Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2228315
Charnell Peters
ABSTRACT This study expands our understanding of how commercialized genomics shape communication about Black individuals and Black families. Using critical race theory (CRT), I explicate how genetic ancestry tests (GATs) are rooted in whiteness and seek to overdetermine Blackness. Focus group interviews, individual interviews, and media analysis reveal the converging interests of the GAT industry and Black GAT customers. I argue that our contemporary landscape is marked by racial-genomic interest convergence, which characterizes the codependency of Black customers and the GAT industry in ways that (re)construct Black families. I conclude by discussing implications for the industry and Black families.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2220302
J. Crowley, Sarah Devereux, Quinten S. Bernhold
ABSTRACT This study applied the support gaps concept, or discrepancies between the amount of support desired and received, to the grandparent – grandchild relationship by examining grandchildren’s perceptions of support gaps from a grandparent and how gaps are associated with loneliness. Young adult grandchildren (N = 300) completed an online survey. Grandchildren experienced support surpluses from grandparents, such that they received more emotional, esteem, network, informational, and tangible support than desired. Deficits in tangible and network support were associated with greater loneliness. Implications for the support gaps framework and research on grandparent – grandchild relationships are discussed.
{"title":"Support Gaps in the Grandparent–Grandchild Relationship: Effects of Deficits and Surpluses on Grandchildren’s Loneliness","authors":"J. Crowley, Sarah Devereux, Quinten S. Bernhold","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2220302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2220302","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study applied the support gaps concept, or discrepancies between the amount of support desired and received, to the grandparent – grandchild relationship by examining grandchildren’s perceptions of support gaps from a grandparent and how gaps are associated with loneliness. Young adult grandchildren (N = 300) completed an online survey. Grandchildren experienced support surpluses from grandparents, such that they received more emotional, esteem, network, informational, and tangible support than desired. Deficits in tangible and network support were associated with greater loneliness. Implications for the support gaps framework and research on grandparent – grandchild relationships are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41895150","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 : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2215232
Elizabeth Dorrance-Hall, N. Campbell, M. Carlisle, Jacqueline Silverstone, Marissa Immel, Kelsey Earle
ABSTRACT Societal norms of commitment to family make gaining and maintaining family distance challenging. This study utilizes the investment model (Rusbult, 1980, 1983) to understand family commitment in the context of family member marginalization. A survey of 285 marginalized family members revealed family member marginalization is associated with lower family satisfaction and investment and higher availability of alternative kin relationships. The negative association between perceptions of family member marginalization and family commitment was mediated by family satisfaction and investment. Financial dependence on family, family-blame, self-blame, and intentionality of marginalization moderated the association between family member marginalization and (a) satisfaction and (b) investment. Implications for the investment model and practical implications for supporting marginalized members are discussed.
{"title":"Why Family Members St(r)ay: Marginalized Family Members’ Commitment to Family","authors":"Elizabeth Dorrance-Hall, N. Campbell, M. Carlisle, Jacqueline Silverstone, Marissa Immel, Kelsey Earle","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2215232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2215232","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Societal norms of commitment to family make gaining and maintaining family distance challenging. This study utilizes the investment model (Rusbult, 1980, 1983) to understand family commitment in the context of family member marginalization. A survey of 285 marginalized family members revealed family member marginalization is associated with lower family satisfaction and investment and higher availability of alternative kin relationships. The negative association between perceptions of family member marginalization and family commitment was mediated by family satisfaction and investment. Financial dependence on family, family-blame, self-blame, and intentionality of marginalization moderated the association between family member marginalization and (a) satisfaction and (b) investment. Implications for the investment model and practical implications for supporting marginalized members are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43613430","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 : 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2213216
Andrea Lambert South
ABSTRACT The legal community has long used family experts in preparation for court proceedings. Family law experts typically relied upon include psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and various family asset experts. However, the legal community is often unaware of family communication as a field and what we can add to the legal landscape to help families and resolve disputes. This article aims to (a) explain the role of expert witnesses in family law; (b) provide ideas for family law areas where communication scholars can be valuable; (c) provide an example illustrating how a family communication expert can help with pre-trial, trial, and post-decree procedures; (d) create a scaffolding for expert witness status; and (e) discuss limitations and constraints of the expert witness system, and suggest additional family law areas to be considered in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2213687
Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart, Samantha Rose, Jordan B. Conrad
ABSTRACT We call on family communication scholars to take a renewed interest in extended family relationships, including grandparents, in-laws, and aunts and uncles. Further, we encourage scholars to employ a racial-ethnic and global diversity perspective when studying extended kin to understand nuances and variations in these important family ties. We review current literature on these relationships and provide broad considerations and specific suggestions as a springboard for research on extended family relationships.
