Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1996365
Quinten S. Bernhold, H. Giles
ABSTRACT The role of individual differences in shaping family members’ experiences has only been sporadically examined in research on communication accommodation theory. This dyadic study (N = 126 middle-aged parents and 126 young adult children) investigated the relationship between parents’ and children’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and self-reported loneliness, and the roles of accommodation and nonaccommodation within that. Among other findings, parents’ attachment anxiety and avoidance positively predicted parents’ perceptions of receiving overaccommodation and underaccommodation, as well as children’s perceptions of receiving underaccommodation. Both parties’ perceptions of receiving underaccommodation positively predicted children’s loneliness. Post-hoc indirect associations suggested that children’s attachment anxiety and avoidance indirectly predicted both parties’ perceptions of receiving underaccommodation, via children’s loneliness. Findings are discussed in terms of the implications of attachment and loneliness for communication accommodation theory.
{"title":"Attachment Theory as a Lens to Explain Accommodation, Nonaccommodation, and Loneliness in Relationships between Middle-Aged Parents and Young Adult Children","authors":"Quinten S. Bernhold, H. Giles","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.1996365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.1996365","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The role of individual differences in shaping family members’ experiences has only been sporadically examined in research on communication accommodation theory. This dyadic study (N = 126 middle-aged parents and 126 young adult children) investigated the relationship between parents’ and children’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and self-reported loneliness, and the roles of accommodation and nonaccommodation within that. Among other findings, parents’ attachment anxiety and avoidance positively predicted parents’ perceptions of receiving overaccommodation and underaccommodation, as well as children’s perceptions of receiving underaccommodation. Both parties’ perceptions of receiving underaccommodation positively predicted children’s loneliness. Post-hoc indirect associations suggested that children’s attachment anxiety and avoidance indirectly predicted both parties’ perceptions of receiving underaccommodation, via children’s loneliness. Findings are discussed in terms of the implications of attachment and loneliness for communication accommodation theory.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42351868","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 : 2021-10-29DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1998065
Jenna R. LaFreniere, Chaitra Kulkarni
ABSTRACT This study investigated the potential for young adults’ relational (dis)satisfaction with parents to function as a mediator in the association between their demand/withdraw patterns and emotional labor with parents. Based on a survey of 259 young adults, results indicated that young adults’ relational (dis)satisfaction functions as an explanatory mechanism, where demand/withdraw conflict with parents decreases their relational satisfaction, in turn increasing young adults’ emotional labor with parents. This finding may help family scholars better understand outcomes of parent-child conflict for older children, highlighting impacts on their emotional well-being and communication. In order to promote healthy family functioning and strong relationships, understanding fallout from parent-young adult conflict as well as factors that influence how young adults communicate their emotions with parents is pertinent.
{"title":"Relational Satisfaction as a Mediator of Parent-Young Adult Conflict and Young Adults’ Emotional Labor","authors":"Jenna R. LaFreniere, Chaitra Kulkarni","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.1998065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.1998065","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigated the potential for young adults’ relational (dis)satisfaction with parents to function as a mediator in the association between their demand/withdraw patterns and emotional labor with parents. Based on a survey of 259 young adults, results indicated that young adults’ relational (dis)satisfaction functions as an explanatory mechanism, where demand/withdraw conflict with parents decreases their relational satisfaction, in turn increasing young adults’ emotional labor with parents. This finding may help family scholars better understand outcomes of parent-child conflict for older children, highlighting impacts on their emotional well-being and communication. In order to promote healthy family functioning and strong relationships, understanding fallout from parent-young adult conflict as well as factors that influence how young adults communicate their emotions with parents is pertinent.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"71 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47177561","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 : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1979555
M. Lwin, Chitra Panchapakesan, Jaishree Teresa, Y. M. Cayabyab, W. Shin
ABSTRACT This study examines how parents and their children differ in their perceptions of parental mediation strategies implemented to supervise and monitor children’s digital media use. Focusing on the Asian context, we explore reasons for parents to set rules as well as parental roles and strictness in relation to children’s digital media use. In-depth qualitative interviews with parents and their children (n = 41 from 20 families) showed that children and parents had divergent opinions on the parental mediation strategies deployed. While some parents felt that they communicated with their children about digital media and were actively involved in mediating their children’s digital media use, children generally perceived these conversations as instructional, one-way communication. Children and parents in the sample stated that prioritizing scholastic pursuit was a major reason for parents’ restricting and reducing of children’s digital media use. Children also perceived differences between fathers and mothers in their strictness and mediating roles when regulating digital media use. Insights gained from the research will help policymakers develop educational platforms for parents to incorporate more effective communication-based mediation strategies. The findings will also encourage parents to consider children’s reactions and perceptions when employing parental mediation, while reevaluating the over-reliance on restrictive strategies.
