Pub Date : 2023-08-26DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2248459
James R. Angelini
ABSTRACT While major sporting mega-events have begun to feature equitable amounts of coverage, portrayals of male and female athletes can reinforce gender stereotypes about sports. It is important to examine viewer preferences for broadcasts featuring male and female athletes to determine if viewing choices reflect stereotypical sporting beliefs and behaviors. Drawing on gender schema theory and social dominance orientation, this study examines viewing behaviors during sports broadcasts that vary by the sex of the athlete and the perceived gender of the sport. Results show that viewers tend to spend more time watching sports broadcasts that reinforce rather that challenge existing stereotypes.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2236926
Lauren G. Millender, Ryan S. Bisel, Alaina C. Zanin
ABSTRACT This study used structurational divergence theory (SDT) to explain why employees’ concerns with powerholders can encourage them to select defensive silence in their approach to workplace problems. A survey of working adults (N = 276) revealed employees who had a concern with powerholders were more likely to select defensive silence as compared to employees who were concerned about other types of workplace concerns. Results indicated that perceptions of structurational divergence—and the loss of agency and immobilization that characterize it—are associated with employees’ selection of defensive silence instead of dissent. Implications for structurational divergence theory and organizational silence conclude the paper.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2235273
Ellen Alley, Mian Jia
ABSTRACT Drawing on Uncertainty Reduction Theory and Expectancy Violations Theory, this study examines the relationship between unwanted persistent pursuit (UPP) behaviors and ghosting behaviors. An online survey distributed via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk found that those who experienced UPP were more likely to have previously engaged in ghosting behaviors. Additionally, those who experienced being ghosted had a more positive attitude toward UPP than those who had not been ghosted, and the relationship was moderated by dating recency. Finally, the results indicated a positive correlation between views of persistent pursuit and likelihood of engaging in ghosting behaviors that is moderated by dating recency.
{"title":"Pursue the boo: The moderating role of dating recency between ghosting and unwanted persistent pursuit","authors":"Ellen Alley, Mian Jia","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2235273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2235273","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on Uncertainty Reduction Theory and Expectancy Violations Theory, this study examines the relationship between unwanted persistent pursuit (UPP) behaviors and ghosting behaviors. An online survey distributed via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk found that those who experienced UPP were more likely to have previously engaged in ghosting behaviors. Additionally, those who experienced being ghosted had a more positive attitude toward UPP than those who had not been ghosted, and the relationship was moderated by dating recency. Finally, the results indicated a positive correlation between views of persistent pursuit and likelihood of engaging in ghosting behaviors that is moderated by dating recency.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"206 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47337823","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 : 2023-07-08DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2232728
Michael Sollitto, Stephanie Kelly
ABSTRACT Uncertainty is a pervasive feature of organizational membership, exasperated by the presence of newcomers. Using uncertainty management theory (UMT), this study explored how veteran organizational members emotionally respond to the presence of new coworkers. Results revealed that veteran organizational members’ perceptions of new coworkers’ work, social, and relational performance associated with veteran members’ jealousy, envy, and job insecurity. This study progresses knowledge of how organizational members emotionally respond to uncertainty. Considering the “Great Resignation,” managers should clarify newcomers’ roles while veterans and newcomers should acquaint themselves with one another and find common ground for themselves and their organizations.
{"title":"“What about me?”: veteran organizational members’ negative emotional responses to newcomers","authors":"Michael Sollitto, Stephanie Kelly","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2232728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2232728","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Uncertainty is a pervasive feature of organizational membership, exasperated by the presence of newcomers. Using uncertainty management theory (UMT), this study explored how veteran organizational members emotionally respond to the presence of new coworkers. Results revealed that veteran organizational members’ perceptions of new coworkers’ work, social, and relational performance associated with veteran members’ jealousy, envy, and job insecurity. This study progresses knowledge of how organizational members emotionally respond to uncertainty. Considering the “Great Resignation,” managers should clarify newcomers’ roles while veterans and newcomers should acquaint themselves with one another and find common ground for themselves and their organizations.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"193 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43009059","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 : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2227840
Paul Schrodt, Haley Decker
ABSTRACT This study examined the degree to which the association between parents’ nonaccommodation and sexual minorities’ personal-enacted identity gap (PEIG) with their family depends upon feelings of being caught between parents. Participants included 205 sexual minorities who reported on their parents’ unwanted advice about their sexual identity and the degree to which they emphasized divergent values in conversations about LGBTQ+ issues. Reports of both mother’s and father’s nonaccommodation were positively associated with feeling caught between parents. Feeling caught diminished the magnitude of association between parental nonaccommodation and PEIG, although the association remained significant across all levels of feeling caught.
