Pub Date : 2020-09-19DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1822845
A. A. Affram, Annabella Osei‐Tutu, V. Dzokoto
ABSTRACT We interviewed 34 married individuals between the ages of 32 and 69 in Southern Ghana regarding conflict handling strategies they adopt in their in-law relationships. We conceptualized the strategies around face concerns. Findings from inductive thematic analysis support participant use of five main conflict handling strategies: human/divine third-party engagements, obsequious behavior, apologizing, ignoring, and confronting. These strategies map onto considerations for other-face concerns as well as mutual face concerns. Findings offer insights about conflict, face concerns, and in-law relationships within a previously understudied cultural context.
{"title":"Conflict Handling in Ghanaian In-law Relationships: Implications for Face Concerns","authors":"A. A. Affram, Annabella Osei‐Tutu, V. Dzokoto","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2020.1822845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1822845","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We interviewed 34 married individuals between the ages of 32 and 69 in Southern Ghana regarding conflict handling strategies they adopt in their in-law relationships. We conceptualized the strategies around face concerns. Findings from inductive thematic analysis support participant use of five main conflict handling strategies: human/divine third-party engagements, obsequious behavior, apologizing, ignoring, and confronting. These strategies map onto considerations for other-face concerns as well as mutual face concerns. Findings offer insights about conflict, face concerns, and in-law relationships within a previously understudied cultural context.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"20 1","pages":"285 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2020.1822845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48973066","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 : 2020-09-19DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1823395
H. Lillie, Maria K. Venetis
ABSTRACT As the population ages, siblings more frequently assume the role of filial caregiver. Siblings often avoid communication about caregiving, and this topic avoidance can be detrimental to well-being. Framed in the communication privacy management theory (CPM), the current study tests the associations between privacy rule criteria and siblings’ caregiving topic avoidance and the impact of topic avoidance on relationship satisfaction and depression. A sample of 415 caregivers, including 242 primary caregivers and 173 secondary caregivers, completed an online survey regarding their caregiving communication with a sibling. Topic avoidance about both parent well-being and sibling caregiving were positively associated with privacy rule criteria of parent health, liking, and risk-benefit ratio and negatively associated with trust. Parent well-being topic avoidance was associated positively with primary caregivers’ depression and negatively with relationship satisfaction for both primary and secondary caregivers. Sibling caregiving topic avoidance was associated positively with depression and negatively with relationship satisfaction for both primary and secondary caregivers.
{"title":"Topic Avoidance as a Privacy Management Strategy: Outcomes and Predictors of Parent Well-being and Sibling Caregiving Topic Avoidance","authors":"H. Lillie, Maria K. Venetis","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2020.1823395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1823395","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As the population ages, siblings more frequently assume the role of filial caregiver. Siblings often avoid communication about caregiving, and this topic avoidance can be detrimental to well-being. Framed in the communication privacy management theory (CPM), the current study tests the associations between privacy rule criteria and siblings’ caregiving topic avoidance and the impact of topic avoidance on relationship satisfaction and depression. A sample of 415 caregivers, including 242 primary caregivers and 173 secondary caregivers, completed an online survey regarding their caregiving communication with a sibling. Topic avoidance about both parent well-being and sibling caregiving were positively associated with privacy rule criteria of parent health, liking, and risk-benefit ratio and negatively associated with trust. Parent well-being topic avoidance was associated positively with primary caregivers’ depression and negatively with relationship satisfaction for both primary and secondary caregivers. Sibling caregiving topic avoidance was associated positively with depression and negatively with relationship satisfaction for both primary and secondary caregivers.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"20 1","pages":"313 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2020.1823395","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48111272","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 : 2020-09-06DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1819283
J. Crowley, L. Miller
ABSTRACT In the United States (U.S.), 130 people die every day from an opioid overdose, and family is an influential factor in people’s experience of opioid use disorder (OUD). Although a growing body of research examines the communication of families affected by substance use, little research considers the impact of addiction on family relationships from the perspective of people with a substance use disorder. Guided by family systems theory (FST), this study investigated people with OUD’s perceptions of how addiction shapes, and is shaped by, family communication. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 41 individuals with OUD. Five characteristics of FST illuminated how people with OUD communicatively experience family: patterns/rules, feedback, openness, interdependence, and equifinality. Systems components revealed how dynamic and ongoing patterns of communication in the family present opportunities and challenges for recovery. Implications for FST and communication about substance use are discussed.