{"title":"Are Parents Doing It Right? Parent and Child Perspectives on Parental Mediation in Singapore","authors":"M. Lwin, Chitra Panchapakesan, Jaishree Teresa, Y. M. Cayabyab, W. Shin","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.1979555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.1979555","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines how parents and their children differ in their perceptions of parental mediation strategies implemented to supervise and monitor children’s digital media use. Focusing on the Asian context, we explore reasons for parents to set rules as well as parental roles and strictness in relation to children’s digital media use. In-depth qualitative interviews with parents and their children (n = 41 from 20 families) showed that children and parents had divergent opinions on the parental mediation strategies deployed. While some parents felt that they communicated with their children about digital media and were actively involved in mediating their children’s digital media use, children generally perceived these conversations as instructional, one-way communication. Children and parents in the sample stated that prioritizing scholastic pursuit was a major reason for parents’ restricting and reducing of children’s digital media use. Children also perceived differences between fathers and mothers in their strictness and mediating roles when regulating digital media use. Insights gained from the research will help policymakers develop educational platforms for parents to incorporate more effective communication-based mediation strategies. The findings will also encourage parents to consider children’s reactions and perceptions when employing parental mediation, while reevaluating the over-reliance on restrictive strategies.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"21 1","pages":"306 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48204402","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 : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1943399
Kendyl A. Barney, Christina G. Yoshimura
ABSTRACT Communicated Narrative Sense-Making Theory was applied to 14 semi-structured interviews to explore stories of sorting through a deceased family member’s belongings/changing the home after death (“cleaning out the closet”). Family stories about “cleaning out the closet” yielded retrospective storytelling content themes regarding why changes were made/not made, how family members communicated when deciding to make any changes, and what changed or didn’t change as a result of “cleaning out the closet.” These results advance the claim that “cleaning out the closet” functions as a unique site where the instrumental task meets narrative communication openings for families, and that this task offers key opportunities for sense-making, socialization, and well-being during the turbulent period of bereavement.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1953501
Nelly Elias, Dafna Lemish, Galit Rovner-Lev
ABSTRACT It has become increasingly common for parents and children to engage in individual digital activities which disconnect them from each other while remaining in each other’s presence. Accordingly, this paper examines how parent-child face-to-face communication is associated with mobile phone use during a family meal in eateries. The study included unobtrusive observations of 58 families with children approximately three to six years of age in various eateries. We identified four parent-child face-to-face interaction patterns that occurred when a parent and/or a child used a mobile phone: (1) Communication discouragement during parents’ phone use; (2) Communication discouragement during children’s phone use; (3) Communication facilitation via family photos; and (4) Communication facilitation via a shared phone use. Mobile phone use during family mealtimes in public is thus another example of both the positive and the negative outcomes of media use in family communication.
{"title":"Food for Thought: Parent-Child Face-to-Face Communication and Mobile Phone Use in Eateries","authors":"Nelly Elias, Dafna Lemish, Galit Rovner-Lev","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.1953501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.1953501","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It has become increasingly common for parents and children to engage in individual digital activities which disconnect them from each other while remaining in each other’s presence. Accordingly, this paper examines how parent-child face-to-face communication is associated with mobile phone use during a family meal in eateries. The study included unobtrusive observations of 58 families with children approximately three to six years of age in various eateries. We identified four parent-child face-to-face interaction patterns that occurred when a parent and/or a child used a mobile phone: (1) Communication discouragement during parents’ phone use; (2) Communication discouragement during children’s phone use; (3) Communication facilitation via family photos; and (4) Communication facilitation via a shared phone use. Mobile phone use during family mealtimes in public is thus another example of both the positive and the negative outcomes of media use in family communication.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"21 1","pages":"272 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2021.1953501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48187797","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 : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1976183
P. Gettings, Jenna McNallie
ABSTRACT Framed using Family Communication Patterns Theory, this study examined today’s grandparent experience by drawing connections among grandparental role expectations, family communication patterns, and relationship satisfaction with one’s grandchild and adult child. Grandparent role expectations operate as relational schemas that include general expectations about what individuals should do as grandparents and might color the choices an individual makes in communicating with family members. Based on survey responses from 380 grandparents in the United States, the results support both direct and indirect connections among role expectations for grandparents as friends, more open/less-controlling interactions, and more satisfying family relationships. Expectations for grandparents as guardians were positively associated with two components of conformity orientation. The findings offer theoretical and practical implications such as demonstrating that family communication patterns may serve as a mediating mechanism in some circumstances and the powerful influence that conversation orientation has in developing high-quality grandparent–grandchild relationships.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1954649
Darvelle Hutchins, L. Nelson
ABSTRACT Despite decades of research and multiple calls to diversify family communication scholarship, scant attention has been devoted to exploring communication in Black families. Recent events of civil unrest and racial injustice signify a continued need to address systemic racism in U.S. Black Americans’ lives today, threatening their physical, mental, social, and economic well-being. We contend that family communication scholars can play an essential role in dismantling racism and interlocking systems of oppression by drawing upon interdisciplinary theorizing to center and give voice to Black families’ communicative realities. Further, we urge communication scholars to explore issues within Black families and the communicative organizing of Black families.
