Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2022.2037542
Laurel R Benjamin, Shu-wen Wang
ABSTRACT The current study explored diverse forms of social technology and their corresponding links to distress and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multinational sample of 302 adults in the United States, Mexico, and Japan self-reported on their use of various forms of social technology, psychological distress, and happiness. Results revealed cultural differences in the amount of social technology use (Mexicans highest, Japanese lowest). While total social technology use positively predicted both distress and happiness, specific forms of social technology differentially predicted distress and happiness. Videoconferencing was associated with lower distress and greater happiness, whereas social media was associated with greater distress and lower happiness. Findings also showed that the use of dating apps was a marginally significant negative predictor of both distress and happiness. These findings suggest that forms of social technology that better mirror in-person interaction may confer greater mental health benefits compared to those that are less naturalistic.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2022.2027751
B. Sherrick, Jennifer Hoewe
ABSTRACT This study investigates how advertising-based sustainability messaging is influenced by message-source congruity, narrative engagement, and identification. Using two experimental designs, the results show that sustainability messaging improves evaluations of sources that are congruent with sustainability messaging, when compared to sources that are not. Featuring groups of people – rather than an individual – in these messages may work to further magnify those positive evaluations (Study 1). Most interestingly, while narrative messaging was not on-the-whole more persuasive, a message presented in narrative form appears effective in overcoming message-source incongruity in the context of sustainability-focused advertisements.
{"title":"The roles of congruity, narrative, and identification in sustainability messaging","authors":"B. Sherrick, Jennifer Hoewe","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2027751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2027751","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates how advertising-based sustainability messaging is influenced by message-source congruity, narrative engagement, and identification. Using two experimental designs, the results show that sustainability messaging improves evaluations of sources that are congruent with sustainability messaging, when compared to sources that are not. Featuring groups of people – rather than an individual – in these messages may work to further magnify those positive evaluations (Study 1). Most interestingly, while narrative messaging was not on-the-whole more persuasive, a message presented in narrative form appears effective in overcoming message-source incongruity in the context of sustainability-focused advertisements.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"69 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46387958","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.2025045
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, Kelsey Earle, Jacqueline Silverstone, Marissa Immel, M. Carlisle, N. Campbell
ABSTRACT Communication between family members facilitated sensemaking and coping with uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic for many, however, accessing this form of coping can be challenging for marginalized family members who maintain relational distance with family. This study sought to understand how family communication changed during the COVID-19 pandemic for marginalized family members and how those changes were associated with family communication patterns. Conversation orientation was associated with increases in family communication quantity and quality. Perceptions of family member marginalization mediated the relationship between (a) conversation orientation and (b) conformity orientation and quality of family communication change.
{"title":"Changes in family communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of family communication patterns and relational distance","authors":"Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, Kelsey Earle, Jacqueline Silverstone, Marissa Immel, M. Carlisle, N. Campbell","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2021.2025045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.2025045","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Communication between family members facilitated sensemaking and coping with uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic for many, however, accessing this form of coping can be challenging for marginalized family members who maintain relational distance with family. This study sought to understand how family communication changed during the COVID-19 pandemic for marginalized family members and how those changes were associated with family communication patterns. Conversation orientation was associated with increases in family communication quantity and quality. Perceptions of family member marginalization mediated the relationship between (a) conversation orientation and (b) conformity orientation and quality of family communication change.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"56 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47902794","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.2012757
Rory McGloin, Amanda Coletti, Emily K. Hamlin, A. Denes
ABSTRACT This study examined how the COVID-19 pandemic and related work-from-home (WFH) mandates impacted the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels in the workplace and how the use of CMC channels influenced the perceived quality of supervisory relationships. A survey was administered during spring 2020 to a sample of U.S. employees required to work remotely due to COVID-19. The findings indicated a significant relationship between the use of text messaging and rapport, a signal that the building or maintaining of interpersonal rapport in today’s workplace may require more personal (and less formal/traditional) channels of communication. The results also revealed that employees with higher levels of CMC apprehension had lower rapport with their supervisors. The findings have implications for organizations that may have moved (or will move) to more remote work settings, and suggestions are offered for mitigating the impact of CMC-only interactions on supervisory relationships.