{"title":"How People with Opioid Use Disorder Communicatively Experience Family: A Family Systems Approach","authors":"J. Crowley, L. Miller","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2020.1819283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1819283","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the United States (U.S.), 130 people die every day from an opioid overdose, and family is an influential factor in people’s experience of opioid use disorder (OUD). Although a growing body of research examines the communication of families affected by substance use, little research considers the impact of addiction on family relationships from the perspective of people with a substance use disorder. Guided by family systems theory (FST), this study investigated people with OUD’s perceptions of how addiction shapes, and is shaped by, family communication. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 41 individuals with OUD. Five characteristics of FST illuminated how people with OUD communicatively experience family: patterns/rules, feedback, openness, interdependence, and equifinality. Systems components revealed how dynamic and ongoing patterns of communication in the family present opportunities and challenges for recovery. Implications for FST and communication about substance use are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"20 1","pages":"298 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2020.1819283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45101240","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 : 2020-07-17DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1794872
Maria Butauski, H. Horstman
ABSTRACT Guided by communicated narrative sense-making (CNSM) theory, we surveyed parents (n= 133) to elicit retrospective stories of their child’s coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) and to assess perceptions of their child’s communicated perspective-taking (CPT) during the coming out process. Themes emerging from parents’ stories included casual acceptance, supporting, acknowledging their struggle, and learning. Themes and their links to parents’ individual and relational well-being underscored connections between positively-framed retrospective storytelling content, narrative resilience, and well-being, as proposed in CNSM theory. CPT was also positively related to parents’ individual and relational well-being, demonstrating the benefits of LGBT children taking the perspective of their parent when coming out. Findings suggest an extension of CNSM theory’s second proposition, sharpen the conceptualization of narrative resilience, and highlight the important role of CPT to sense-making and individual and relational well-being.
{"title":"Parents’ Retrospective Storytelling of Their Child’s Coming Out: Investigating Contributions of Communicated Perspective-Taking in Relation to Well-Being","authors":"Maria Butauski, H. Horstman","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2020.1794872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1794872","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Guided by communicated narrative sense-making (CNSM) theory, we surveyed parents (n= 133) to elicit retrospective stories of their child’s coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) and to assess perceptions of their child’s communicated perspective-taking (CPT) during the coming out process. Themes emerging from parents’ stories included casual acceptance, supporting, acknowledging their struggle, and learning. Themes and their links to parents’ individual and relational well-being underscored connections between positively-framed retrospective storytelling content, narrative resilience, and well-being, as proposed in CNSM theory. CPT was also positively related to parents’ individual and relational well-being, demonstrating the benefits of LGBT children taking the perspective of their parent when coming out. Findings suggest an extension of CNSM theory’s second proposition, sharpen the conceptualization of narrative resilience, and highlight the important role of CPT to sense-making and individual and relational well-being.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"20 1","pages":"345 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2020.1794872","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44535301","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 : 2020-07-09DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1790563
William P. Eveland, Amy I. Nathanson
ABSTRACT Scholars studying ethnic-racial socialization often call for research with larger and more representative samples to permit comparison of the behaviors of members of various ethnic-racial subgroups. Moreover, research has highlighted the value of examining contextual variables that may influence ethnic-racial socialization behaviors. With a backdrop of the racially charged 2016 United States (U.S.) presidential election campaign, national survey data from White, Black, and Hispanic parents of children ages 6 to 17 were merged with geographic race data. Findings reveal that characteristics of parents (including partisanship) and children (especially age), as well as dyadic characteristics of the parent–child (e.g., general talk frequency and campaign-related talk) and of the geographic context (i.e., county racial composition) affect the frequency of parent–child racism talk. Many predictors vary in their importance by parent ethnicity-race. For instance, White parents talk about racism less, and Black parents more, when Whites numerically dominate the county in which they reside.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-04DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1773468
C. Thompson, Sarah M. Parsloe, Michelle Acevedo Callejas