{"title":"Setting the Agenda: Black Families Matter","authors":"Darvelle Hutchins, L. Nelson","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.1954649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.1954649","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite decades of research and multiple calls to diversify family communication scholarship, scant attention has been devoted to exploring communication in Black families. Recent events of civil unrest and racial injustice signify a continued need to address systemic racism in U.S. Black Americans’ lives today, threatening their physical, mental, social, and economic well-being. We contend that family communication scholars can play an essential role in dismantling racism and interlocking systems of oppression by drawing upon interdisciplinary theorizing to center and give voice to Black families’ communicative realities. Further, we urge communication scholars to explore issues within Black families and the communicative organizing of Black families.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"21 1","pages":"322 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15267431.2021.1954649","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45541302","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 : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1929994
A. Popyk, Paula Pustułka
ABSTRACT Transnational intergenerational communication between migrant children and their grandparents depends on family relationships and the specific migration context, but also shifts in response to emerging factors, such as the current COVID-19 crisis. The goal of this study is to offer an agile typology of communication between migrant children in Poland and their grandparents in other countries. It points to two types of family communication practices, namely direct (face-to-face) and technology-mediated communication (TMC). Drawing on data from a qualitative study of immigrant children (n = 19) and parents (n = 18) conducted during the lockdown and associated travel restrictions caused by the pandemic, the study offers a typology of emotional, symbolic, mediated, and discontinuous modes of intergenerational family communications. It also indicates that cessation of direct contact during an “immobility regime” reduces the scope of intergenerational communication in transnational families.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1927040
Hannah E. Jones, Deborah B. Yoon, Jennifer A. Theiss, Jorlanditha T. Austin, Lauren E. Lee
ABSTRACT As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, romantic partners and families were forced to develop new routines under increasingly stressful circumstances. These conditions had the potential to introduce challenges in romantic relationships, exacerbate existing tensions, and called for the implementation of effective coping strategies. In this study, 151 dyads (302 individuals) from across the United States wrote narrative responses to open-ended questions about the effects of COVID-19 on their relationship and the coping behaviors they employed during the early months of the pandemic. Responses were subjected to thematic analysis to identify categories for each question. Four themes emerged reflecting effects on relationships and eight categories emerged describing the coping strategies used by participants. The results are discussed in terms of their alignment with the logic of relational turbulence theory and perspectives on communal coping, as well as the practical implications for helping couples manage stress during times of crisis.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1932503
Emily J. Charvat, H. Horstman, E. Jordan, Alaina Leverenz, Blessing Okafor
ABSTRACT Grounded in communicated narrative sense-making theory (CNSM), this study explored how women who were pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 21) communicatively made sense of their experience in light of their received social support. Interview data were inductively analyzed for emergent themes and deductively analyzed for type of social support and narrative tone. Findings uncovered themes of a) connecting to mitigate stress, b) drawing on others’ knowledge, c) receiving socially distant instrumental support, and d) lacking medical professional support. Further, instances of informational, instrumental, and/or emotional support frequently occurred in stories with a positive narrative tone, whereas instances of insufficient support frequently appeared in stories with a negative tone. These results support previous research on the benefits and barriers of social support during pregnancy and extend theorizing about the implications of interpersonal interactions on CNSM. Practical applications are explored for medical professionals endeavoring to support pregnant women during a pandemic.
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