{"title":"Required to work from home: examining transitions to digital communication channels during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Rory McGloin, Amanda Coletti, Emily K. Hamlin, A. Denes","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2021.2012757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.2012757","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined how the COVID-19 pandemic and related work-from-home (WFH) mandates impacted the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels in the workplace and how the use of CMC channels influenced the perceived quality of supervisory relationships. A survey was administered during spring 2020 to a sample of U.S. employees required to work remotely due to COVID-19. The findings indicated a significant relationship between the use of text messaging and rapport, a signal that the building or maintaining of interpersonal rapport in today’s workplace may require more personal (and less formal/traditional) channels of communication. The results also revealed that employees with higher levels of CMC apprehension had lower rapport with their supervisors. The findings have implications for organizations that may have moved (or will move) to more remote work settings, and suggestions are offered for mitigating the impact of CMC-only interactions on supervisory relationships.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"44 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47754129","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 : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.2007070
Mallory R. Perryman
ABSTRACT This study focuses on how American audiences perceived news coverage during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. Through a survey-experiment of news consumers (N = 767) over a three-day period in mid-March 2020, this study shows that citizens had positive attitudes toward their own Covid-19 news sources, but were critical about the news sources others were using to get information about the virus. Data reveal evidence of presumed media influence, where audiences believed others’ health behaviors were being influenced by pandemic news.
{"title":"My pandemic news is better than yours: audience perceptions of early news coverage about Covid-19","authors":"Mallory R. Perryman","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2021.2007070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.2007070","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focuses on how American audiences perceived news coverage during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States. Through a survey-experiment of news consumers (N = 767) over a three-day period in mid-March 2020, this study shows that citizens had positive attitudes toward their own Covid-19 news sources, but were critical about the news sources others were using to get information about the virus. Data reveal evidence of presumed media influence, where audiences believed others’ health behaviors were being influenced by pandemic news.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"34 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43901760","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 : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.2007069
Amy L. Delaney, Gabi N. Singleton
ABSTRACT Pregnancy-related death, the death of a woman during or within one year after pregnancy, is between three and four times more likely to occur in Black women than White women. To better understand communication about this public health crisis, we examined features of news coverage on maternal mortality in 155 newspaper articles. Very few articles included a clear definition of the problem, and only about a third mentioned that these deaths are largely preventable. Additionally, 61% referenced the racial disparity, but within those, most did not discuss substantive causes of inequities. In terms of message features, about one third of articles used a patient narrative, with less than 10% referencing a celebrity’s patient experience. Very few (5%) articles included information about the history of mistreatment of Black patients in American health care. Together, the findings suggest current newspaper coverage does not effectively address social determinants of maternal health outcomes.
{"title":"A content analysis of newspaper coverage of maternal mortality from 2010-2019","authors":"Amy L. Delaney, Gabi N. Singleton","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2021.2007069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.2007069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Pregnancy-related death, the death of a woman during or within one year after pregnancy, is between three and four times more likely to occur in Black women than White women. To better understand communication about this public health crisis, we examined features of news coverage on maternal mortality in 155 newspaper articles. Very few articles included a clear definition of the problem, and only about a third mentioned that these deaths are largely preventable. Additionally, 61% referenced the racial disparity, but within those, most did not discuss substantive causes of inequities. In terms of message features, about one third of articles used a patient narrative, with less than 10% referencing a celebrity’s patient experience. Very few (5%) articles included information about the history of mistreatment of Black patients in American health care. Together, the findings suggest current newspaper coverage does not effectively address social determinants of maternal health outcomes.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"24 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42241730","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 : 2021-11-12DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.2001324
D. Mansson, Mathilde Duflos, C. Giraudeau
ABSTRACT In response to the many calls for the advancement of cross-cultural communication research, we compared U.S. and French grandchildren’s received grandparental affection and perceptions of their grandparents as ideal (i.e., grandparent attributes and behaviors that grandchildren believe characterize a desirable grandparent). A total of 456 young adult grandchildren from the U.S. (n = 171) and France (n = 285) completed the Grandchildren’s Received Affection Scale (GRAS) and the Ideal Grandparent Scale (IGS) in reference to their relationships with a specific grandparent. Results of a MANOVA and an independent samples t-test indicated that, compared to French grandchildren, U.S. grandchildren scored higher on both the GRAS and the IGS. These findings are discussed in reference to how these differences may impact grandchildren and grandparents.