ABSTRACT Uncertainty is inherent to the illness experience; for those who are not ill themselves, the inability to directly access another person’s embodied experiences can heighten feelings of uncertainty. Doubt about the extent to which others are ill is a common and consequential form of partner uncertainty that we focus on in this study. Guided by Goldsmith’s (2001, 2004, 2016) normative framework, we analyzed data from interviews with 32 individuals (M age = 35.28, SD = 9.91; 72% female), uncovering how participants struggled to manage their doubt of family members’ health and to respond in normatively supportive ways to family members’ health claims. Each uncertainty management strategy for seeking and avoiding information, obtaining social support, and adjusting to chronic doubt often risked valued identities and relationships. This study illuminates the underrepresented perspective of individuals who doubt family members’ health issues and the challenges they face as support providers.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-19DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1767621
Dacheng Zhang, Yea-Wen Chen
ABSTRACT Same-sex parenting in the United States (U.S.) is a rich site for scholars across disciplines to deepen more nuanced and complex understandings of diverse family dynamics. Despite the existence of this growing population that diversifies U.S. family values, communication scholars have long neglected same-sex households in their research agenda. In this qualitative study, we deploy queer theory to expose and call into question the cultural binary between homosexuality and heterosexuality in determining what is viewed as a good and/or culturally acceptable family, through the voices of gay adoptive parents. These voices aim to present how same-sex parents challenge and interrogate normative family discourses and parenting practices. The findings of twenty in-depth interviews identified two interrelated themes. The first theme, queering heteronormative family imagery, unpacks how participants problematize certain heteronormative ideologies that reinforce the traditional concept of family through everyday communication. The second, queering dominant parenting practices, delineates the discursive and material realities of the parenting culture at the intersection of gender, sexuality, class and age. In all, participants’ voices in this study offer a sense of queer intervention in destabilizing taken-for-granted assumptions on how to do family, and further explore (re)constructions and (re)imaginings of what a socially just family could be.
{"title":"“We are the Unusual Factor”: Queering Family Communication Norms with Gay Adoptive Parents","authors":"Dacheng Zhang, Yea-Wen Chen","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2020.1767621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1767621","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Same-sex parenting in the United States (U.S.) is a rich site for scholars across disciplines to deepen more nuanced and complex understandings of diverse family dynamics. Despite the existence of this growing population that diversifies U.S. family values, communication scholars have long neglected same-sex households in their research agenda. In this qualitative study, we deploy queer theory to expose and call into question the cultural binary between homosexuality and heterosexuality in determining what is viewed as a good and/or culturally acceptable family, through the voices of gay adoptive parents. These voices aim to present how same-sex parents challenge and interrogate normative family discourses and parenting practices. The findings of twenty in-depth interviews identified two interrelated themes. The first theme, queering heteronormative family imagery, unpacks how participants problematize certain heteronormative ideologies that reinforce the traditional concept of family through everyday communication. The second, queering dominant parenting practices, delineates the discursive and material realities of the parenting culture at the intersection of gender, sexuality, class and age. In all, participants’ voices in this study offer a sense of queer intervention in destabilizing taken-for-granted assumptions on how to do family, and further explore (re)constructions and (re)imaginings of what a socially just family could be.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"20 1","pages":"206 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2020.1767621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47363360","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 : 2020-05-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1761807
Melissa Rizzo Weller, Angela M. Hosek
ABSTRACT Adoption information, including original birth certificates (OBCs) and (non)identifying information, is kept secret from birth mothers who place their children in closed adoptions. Through the lens of communication privacy management theory (CPM), the present student explores how birth mothers who participated in closed adoptions experienced turbulence related to wanting to still be included in the privacy boundary of their children in a range of ways that were inconsistent with the legal parameters of a closed adoption. Participants (n = 31) responded to an online questionnaire asking about privacy issues and expectations related to their adoption information, specifically their experiences of turbulence. Emergent themes included inaccurate notions about perceived shared co-ownership rights, regret about the limited primary control of adoption information, and a desire for turbulence, allowing further expansion of co-ownership and control. Results of this study show how birth mothers who have engaged in closed adoptions may come to regret signing over control of their children (and consequently all privacy management decisions) to adoption agencies. These women appreciate the cultural and legal shifts that have created turbulence, opening up adoption records in some states, enabling them to potentially co-own more information about their children. Implications of these findings demonstrate birth mothers’ privacy rules evolve over time.
