Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2186882
Sydney O’Shay, E. Pasman, Danielle L Hicks, Suzanne Brown, Elizabeth Aguis, Stella M. Resko
ABSTRACT Opioid misuse is a prevalent health problem in the United States with consequences extending past the person who misuses opioids to affected family members (AFM) through courtesy stigma. The goals of this study were to understand the stigma management communication (SMC) strategies employed by AFMs when they experience courtesy stigma and changes in strategies used over time. The findings from interviews with 34 AFMs suggest the SMC strategies they employ range from those that indicate acceptance of stigma and avoidance of stigma situations to strategies where AFMs actively challenge opioid misuse stigma. However, strategy use depended on the social context and AFMs’ perceptions of opioid misuse stigma at a given moment in time. Further, findings suggest changes in AFMs’ SMC strategies over time are related to changes in their perceptions of opioid misuse stigma. Theoretical and practical implications of how families manage stigma are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2165080
Angela M. Hosek, Meredith Marko Harrigan
ABSTRACT This study investigated the process of attribution making regarding family labor in the context of dual earning families with children. Data consisted of 257 attribution statements from 34 working self-identified mothers of children under 18 that were made about experiences with family labor. Findings indicated that participants attribute their experiences to a variety of external, relational, and internal factors including paid work flexibility, gender, amount of labor, responsiveness, task ownership, qualities, roles, and preferences. Further analysis of the internal locus revealed 18 ways participants frame their own and their partners’ qualities and roles. Findings suggest that intrapersonal role conflict, paid work flexibility, health and wellness, and negative partner framing may offer important new insight related to relational equity within the context of family labor.
{"title":"Attributions and Framing in Working Mothers’ Reports About Division of Family Labor","authors":"Angela M. Hosek, Meredith Marko Harrigan","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2165080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2165080","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigated the process of attribution making regarding family labor in the context of dual earning families with children. Data consisted of 257 attribution statements from 34 working self-identified mothers of children under 18 that were made about experiences with family labor. Findings indicated that participants attribute their experiences to a variety of external, relational, and internal factors including paid work flexibility, gender, amount of labor, responsiveness, task ownership, qualities, roles, and preferences. Further analysis of the internal locus revealed 18 ways participants frame their own and their partners’ qualities and roles. Findings suggest that intrapersonal role conflict, paid work flexibility, health and wellness, and negative partner framing may offer important new insight related to relational equity within the context of family labor.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"23 1","pages":"63 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42270903","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2172021
J. Boumis, K. Kuang, Steven R. Wilson, E. Hintz, Patrice M. Buzzanell
ABSTRACT The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010, 2019) proposes that resilience is cultivated via interactions and enacted through five processes. When individuals encounter times of disruption, they draw from anticipatory resilience – discursive and material resources cultivated over time – to enact resilience processes. Hopeful memorable messages (MMs) that offer a sense of positivity and efficacy about getting through future hardships can constitute one form of communication that builds anticipatory resilience. These recalled MMs can be influenced by one’s familial environment growing up. This study tested associations between family communication patterns (FCP), the positivity/efficacy of MMs about getting through hard times, and CTR resilience processes. Findings suggest conversation and conformity orientations were positively associated with memorable message (MM) positivity/efficacy, which predicted enactment of resilience processes during a recent disruption. Furthermore, MM positivity/efficacy mediated the relationships between FCP and resilience processes. Theoretical implications for CTR are discussed.
{"title":"Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes","authors":"J. Boumis, K. Kuang, Steven R. Wilson, E. Hintz, Patrice M. Buzzanell","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2172021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2172021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010, 2019) proposes that resilience is cultivated via interactions and enacted through five processes. When individuals encounter times of disruption, they draw from anticipatory resilience – discursive and material resources cultivated over time – to enact resilience processes. Hopeful memorable messages (MMs) that offer a sense of positivity and efficacy about getting through future hardships can constitute one form of communication that builds anticipatory resilience. These recalled MMs can be influenced by one’s familial environment growing up. This study tested associations between family communication patterns (FCP), the positivity/efficacy of MMs about getting through hard times, and CTR resilience processes. Findings suggest conversation and conformity orientations were positively associated with memorable message (MM) positivity/efficacy, which predicted enactment of resilience processes during a recent disruption. Furthermore, MM positivity/efficacy mediated the relationships between FCP and resilience processes. Theoretical implications for CTR are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"23 1","pages":"22 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44188663","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2181350
Sandra L. Faulkner
ABSTRACT I use the erasure poems in the poetry chapbook, “Bringing Up Baby,” as Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) research to critique white middle-class notions of mothering and motherhood. Poetic inquiry is a form of Arts-Based Research (ABR) methodology that offers Critical Family Communication (CFC) researchers a way to highlight the aesthetics of personal experience, focus on embodiment and participatory measures, and use artistic forms to meld scientific and humanistic understandings of relationships. I argue that poetic inquiry as CFC methodology adds to family communication studies and offers a research and practice agenda using poetic inquiry as (a) everyday theorizing, (b) critique of traditional understandings of family relating and relationships, and (c) an evocative, embodied form that positions author reflexivity and engages dialectics. I provide suggestions for incorporating poetic inquiry into CFC research.
