and more anxious participants were less likely to implement advice. Attachment-avoidance moderated the effects of perceived negative facework and confirmation on increased advice implementation. Attachment-anxiety moderated the effects of perceived confirmation on increased advice implementation. Findings provide theoretical support and extension for attachment theory, romantic relationships, and advice.
{"title":"Testing the Role of Attachment Styles in Advice Response Theory","authors":"Irene G. Sarmiento-Lawrence, Lyn M. van Swol","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2131896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2131896","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous research has made a call to study how attachment processes affect advice communication in romantic relationships. Examining participants’ perceptions of romantic partner’s advice, using Advice Response Theory and attachment theory, this study sought to determine how attachment styles moderate the associations between perceived advice message factors and implementation. Participants (N = 272) completed an online questionnaire. More avoidant and more anxious participants were less likely to implement advice. Attachment-avoidance moderated the effects of perceived negative facework and confirmation on increased advice implementation. Attachment-anxiety moderated the effects of perceived confirmation on increased advice implementation. Findings provide theoretical support and extension for attachment theory, romantic relationships, and advice.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"97 1","pages":"117 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84417318","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 : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2134445
Reed Van Schenck
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Pub Date : 2022-10-08DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2130966
Trevor Kauer, Tricia J. Burke
ABSTRACT Emerging adults leaving home face an important transition. Despite increased independence, parent communication continues to influence weight/body perceptions. Emerging adults (N = 202) reported on a parent’s use of Family Communication Patterns (FCP) and social control to predict three outcomes: weight concern, body dissatisfaction, and weight-related communication apprehension (WRCA). Mediation analysis revealed that participants from conformity-oriented families reported greater weight concern and WRCA through a parent’s use of greater negative social control. Participants from conversation-oriented families reported lower weight concern and WRCA through a parent’s use of lower negative social control. Theoretical implications are offered to explain how FCP climates are associated with body-concept outcomes via social control behaviors, and practical implications are offered for family-focused health practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2123029
K. Wise
ABSTRACT This study focused on communication between veterinary professionals and clients when pet owners are considering the euthanasia of a pet. Sixteen veterinarians and veterinary technicians participated in semi-structured interviews. The prevalent theme mentioned by participants about what they regarded as most important when discussing euthanasia was, to use a general term, caring. All participants stressed the importance of caring, voicing comments that reflected the need to convey sympathy, empathy, or co
{"title":"Veterinary Conversations about Euthanasia: A Call for Compassionate Communication Training","authors":"K. Wise","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2123029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2123029","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focused on communication between veterinary professionals and clients when pet owners are considering the euthanasia of a pet. Sixteen veterinarians and veterinary technicians participated in semi-structured interviews. The prevalent theme mentioned by participants about what they regarded as most important when discussing euthanasia was, to use a general term, caring. All participants stressed the importance of caring, voicing comments that reflected the need to convey sympathy, empathy, or co","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"67 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82384936","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 : 2022-09-18DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2118364
Larissa Terán, Y.-G.K. Shin, Jian Jiao
ABSTRACT Three primary purposes guided the present study: to examine the role of adolescents’ favorite television character characteristics on adolescents’ wishful identification toward the characters’ job, to examine the role of television and family on adolescents’ vocational anticipatory socialization, and to explore whether the associations varied by gender. Data were collected from 330 adolescents. Intrinsic work values, easy-going work perceptions (as reported by the adolescents), and gender of adolescent girls’ favorite television characters were positively associated with wishful identification. The television characters’ easy-going work perceptions were positively associated with adolescent boys’ and girls’ own easy-going work aspirations. Finally, communication with parents about work moderated the association between parents’ and adolescent boys’ and girls’ easy-going work aspirations.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2121002
J. Keohane
ABSTRACT This essay explores the history of the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. as a lens on the shifting nature of U.S. public memory. The National Civic Art Society (NCAS) opposed the memorial plans in a vitriolic report. I argue that the NCAS seeks to regain control of D.C.’s memorial landscape via commemorative containment. Their rhetoric on the memorial emphasizes scarcity, suggesting only certain commemoration is appropriate. In narrating Eisenhower’s biography, attacking the process, and defining citizenship as obedience, the NCAS report commemoratively contains the memorial. Doing so centers whiteness and limits the multiplicity of stories told on the National Mall.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2121003
John Russell
ABSTRACT By the spring of 2022 there were nearly 200 bills making their way through 40 state legislatures that explicitly prevented public schools from teaching “divisive subjects” that could make some students feel “discomfort.” Nearly all included language that banned supposed concepts of critical race theory (CRT) or the 1619 Project. The attacks on and misrepresentations of CRT illustrate whiteness’s preferred memory of U.S. history as a rhetorical vehicle for sustaining political, economic, and social power. I offer here an argument for what a preferred memory looks like, how it is constructed, and why. I suggest that popular American movies have overwhelmingly created discourses of race that comfort and sustain whiteness. I use the 2011 film, The Help to show how narratives comfort whiteness and define racism through collective nostalgia and intentional ignorance. I then identify several key strategies whiteness employs to “insulate itself against refutation” while reaffirming racism as strictly an interpersonal phenomenon.