{"title":"Birth Mothers’ Experiences of Privacy Turbulence in Relation to Closed Adoption Information","authors":"Melissa Rizzo Weller, Angela M. Hosek","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2020.1761807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1761807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adoption information, including original birth certificates (OBCs) and (non)identifying information, is kept secret from birth mothers who place their children in closed adoptions. Through the lens of communication privacy management theory (CPM), the present student explores how birth mothers who participated in closed adoptions experienced turbulence related to wanting to still be included in the privacy boundary of their children in a range of ways that were inconsistent with the legal parameters of a closed adoption. Participants (n = 31) responded to an online questionnaire asking about privacy issues and expectations related to their adoption information, specifically their experiences of turbulence. Emergent themes included inaccurate notions about perceived shared co-ownership rights, regret about the limited primary control of adoption information, and a desire for turbulence, allowing further expansion of co-ownership and control. Results of this study show how birth mothers who have engaged in closed adoptions may come to regret signing over control of their children (and consequently all privacy management decisions) to adoption agencies. These women appreciate the cultural and legal shifts that have created turbulence, opening up adoption records in some states, enabling them to potentially co-own more information about their children. Implications of these findings demonstrate birth mothers’ privacy rules evolve over time.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"20 1","pages":"250 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2020.1761807","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43499403","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 : 2020-04-26DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1754826
Bruce M. Smyth, Giverney Ainscough, J. Payne
ABSTRACT Much of the work on media multiplexity theory (MMT) is based on unestablished relationships, in which more channels are presumed to be indicative of higher relational closeness. But a different set of relational dynamics may be at play in preexisting acrimonious partnerships. In this article, we investigate the use of different modes of communication by high-conflict separated parents (media multiplexity), and map changes in modes of communication (modality switching). Qualitative data from 68 separated parents in Australia who reported chronic parental acrimony suggest that a considerable amount of modality switching occurred post-separation. Consistent with MMT, multiplexity was evident but the degree of multiplexity was not as clearly related with the degree of closeness in the co-parental relationship as would be otherwise predicted by MMT. Recent insights into more pernicious forms of family dynamics set an important challenge for communication theories to better account for ex-couple motivational complexities.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-19DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2020.1753745
Lauren M. Amaro
ABSTRACT This qualitative analysis focuses on the emotional experience and coping strategies of mothers of children with moderate and severe eczema. Interviews with 22 mothers addressed the following questions: What emotions characterize the mother-child relationship in the eczema context? What, if any, behaviors do mothers identify as communicating children’s emotions about the eczema experience? What specific coping behaviors and types do mothers use with their child in the eczema context? Findings reveal that mothers most commonly report experiencing anxiety, despair, shame, and compassion, while their children demonstrate externalizing and internalizing behaviors consistent with anger, anxiety, and depression. Coping behaviors include normalization, differentiation, and control, which reflect coping types described in the communal coping model. Theoretical implications address connections between emotion, coping, and resilience. Practical implications highlight areas of attention for mothers and professionals.
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