{"title":"Setting the Agenda: Poetic Inquiry as Critical Family Communication Methodology","authors":"Sandra L. Faulkner","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2181350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2181350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT I use the erasure poems in the poetry chapbook, “Bringing Up Baby,” as Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) research to critique white middle-class notions of mothering and motherhood. Poetic inquiry is a form of Arts-Based Research (ABR) methodology that offers Critical Family Communication (CFC) researchers a way to highlight the aesthetics of personal experience, focus on embodiment and participatory measures, and use artistic forms to meld scientific and humanistic understandings of relationships. I argue that poetic inquiry as CFC methodology adds to family communication studies and offers a research and practice agenda using poetic inquiry as (a) everyday theorizing, (b) critique of traditional understandings of family relating and relationships, and (c) an evocative, embodied form that positions author reflexivity and engages dialectics. I provide suggestions for incorporating poetic inquiry into CFC research.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"23 1","pages":"75 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43264238","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 : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2149528
Alice Fanari, R. A. Cooper, Leah Dajches, G. Beck, M. Pitts
ABSTRACT This study uses the communication theory of resilience as a sensitizing framework to explore how U.S. military spouses transferred resilience practices acquired during military deployment to early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from 27 in-depth interviews with U.S. military spouses showed that the military experience shaped participants’ appraisal of the pandemic and helped them to discursively enact resilience through previously developed practices. Six major themes emerged: (a) crafting normalcy through the military lifestyle and experience; (b) affirming identity through military anchors; (c) invoking military mantras as alternative logics; (d) foregrounding productive action through flexibility and planning; (e) maintaining communication networks through (i) technology, (ii) family and community support, and (iii) intentional communication with partner; and (f) downplaying negative feelings by generating positive emotions. Findings contribute to the communication theory of resilience by showing how individuals with a history of resilience can transfer already-built resilience practices from one context (deployment) to another (COVID-19).
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Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2142229
Lisa J. van Raalte, Tricia J. Burke, Jocelyn M. DeGroot, Abigail J. Mellow
ABSTRACT This research explored changes in affection, with a particular focus on feeling touched out, for parents after the birth of their child. An online questionnaire asked parents (N = 39 U.S. adults) open-ended questions to investigate changes in affection after the birth of their child. Thematic analysis indicated that approximately a little over half of the sample reported reduced affection after the birth of their child, including feeling “touched out” (i.e., feeling physical saturation and needing bodily autonomy). The remaining participants in the sample did not feel touched out and noticed that their nature of shared affection changed but did not reduce in frequency. Transparency about affection needs and coparenting expectations pre- and post-birth is strongly recommended in parents’ family planning conversations.
{"title":"Examining Changes in Affection and “Feeling Touched Out” after the Birth of a Child","authors":"Lisa J. van Raalte, Tricia J. Burke, Jocelyn M. DeGroot, Abigail J. Mellow","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2142229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2142229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research explored changes in affection, with a particular focus on feeling touched out, for parents after the birth of their child. An online questionnaire asked parents (N = 39 U.S. adults) open-ended questions to investigate changes in affection after the birth of their child. Thematic analysis indicated that approximately a little over half of the sample reported reduced affection after the birth of their child, including feeling “touched out” (i.e., feeling physical saturation and needing bodily autonomy). The remaining participants in the sample did not feel touched out and noticed that their nature of shared affection changed but did not reduce in frequency. Transparency about affection needs and coparenting expectations pre- and post-birth is strongly recommended in parents’ family planning conversations.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"23 1","pages":"52 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43671605","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 : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2126476
Noa A. Hatzir, E. Segev
ABSTRACT Based on the Relational Dialectics Theory 2.0 and the concept of affordances, this study examined the competing discourses that animate the meaning of intergenerational communication among Israeli women. Three generations of women from nine families were interviewed about their perceptions and use of multiple channels–face-to-face communication, mobile phone calls, and WhatsApp chats–to communicate with each other. A contrapuntal analysis revealed two competing discourses: The central discourse of intergenerational communication as connectedness (DICC) and the marginal discourse of intergenerational communication as a disruptor (DICD). The subthemes exhibited in the DICC were the need for closeness, the expectation of openness, and the means for resolving any conflictual issues. The DICD revealed the disappointments associated with intergenerational communication and different expectations regarding the frequency of communication and how various communication channels are used.