{"title":"Does feeling caught between parents magnify or reduce the association between parents’ nonaccommodation and sexual minorities’ personal-enacted identity gap with family?","authors":"Paul Schrodt, Haley Decker","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2227840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2227840","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the degree to which the association between parents’ nonaccommodation and sexual minorities’ personal-enacted identity gap (PEIG) with their family depends upon feelings of being caught between parents. Participants included 205 sexual minorities who reported on their parents’ unwanted advice about their sexual identity and the degree to which they emphasized divergent values in conversations about LGBTQ+ issues. Reports of both mother’s and father’s nonaccommodation were positively associated with feeling caught between parents. Feeling caught diminished the magnitude of association between parental nonaccommodation and PEIG, although the association remained significant across all levels of feeling caught.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"181 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41612571","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 : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2225852
David E. Clementson, Michael J. Beatty
ABSTRACT Drawing upon parasocial interaction theory, this paper examines the impact of narratives. A randomized experiment (N = 365) is reported in which a company spokesperson in a televised news interview is questioned about a scandal. The spokesperson replies to the journalist with (a) on-topic narratives, (b) off-topic narrative spinning, or (c) nonnarrative information. Multiple mediator modeling indicates nonnarrative information most effectively bolsters the audience’s purchase intentions and reduces negative word-of-mouth. The effect is mediated by parasocial interaction reducing counterargument. Viewers react most adversely to off-topic narrative spinning.
{"title":"Effects of narratives and parasocial interaction on consumer behavioral intentions","authors":"David E. Clementson, Michael J. Beatty","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2225852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2225852","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing upon parasocial interaction theory, this paper examines the impact of narratives. A randomized experiment (N = 365) is reported in which a company spokesperson in a televised news interview is questioned about a scandal. The spokesperson replies to the journalist with (a) on-topic narratives, (b) off-topic narrative spinning, or (c) nonnarrative information. Multiple mediator modeling indicates nonnarrative information most effectively bolsters the audience’s purchase intentions and reduces negative word-of-mouth. The effect is mediated by parasocial interaction reducing counterargument. Viewers react most adversely to off-topic narrative spinning.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"169 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48998967","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 : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2220139
T. Frey
ABSTRACT Researchers have begun using strictness as a framework for better understanding the communicative nature of classroom enforcement strategies. In pursuit of operationalizing this construct, the purpose of this study was to provide extended validity evidence for the Evaluative, Regulatory, and Interactive instructor strictness scales through hypothesized relationships with different instructor communication styles: perceived instructor verbal aggressiveness, assertiveness, and responsiveness. Analyses revealed that the strictness subdimensions were positively related to verbal aggressiveness and assertiveness and inversely related to instructor responsiveness. However, on three occasions, students’ reports of strictness related to Norms, Availability, and Testing were not significantly related to assertiveness. Implications for the future study of instructor strictness using the proposed scales are discussed.
{"title":"A brief validity report for the instructor strictness scales: relationships with instructor communication styles","authors":"T. Frey","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2220139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2220139","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Researchers have begun using strictness as a framework for better understanding the communicative nature of classroom enforcement strategies. In pursuit of operationalizing this construct, the purpose of this study was to provide extended validity evidence for the Evaluative, Regulatory, and Interactive instructor strictness scales through hypothesized relationships with different instructor communication styles: perceived instructor verbal aggressiveness, assertiveness, and responsiveness. Analyses revealed that the strictness subdimensions were positively related to verbal aggressiveness and assertiveness and inversely related to instructor responsiveness. However, on three occasions, students’ reports of strictness related to Norms, Availability, and Testing were not significantly related to assertiveness. Implications for the future study of instructor strictness using the proposed scales are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"146 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47506316","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 : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2221845
Leanna T. Kim, Sang-Hwa Oh
ABSTRACT This study examines telephone anxiety, a form of communication apprehension associated with making and taking a phone call. We theorize that the use of digital communication technologies can influence how anxious one feels about speaking on the phone. Supporting our theorization, we found a positive correlation between using digital technologies and telephone anxiety. Also, such a correlation was greater among non-native English speakers, indicating that the effect of using digital communications could be greater among people with a language barrier. Lastly, findings demonstrated that telephone anxiety might lead to preferring other forms of communication over a phone conversation.