{"title":"Comforting and Sustaining Whiteness in the ‘Post-Racial’ Era: The Help, Collective Nostalgia, and White Ignorance","authors":"John Russell","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2121003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2121003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By the spring of 2022 there were nearly 200 bills making their way through 40 state legislatures that explicitly prevented public schools from teaching “divisive subjects” that could make some students feel “discomfort.” Nearly all included language that banned supposed concepts of critical race theory (CRT) or the 1619 Project. The attacks on and misrepresentations of CRT illustrate whiteness’s preferred memory of U.S. history as a rhetorical vehicle for sustaining political, economic, and social power. I offer here an argument for what a preferred memory looks like, how it is constructed, and why. I suggest that popular American movies have overwhelmingly created discourses of race that comfort and sustain whiteness. I use the 2011 film, The Help to show how narratives comfort whiteness and define racism through collective nostalgia and intentional ignorance. I then identify several key strategies whiteness employs to “insulate itself against refutation” while reaffirming racism as strictly an interpersonal phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"312 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82802846","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 : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2118365
Amanda M. Carpenter, Jennifer A. Theiss
ABSTRACT This study modeled associations between depressive symptoms, information and relationship assessments, and efficacy as predictors of topic avoidance about mental health. We proposed a model, drawing on previous research and the disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM). A sample of 304 individuals with a self-reported mental illness completed an online survey about their diagnosis and their intentions to share information about their mental health. Results of a structural equation model found: (a) depressive symptoms were positively associated with stigma and anticipated outcome, (b) anticipated response was negatively associated with disclosure efficacy, (c) disclosure efficacy was negatively associated with topic avoidance, and (d) stigma was positively associated with topic avoidance about mental health. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
{"title":"Modeling the Factors Associated with Topic Avoidance about Mental Health: Depressive Symptoms, Information and Relationship Assessments, and Efficacy","authors":"Amanda M. Carpenter, Jennifer A. Theiss","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2118365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2118365","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study modeled associations between depressive symptoms, information and relationship assessments, and efficacy as predictors of topic avoidance about mental health. We proposed a model, drawing on previous research and the disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM). A sample of 304 individuals with a self-reported mental illness completed an online survey about their diagnosis and their intentions to share information about their mental health. Results of a structural equation model found: (a) depressive symptoms were positively associated with stigma and anticipated outcome, (b) anticipated response was negatively associated with disclosure efficacy, (c) disclosure efficacy was negatively associated with topic avoidance, and (d) stigma was positively associated with topic avoidance about mental health. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"16 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76900459","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 : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2117402
R. Dorough
ABSTRACT Communication skills with patients and healthcare teams has continued to be one of the main topics of discussion within medical education and has intensified over the past few years. Although communication is not a disease to be named, or a specific medical problem, the innovation is continuously reconstructed and redefined regarding how to be utilized for better healthcare. This paper uses policy analysis to argue that interaction between physicians and patients is an essential part of the medical community in communication, and thus it has been medicalized. Examining the medical profession’s policies will demonstrate that the medicalization of communication exists by being an integral part of physician practice and education and is the medical community.
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