Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2135386
Ioana A. Cionea, Britney N. Gilmore, Anthony T. Machette, P. Kavya
This study (N = 788) investigated experimentally how students respond to critical instructor feedback by manipulating teaching assistant (TA) cultural background and experience, and feedback wording and detail. Open-ended responses were also elicited to learn about students’ reactions to such feedback. Results indicated that instructor competence and trustworthiness differed based on TA background, experience, and feedback wording. Instructor goodwill differed based on feedback wording and detail. Finally, feedback wording lowered students’ self-efficacy and increased students’ negative affect when worded negatively vs. affirmatively. Open-ended data revealed students respond to critical feedback by implementing it, seeking further clarification but also reacting affectively, or figuring out alternatives.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2136978
Kelly Adams
As individuals are continually exposed to media involving celebrity couples, how do these couples influence romantic relationship processes? The current study explores perceptions of celebrity couple engagement in relationship conflict and how this might predict the conflict tactics used in adult romantic relationships. Specifically, how celebrity couples’ conflict might predict individuals’ engagement in specific conflict tactics was examined. An exploratory survey was implemented and included several measures of relationship conflict, social comparison, conflict tactics, and several other variables. Results indicated associations between perceptions of celebrity couples’ relational conflict and participants’ reported engagement in certain conflict tactics with their current romantic partner. Social comparison moderated the relationship between perceptions of celebrity couples’ relational conflict and participants’ engagement in conflict. Discussion and future directions are further elaborated.
{"title":"“Do You Go through Tough Times? Of Course. That’s Part of Relationships.” Associations Between Perceptions of Celebrity Couples’ Conflict and Conflict Tactics of Ordinary Couples","authors":"Kelly Adams","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2136978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2136978","url":null,"abstract":"As individuals are continually exposed to media involving celebrity couples, how do these couples influence romantic relationship processes? The current study explores perceptions of celebrity couple engagement in relationship conflict and how this might predict the conflict tactics used in adult romantic relationships. Specifically, how celebrity couples’ conflict might predict individuals’ engagement in specific conflict tactics was examined. An exploratory survey was implemented and included several measures of relationship conflict, social comparison, conflict tactics, and several other variables. Results indicated associations between perceptions of celebrity couples’ relational conflict and participants’ reported engagement in certain conflict tactics with their current romantic partner. Social comparison moderated the relationship between perceptions of celebrity couples’ relational conflict and participants’ engagement in conflict. Discussion and future directions are further elaborated.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46853134","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 : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2131464
Zac D. Johnson, Sara LaBelle
The current study explored the relationships between teacher and student-to-student confirmation, academic self-efficacy, and college students’ intention to persist with their education. A cross-sectional mediation analysis of 412 students indicates that confirmation from both teachers and students has a direct relationship to students’ intention to persist. Further, confirmation indirectly relates to intention to persist through academic self-efficacy. The strongest effects were observed for teacher confirmation, though student confirmation still yielded meaningful associations. Overall, the findings indicate that classroom-based interactions, while often overlooked as a potential intervention for persistence and retention, can have a meaningful relationship to students’ intention to persist.
{"title":"College Students’ Intent to Persist with Their Education: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Classroom Confirmation and Academic Self-Efficacy","authors":"Zac D. Johnson, Sara LaBelle","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2131464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2131464","url":null,"abstract":"The current study explored the relationships between teacher and student-to-student confirmation, academic self-efficacy, and college students’ intention to persist with their education. A cross-sectional mediation analysis of 412 students indicates that confirmation from both teachers and students has a direct relationship to students’ intention to persist. Further, confirmation indirectly relates to intention to persist through academic self-efficacy. The strongest effects were observed for teacher confirmation, though student confirmation still yielded meaningful associations. Overall, the findings indicate that classroom-based interactions, while often overlooked as a potential intervention for persistence and retention, can have a meaningful relationship to students’ intention to persist.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43052268","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 : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2141072
Maria K. Venetis, Ashleigh N. Shields, Meghana Rawat, Jyoti Seth
Young women in India report that avoidant talk within families hinders their ability to communicate about menstruation, further promoting stigma and limiting knowledge. Participants included 287 college-attending women from one of two colleges in different locations in northern India. Participants completed surveys that were guided by the disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) and asked about menstruation-related topic avoidance with mothers. Results find that the stigma of being dramatic is a consistent predictor across the two locations but that predictors otherwise differ. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
{"title":"Predicting Menstruation-Related Topic Avoidance between Daughters and Mothers in Two Regions of Northern India","authors":"Maria K. Venetis, Ashleigh N. Shields, Meghana Rawat, Jyoti Seth","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2141072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2141072","url":null,"abstract":"Young women in India report that avoidant talk within families hinders their ability to communicate about menstruation, further promoting stigma and limiting knowledge. Participants included 287 college-attending women from one of two colleges in different locations in northern India. Participants completed surveys that were guided by the disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) and asked about menstruation-related topic avoidance with mothers. Results find that the stigma of being dramatic is a consistent predictor across the two locations but that predictors otherwise differ. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48106799","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 : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2138527
Brooke Covington
{"title":"Unpacking the Vernacular Camouflage of Virginia Tech’s April 16th Memorial","authors":"Brooke Covington","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2138527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2138527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45071200","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 : 2022-11-05DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2141071
Anjana Mudambi, M. Collier, C. Muneri, L. Scott, Erin Watley, José Castro-Sotomayor
Critical reflexivity, situated in a critical communication pedagogy framework, enables students and instructors to critique their identity positions alongside broader contextual structures enmeshed within the dynamics of intercultural conflict. This study therefore examines undergraduate students’ discourses of critical reflexivity following a retreat workshop experience in an intercultural conflict course. After collecting data through reflection papers, we found uneven understandings and applications of critical reflexivity that reflect the potential of critical reflexivity in helping students to question various assumptions about themselves and others but also the challenges of disrupting dominant ideologies such as individualism to increase understanding of structural factors.