{"title":"Predicting telephone anxiety: use of digital communication technologies, language and cultural barriers, and preference for phone calls","authors":"Leanna T. Kim, Sang-Hwa Oh","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2221845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2221845","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines telephone anxiety, a form of communication apprehension associated with making and taking a phone call. We theorize that the use of digital communication technologies can influence how anxious one feels about speaking on the phone. Supporting our theorization, we found a positive correlation between using digital technologies and telephone anxiety. Also, such a correlation was greater among non-native English speakers, indicating that the effect of using digital communications could be greater among people with a language barrier. Lastly, findings demonstrated that telephone anxiety might lead to preferring other forms of communication over a phone conversation.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"156 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48419859","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 : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2022.2159799
Jonathan Cohen, E. Atad, Tomer Mevorach
ABSTRACT This experimental study explores the effects of narrative perspective on the outcomes related to health testimonials. One testimonial was presented to each respondent regarding one of the four topics (AIDS, lung cancer, gum disease, and alcoholism) and in one of the three perspectives (patient, parent, and doctor). Respondents (n = 967) were then asked to report on various reactions to the video, including credibility, identification, and story-consistent attitudes. Results show that a testimonial narrated from the doctors’ perspective, as compared to patient perspective, produced greater credibility but less identification, affecting persuasion in opposite ways. These findings are discussed in the context of message design choices.
{"title":"Does it matter who tells the story? An experimental test of the effects of narrative perspective on credibility, identification, and persuasion","authors":"Jonathan Cohen, E. Atad, Tomer Mevorach","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2159799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2159799","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This experimental study explores the effects of narrative perspective on the outcomes related to health testimonials. One testimonial was presented to each respondent regarding one of the four topics (AIDS, lung cancer, gum disease, and alcoholism) and in one of the three perspectives (patient, parent, and doctor). Respondents (n = 967) were then asked to report on various reactions to the video, including credibility, identification, and story-consistent attitudes. Results show that a testimonial narrated from the doctors’ perspective, as compared to patient perspective, produced greater credibility but less identification, affecting persuasion in opposite ways. These findings are discussed in the context of message design choices.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"101 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42262031","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 : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2023.2216929
Russell B. Clayton, Katherine R. Dale, Junho Park, Akansha Kharkwal
ABSTRACT A sample of college-aged participants (N = 233) were exposed to a freedom-threatening, excessive alcohol public service announcement. Freedom-threat, psychological reactance, behavioral intentions to consume alcohol, and trait universality were measured following message exposure. Simple-mediation analysis revealed that psychological reactance had a positive indirect effect on the association between freedom-threat and intentions to consume alcohol. Moderation-mediation analysis revealed that trait universality negatively moderated the indirect effect of psychological reactance across three trait universality scores. This study provides support for the two-step model of psychological reactance and evidence that trait universality diminishes freedom-threat, psychological reactance, and behavioral intentions.
{"title":"Universal connectedness: trait universality dampens psychological reactance","authors":"Russell B. Clayton, Katherine R. Dale, Junho Park, Akansha Kharkwal","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2216929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2216929","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A sample of college-aged participants (N = 233) were exposed to a freedom-threatening, excessive alcohol public service announcement. Freedom-threat, psychological reactance, behavioral intentions to consume alcohol, and trait universality were measured following message exposure. Simple-mediation analysis revealed that psychological reactance had a positive indirect effect on the association between freedom-threat and intentions to consume alcohol. Moderation-mediation analysis revealed that trait universality negatively moderated the indirect effect of psychological reactance across three trait universality scores. This study provides support for the two-step model of psychological reactance and evidence that trait universality diminishes freedom-threat, psychological reactance, and behavioral intentions.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"134 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43015687","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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