{"title":"Intergenerational Communication: The Meaning of Communication Channels and Their Affordances","authors":"Noa A. Hatzir, E. Segev","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2126476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2126476","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on the Relational Dialectics Theory 2.0 and the concept of affordances, this study examined the competing discourses that animate the meaning of intergenerational communication among Israeli women. Three generations of women from nine families were interviewed about their perceptions and use of multiple channels–face-to-face communication, mobile phone calls, and WhatsApp chats–to communicate with each other. A contrapuntal analysis revealed two competing discourses: The central discourse of intergenerational communication as connectedness (DICC) and the marginal discourse of intergenerational communication as a disruptor (DICD). The subthemes exhibited in the DICC were the need for closeness, the expectation of openness, and the means for resolving any conflictual issues. The DICD revealed the disappointments associated with intergenerational communication and different expectations regarding the frequency of communication and how various communication channels are used.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"23 1","pages":"41 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48864708","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: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2120881
Christine E. Kunkle, R. Purtell, Erin Shelton
ABSTRACT A new lens for exploring family socialization about racism and racial differences, the crux of the study is college students“ (N = 181) recalled moral memorable messages (MMM) from their White parents about racial outgroups. Among those who recalled a message, the most common theme was ‘Equal Treatment,’ and included subthemes consistent with both colorblind and multicultural ideologies. ‘Racism is Real and Wrong’ prescribed uncovering and working against one’s own and others” racist acts. Adult children’s message agreement and identification with the message’s sender were both significantly greater for these two themes than for the “Racial outgroups are unequal and unwelcome” theme, which included displays and prescriptions of racist behavior. Implications are discussed in relation to existent theorizing, and for use in future research on family communication about racial difference.
{"title":"Adult Children’s Recollections of Their White Parents’ Moral Memorable Messages about Racial Difference","authors":"Christine E. Kunkle, R. Purtell, Erin Shelton","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2120881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2120881","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A new lens for exploring family socialization about racism and racial differences, the crux of the study is college students“ (N = 181) recalled moral memorable messages (MMM) from their White parents about racial outgroups. Among those who recalled a message, the most common theme was ‘Equal Treatment,’ and included subthemes consistent with both colorblind and multicultural ideologies. ‘Racism is Real and Wrong’ prescribed uncovering and working against one’s own and others” racist acts. Adult children’s message agreement and identification with the message’s sender were both significantly greater for these two themes than for the “Racial outgroups are unequal and unwelcome” theme, which included displays and prescriptions of racist behavior. Implications are discussed in relation to existent theorizing, and for use in future research on family communication about racial difference.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"348 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45201077","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 : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2117181
Toni Morgan, Jody Koenig Kellas
ABSTRACT Significant religious difference in the family has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. While religious difference may be challenging for families to negotiate, the manner in which family members communicate about it seems to be helpful in promoting positive interactions between parents and children. The purpose of this study was to conceptualize a parental communicated (non)acceptance continuum in the context of significant parent-child religious difference. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 44 adults who identified a significant religious difference with their parent. The results suggested that communicated (non)acceptance occurred along a continuum with four ranges of behaviors: communicated nonacceptance, ambivalence, communicated acceptance, and idealized communicated acceptance. We discuss the characteristics of each part of the continuum and conclude by identifying key theoretical and translational implications.
{"title":"Communicating Across Eternal Divides: Conceptualizing Communicated Acceptance During Parent-Child Religious Difference","authors":"Toni Morgan, Jody Koenig Kellas","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2117181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2117181","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Significant religious difference in the family has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. While religious difference may be challenging for families to negotiate, the manner in which family members communicate about it seems to be helpful in promoting positive interactions between parents and children. The purpose of this study was to conceptualize a parental communicated (non)acceptance continuum in the context of significant parent-child religious difference. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 44 adults who identified a significant religious difference with their parent. The results suggested that communicated (non)acceptance occurred along a continuum with four ranges of behaviors: communicated nonacceptance, ambivalence, communicated acceptance, and idealized communicated acceptance. We discuss the characteristics of each part of the continuum and conclude by identifying key theoretical and translational implications.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"328 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44195070","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 : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2108429
E. A. Suter, Sara Docan-Morgan
ABSTRACT Family communication scholarship on transnational adoption has privileged adoptive family communication, in part, because only a fraction of transnational adoptees have been able to locate birth relatives. Given increased global access to DNA testing and more advanced technologies, reunions between transnational adoptees and birth families are increasing. Informed by our positionalities as an adoptive mother of a child born in China and a Korean adult adoptee in reunion with her birth family, we set an agenda for family communication research in the context of transnational adoption birth family search and reunion. We raise three questions for consideration in future family communication research on this topic: (a) Whose history is this?, (b) Whose search is this?, and (c) Whose culture is this? This agenda privileges theories and constructs promising for answering these questions, including communication privacy management theory, family communication patterns theory, adoptive identity, ambiguous loss, and culture and communication.
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