{"title":"Toward Critical Reflexivity through Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy: Student Discourse in an Intercultural Conflict Course","authors":"Anjana Mudambi, M. Collier, C. Muneri, L. Scott, Erin Watley, José Castro-Sotomayor","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2141071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2141071","url":null,"abstract":"Critical reflexivity, situated in a critical communication pedagogy framework, enables students and instructors to critique their identity positions alongside broader contextual structures enmeshed within the dynamics of intercultural conflict. This study therefore examines undergraduate students’ discourses of critical reflexivity following a retreat workshop experience in an intercultural conflict course. After collecting data through reflection papers, we found uneven understandings and applications of critical reflexivity that reflect the potential of critical reflexivity in helping students to question various assumptions about themselves and others but also the challenges of disrupting dominant ideologies such as individualism to increase understanding of structural factors.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41336744","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 : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2139153
K. Rush, Lacy G. McNamee, Johny T. Garner
{"title":"More than Emotional Coping: Cultivating Resilience in Human Services Volunteering","authors":"K. Rush, Lacy G. McNamee, Johny T. Garner","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2139153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2139153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48157107","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 : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2136977
Xi Li
The Chinese Dream is the most important national narrative in Chinese political discourse. Existing studies have mainly focused on its political implications or diplomatic influences. However, limited study has been done to examine the narrative structure and mythic natures of the Chinese Dream. This study provides a cross-cultural analysis of the Chinese Dream narrative, revealing the significant role of the collective hero and the dynamics of a dual protagonist that are deep-rooted in the Chinese cultural and historical context. The analysis of the Chinese Dream has important implications for understanding the significance of cultural dimensions in narrative criticism.
{"title":"The Chinese Dream as Cultural Myth: A Narrative Analysis of President Xi Jinping's Speech","authors":"Xi Li","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2136977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2136977","url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese Dream is the most important national narrative in Chinese political discourse. Existing studies have mainly focused on its political implications or diplomatic influences. However, limited study has been done to examine the narrative structure and mythic natures of the Chinese Dream. This study provides a cross-cultural analysis of the Chinese Dream narrative, revealing the significant role of the collective hero and the dynamics of a dual protagonist that are deep-rooted in the Chinese cultural and historical context. The analysis of the Chinese Dream has important implications for understanding the significance of cultural dimensions in narrative criticism.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49512238","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2135385
Kelly McAninch, Amy L. Delaney, Erin D. Basinger, Erin C. Wehrman
Validating communication is a relational variable tied to physical functioning and emotional well-being and helps couples navigate the stress of chronic illness. In this study, we evaluated relational uncertainty, illness severity, and depressive symptoms as correlates of validating communication, and then considered associations between validating communication and both resilience and relational load. A cross-sectional study of romantic dyads coping with one or more chronic illnesses revealed support for hypothesized associations, illustrating associations among relational perceptions, illness characteristics, mental health, communication, and global relationship qualities.
{"title":"Validating Communication in Couples’ Experience of Chronic Illness: Associations with Relational and Health Circumstances and Overarching Relational Perceptions","authors":"Kelly McAninch, Amy L. Delaney, Erin D. Basinger, Erin C. Wehrman","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2135385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2135385","url":null,"abstract":"Validating communication is a relational variable tied to physical functioning and emotional well-being and helps couples navigate the stress of chronic illness. In this study, we evaluated relational uncertainty, illness severity, and depressive symptoms as correlates of validating communication, and then considered associations between validating communication and both resilience and relational load. A cross-sectional study of romantic dyads coping with one or more chronic illnesses revealed support for hypothesized associations, illustrating associations among relational perceptions, illness characteristics, mental health, communication, and global relationship qualities.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41631254","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 : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2131463
Mollie K. Murphy
Scientific research that illustrates links between toxins and cancer are largely absent in public discourse; yet correcting this deficiency is an insufficient solution to promoting precautionary policy. By design, the scientific method avoids questions of ethics. This article examines how biologist Sandra Steingraber navigates elevating the importance of scientific research on cancer while showcasing such research as an insufficient basis for change. I argue that her use of perspective by incongruity in her acclaimed memoir, Living Downstream, enables her to accomplish this task. This article forwards perspective by incongruity as a means to usefully complicate public understandings of scientific research.
{"title":"Reconsidering the Role of Scientific Research in Anti-Toxics Rhetoric through Perspective by Incongruity","authors":"Mollie K. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2131463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2131463","url":null,"abstract":"Scientific research that illustrates links between toxins and cancer are largely absent in public discourse; yet correcting this deficiency is an insufficient solution to promoting precautionary policy. By design, the scientific method avoids questions of ethics. This article examines how biologist Sandra Steingraber navigates elevating the importance of scientific research on cancer while showcasing such research as an insufficient basis for change. I argue that her use of perspective by incongruity in her acclaimed memoir, Living Downstream, enables her to accomplish this task. This article forwards perspective by incongruity as a means to usefully complicate public understandings of scientific research.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46292101","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}
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