{"title":"Setting the Agenda: Focusing on Extended Family Relationships","authors":"Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart, Samantha Rose, Jordan B. Conrad","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2213687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2213687","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We call on family communication scholars to take a renewed interest in extended family relationships, including grandparents, in-laws, and aunts and uncles. Further, we encourage scholars to employ a racial-ethnic and global diversity perspective when studying extended kin to understand nuances and variations in these important family ties. We review current literature on these relationships and provide broad considerations and specific suggestions as a springboard for research on extended family relationships.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49173992","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 : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2204838
Meng Li
ABSTRACT Since the mid-2010s, the concept “family of origin” has achieved surprising popularity in China. Different from family of origin’s academic meaning and neutral connotation in English, its Chinese translation, yuansheng jiating (原生家庭), explicitly draws attention to how parents and family can do harm to children. Adopting a phronetic iterative approach, I analyzed 48 family of origin narrative videos and their comments on one of China’s largest video-sharing sites, Bilibili.com, using the Darkness Model of Family Communication as a heuristic tool. Results revealed an interlocking system of individual, dyadic, familial, and social levels of family darkness, collaboratively articulated by online narrators and commenters. I argue that the Chinese discourse of family of origin opens up a dialogic space where communication about family problems and critiques of patriarchal family culture can take place in the time of neo-familism in China.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2205842
Jenna McNallie, P. Gettings
ABSTRACT Grandparents increasingly use both technologically-mediated and in-person communication to nurture relationships with their grandchildren. Framed using the communication interdependence perspective (CIP), this study examined associations among family communication patterns (FCPs), integration of face-to-face and technologically-mediated communication, and relationship satisfaction to explore grandparent-grandchild relationships. Analysis of survey responses from 379 grandparents in the United States indicated that conversation orientation was positively associated with constructive integration, whereas both warm and cold conformity orientations were positively associated with destructive integration. Constructive integration was positively associated with relationship satisfaction and destructive integration was negatively associated with relationship satisfaction. Significant indirect effects between FCPs, integration, and relationship satisfaction also were identified.
{"title":"Exploring Family Communication Patterns and Interpersonal Technologies in United States-Based Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships","authors":"Jenna McNallie, P. Gettings","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2205842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2205842","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Grandparents increasingly use both technologically-mediated and in-person communication to nurture relationships with their grandchildren. Framed using the communication interdependence perspective (CIP), this study examined associations among family communication patterns (FCPs), integration of face-to-face and technologically-mediated communication, and relationship satisfaction to explore grandparent-grandchild relationships. Analysis of survey responses from 379 grandparents in the United States indicated that conversation orientation was positively associated with constructive integration, whereas both warm and cold conformity orientations were positively associated with destructive integration. Constructive integration was positively associated with relationship satisfaction and destructive integration was negatively associated with relationship satisfaction. Significant indirect effects between FCPs, integration, and relationship satisfaction also were identified.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"23 1","pages":"139 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43237657","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}
ABSTRACT Although much is known about the harmful consequences of racial microaggressions toward people of color, few studies have examined the factors associated with expressing racial microaggressions. This study investigated the relationship between White young adults’ perceptions of family communication environments and their self-reported microaggressive communication toward people of color. Participants (N = 242) reported on conversation and conformity orientations as well as their engagement in four different microaggressive behaviors (i.e. assumptions of inferiority, assumptions of criminality, exoticization, microinvalidations). Results revealed that White young adult children who reported higher levels of both conformity and conversation (i.e. consensual families) orientation reported higher levels of microaggressions whereas those who reported lower levels of conformity orientation and higher levels of conversation orientation (i.e. pluralistic families) reported the lowest levels. Practically, our results offer insight into the family dynamics and potentially promote and mitigate the perpetuation of microaggressions in White families.
{"title":"Family Communication Patterns and Expressing Racial Microaggressions Amongst White Adult Children","authors":"Timothy Curran, Analisa Arroyo, Jessica Fabbricatore","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2205844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2205844","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although much is known about the harmful consequences of racial microaggressions toward people of color, few studies have examined the factors associated with expressing racial microaggressions. This study investigated the relationship between White young adults’ perceptions of family communication environments and their self-reported microaggressive communication toward people of color. Participants (N = 242) reported on conversation and conformity orientations as well as their engagement in four different microaggressive behaviors (i.e. assumptions of inferiority, assumptions of criminality, exoticization, microinvalidations). Results revealed that White young adult children who reported higher levels of both conformity and conversation (i.e. consensual families) orientation reported higher levels of microaggressions whereas those who reported lower levels of conformity orientation and higher levels of conversation orientation (i.e. pluralistic families) reported the lowest levels. Practically, our results offer insight into the family dynamics and potentially promote and mitigate the perpetuation of microaggressions in White families.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"23 1","pages":"157 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48851539","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 : 2023-03-26DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2186883
Ashley Aragón, Angela Cooke-Jackson, Jennifer Oliva, Paulina Lainez, Marlene Huerta, Monica Roldán, V. Rubinsky
ABSTRACT The family is an important site of information, communication, and advocacy regarding sexual and reproductive health behaviors, particularly for individuals assigned female at birth (Byers, 2011). For Latina women, the health messages received from family members may be especially meaningful. This essay explores tri- and multi-generational family communication among Latina women, centering on the communication that transpires among different female generations regarding reproductive and sexual health topics. We call attention to the importance of further exploring if and how transparency, honesty, and non-judgment conversations can provide a culture of mutual respect and openness among women within the Latinx community as they attempt to negotiate their sexual behavior. We call on family communication scholars, especially those of Latinx descent, to consider how their work can contribute to setting an agenda for this important culture and topic, and we recommend specific research areas to investigate sexual and reproductive health communication in Latinx families.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2189254
Lauren E. Fellers, Christine E. Kunkle, Paul Schrodt, D. Follmer
ABSTRACT According to sanctification theory, parents and adult children who see their parent-adult child relationships as possessing sacred qualities will be more apt to behave in ways that protect it. Positioning relationship maintenance behaviors as an explanatory mechanism through which sanctification is associated with relational quality in parent-adult child (N = 205 dyads) relationships, an Actor – Partner Interdependence Model Extended to Mediation analysis was conducted. The results indicated that parents’ sanctification is indirectly associated with both parent and adult children’s reports of closeness via relationship maintenance behaviors. Likewise, adult children’s sanctification is indirectly associated with both parent and adult children’s reports of closeness via relationship maintenance behaviors. Theoretical and practical implications of relationship maintenance behaviors mediating the relationship between sanctification and closeness in parent-adult child relationships are discussed.
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