{"title":"Comparing U.S. and French grandparent-grandchild relationships","authors":"D. Mansson, Mathilde Duflos, C. Giraudeau","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2021.2001324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.2001324","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In response to the many calls for the advancement of cross-cultural communication research, we compared U.S. and French grandchildren’s received grandparental affection and perceptions of their grandparents as ideal (i.e., grandparent attributes and behaviors that grandchildren believe characterize a desirable grandparent). A total of 456 young adult grandchildren from the U.S. (n = 171) and France (n = 285) completed the Grandchildren’s Received Affection Scale (GRAS) and the Ideal Grandparent Scale (IGS) in reference to their relationships with a specific grandparent. Results of a MANOVA and an independent samples t-test indicated that, compared to French grandchildren, U.S. grandchildren scored higher on both the GRAS and the IGS. These findings are discussed in reference to how these differences may impact grandchildren and grandparents.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"12 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48342322","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 : 2021-11-12DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.2001323
Kay Yoon, Elena Svetieva
ABSTRACT Capitalizing on team members’ knowledge resources is one of the key determinants of the success of a work team, and team leaders play an important role in cultivating team members’ motivation to share their knowledge with each other. This study examined the effects of a leader’s communicative framing of team goals on individuals’ knowledge-sharing intention in a team setting. An experimental study with a 2 (leader’s regulatory focus: promotion vs. prevention) X 2 (leader’s reward focus: process vs. outcome) factorial design revealed that the leader’s process-based reward framing leads to a significantly higher level of knowledge sharing intention than the leader’s outcome-based reward framing. This result suggests that a leader’s communicative framing that emphasizes and incentivizes collaborative processes as opposed to the team’s end outcomes is more likely to encourage team knowledge sharing.
{"title":"Leadership and knowledge sharing in teams: The effects of the leader's communicative framing of team goals","authors":"Kay Yoon, Elena Svetieva","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2021.2001323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.2001323","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Capitalizing on team members’ knowledge resources is one of the key determinants of the success of a work team, and team leaders play an important role in cultivating team members’ motivation to share their knowledge with each other. This study examined the effects of a leader’s communicative framing of team goals on individuals’ knowledge-sharing intention in a team setting. An experimental study with a 2 (leader’s regulatory focus: promotion vs. prevention) X 2 (leader’s reward focus: process vs. outcome) factorial design revealed that the leader’s process-based reward framing leads to a significantly higher level of knowledge sharing intention than the leader’s outcome-based reward framing. This result suggests that a leader’s communicative framing that emphasizes and incentivizes collaborative processes as opposed to the team’s end outcomes is more likely to encourage team knowledge sharing.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47023397","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 : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.1983424
E. Malova
ABSTRACT Timely vaccination against COVID-19 can prevent many people from getting infected. However, given the disease novelty and fast vaccine development, some people are hesitant to vaccinate. Online social networks like Twitter produce huge amounts of public health information and may impact peoples’ vaccination decisions. Hence, it is important to understand the conversation around the COVID-19 vaccination through the lens of social media. The present study aimed to define the nature of a larger Twitter conversation around the COVID-19 vaccine and explored interaction patterns between Twitter users engaged in such a conversation. Results of this study show that mixed-emotions reactions and discussions about potential side effects and vaccine safety dominated the online conversation. Four main network clusters highlighted different groups of conversation stakeholders. This study findings emphasize the importance of Twitter surveillance and highlight conversational patterns and prevailing sentiments that dominate online social networks during a major health crisis.
{"title":"Understanding online conversations about COVID-19 vaccine on Twitter: vaccine hesitancy amid the public health crisis","authors":"E. Malova","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2021.1983424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2021.1983424","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Timely vaccination against COVID-19 can prevent many people from getting infected. However, given the disease novelty and fast vaccine development, some people are hesitant to vaccinate. Online social networks like Twitter produce huge amounts of public health information and may impact peoples’ vaccination decisions. Hence, it is important to understand the conversation around the COVID-19 vaccination through the lens of social media. The present study aimed to define the nature of a larger Twitter conversation around the COVID-19 vaccine and explored interaction patterns between Twitter users engaged in such a conversation. Results of this study show that mixed-emotions reactions and discussions about potential side effects and vaccine safety dominated the online conversation. Four main network clusters highlighted different groups of conversation stakeholders. This study findings emphasize the importance of Twitter surveillance and highlight conversational patterns and prevailing sentiments that dominate online social networks during a major health crisis.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"38 1","pages":"346 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42707243","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 : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2021.1974825
Kenneth T. Rocker, Stephanie Kelly, J. Cullinane, S. Croucher, Kirsty Anderson
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic brought about significant changes in how people communicate with, and participate in, organizations. This study used structurational divergence to explore the extent to which, during the time of COVID-19, organizational members experienced communication tensions between superiors and subordinates. This study of 956 participants’ experiences suggests that, during a time of upheaval when there is less opportunity for face-to-face communication, supervisors must be cognizant of their use of computer-mediated immediate behaviors. If they do this well, they can ameliorate subordinates’ experiences of structural divergence and reduced efficacy of organizations.
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