Pub Date : 2021-05-27DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1944889
Josh C. Bramlett
ABSTRACT Political debates provide candidates the opportunity to brand themselves to voters. Through an analysis of survey responses from participants who viewed one of two 2018 U.S. Senate debates, the current study incorporates a political marketing perspective to analyze how televised political debates influence voters’ brand associations toward candidates. This study introduces the concept of Debate Candidate Branding, where participating in a debate is more likely to generate positive associations with supporters than it is to generate negative associations with detractors. Each of the candidates in this study saw more positive in-group associations than negative out-group associations, highlighting the potential of debates as branding opportunities. Moreover, brand favorability, i.e., how many positive or negative thoughts individuals had toward candidates, was significantly associated with changes in candidate evaluations. Additionally, respondents offered more brand associations about the candidates as people than they did about the policy positions or party affiliation of the candidates.
{"title":"Battles for branding: a political marketing approach to studying televised candidate debates","authors":"Josh C. Bramlett","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1944889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1944889","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Political debates provide candidates the opportunity to brand themselves to voters. Through an analysis of survey responses from participants who viewed one of two 2018 U.S. Senate debates, the current study incorporates a political marketing perspective to analyze how televised political debates influence voters’ brand associations toward candidates. This study introduces the concept of Debate Candidate Branding, where participating in a debate is more likely to generate positive associations with supporters than it is to generate negative associations with detractors. Each of the candidates in this study saw more positive in-group associations than negative out-group associations, highlighting the potential of debates as branding opportunities. Moreover, brand favorability, i.e., how many positive or negative thoughts individuals had toward candidates, was significantly associated with changes in candidate evaluations. Additionally, respondents offered more brand associations about the candidates as people than they did about the policy positions or party affiliation of the candidates.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1944889","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45012115","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 : 2021-05-27DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1940232
S. Chung, Eunjin Kim, J. Houston
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of two types of perceived online social support (i.e., informational support and emotional support) on Parkinson’s disease patients’ psychological quality of life. Also, this study examined the mediating effects of uncertainty between perceived informational support and psychological quality life, and the mediating effects of contentment between perceived emotional support and psychological quality of life. Parkinson’s disease patients (N = 124) from three different online peer support groups participated in a survey. The results revealed that perceived emotional support increased psychological quality of life via contentment. Practical implications and future research recommendations were proposed.
{"title":"Perceived online social support for Parkinson’s disease patients: The role of support type, uncertainty, contentment, and psychological quality of life","authors":"S. Chung, Eunjin Kim, J. Houston","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1940232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1940232","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of two types of perceived online social support (i.e., informational support and emotional support) on Parkinson’s disease patients’ psychological quality of life. Also, this study examined the mediating effects of uncertainty between perceived informational support and psychological quality life, and the mediating effects of contentment between perceived emotional support and psychological quality of life. Parkinson’s disease patients (N = 124) from three different online peer support groups participated in a survey. The results revealed that perceived emotional support increased psychological quality of life via contentment. Practical implications and future research recommendations were proposed.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1940232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49410889","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 : 2021-05-27DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1951792
Colin Hesse, Alan C. Mikkelson
ABSTRACT The current study examined excessive affection, the perception that someone is receiving more affection than they would prefer. The study posed several hypotheses over three studies that all dealt with various psychosocial correlates of excessive affection. Specifically, the first two studies examined correlates of a more general perception of excessive affection (which were largely unsupported except for both anxious and avoidant attachment), while the third study examined correlates of a more specific perception of excessive affection within romantic relationships. Nearly all of the hypotheses were supported in the third study, including relationships with stress, loneliness, and relational satisfaction.
{"title":"Relational and health correlates of excessive affection","authors":"Colin Hesse, Alan C. Mikkelson","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1951792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1951792","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The current study examined excessive affection, the perception that someone is receiving more affection than they would prefer. The study posed several hypotheses over three studies that all dealt with various psychosocial correlates of excessive affection. Specifically, the first two studies examined correlates of a more general perception of excessive affection (which were largely unsupported except for both anxious and avoidant attachment), while the third study examined correlates of a more specific perception of excessive affection within romantic relationships. Nearly all of the hypotheses were supported in the third study, including relationships with stress, loneliness, and relational satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1951792","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42475805","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 : 2021-05-27DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1951790
Ashley M. Peterson, Michelle Acevedo Callejas
ABSTRACT On social question and answer sites (Q&As), users engage each other in a community built on seeking and providing informational support. On these sites, question askers select and assess advice provided by other users. Using the dual-process theory of supportive communication and advice response theory, we examined how message features and user characteristics influence question askers’ selection and evaluation of the quality of provided answers. Through a content analysis of Yahoo! Answers questions and answers (N = 450), we found that message features signaling social relationships were associated with a question asker’s selection and rating of answers. We discuss theoretical implications of these findings.
{"title":"Using dual-process theory and cues of identifiability to explain supportive exchanges on social question and answer sites","authors":"Ashley M. Peterson, Michelle Acevedo Callejas","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1951790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1951790","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT On social question and answer sites (Q&As), users engage each other in a community built on seeking and providing informational support. On these sites, question askers select and assess advice provided by other users. Using the dual-process theory of supportive communication and advice response theory, we examined how message features and user characteristics influence question askers’ selection and evaluation of the quality of provided answers. Through a content analysis of Yahoo! Answers questions and answers (N = 450), we found that message features signaling social relationships were associated with a question asker’s selection and rating of answers. We discuss theoretical implications of these findings.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1951790","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42533903","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 : 2021-05-19DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1920443
A. Richards, E. Bessarabova, John Banas, Micah Larsen
ABSTRACT This study assessed the relative effects of reactance mitigation strategies specifically designed to prevent or restore threatened autonomy according to message recipients’ levels of reactance proneness. An experiment (N = 230) using a 2 (inoculation mitigation: present vs. absent) × 2 (freedom threatening language: high vs. low) × 2 (restoration postscript mitigation: present vs. absent) between-subjects design was performed in the context of a safe-sex campaign message. Results showed that message strategies affected state reactance differently across levels of trait reactance. In particular, for those high in trait reactance, inoculation uniquely reduced perceived threat to freedom, which indirectly increased safe-sex intention via state reactance and attitude toward the health behavior. These results demonstrate the importance of using trait reactance as an audience segmentation variable.
{"title":"Freedom-prompting reactance mitigation strategies function differently across levels of trait reactance","authors":"A. Richards, E. Bessarabova, John Banas, Micah Larsen","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1920443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1920443","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study assessed the relative effects of reactance mitigation strategies specifically designed to prevent or restore threatened autonomy according to message recipients’ levels of reactance proneness. An experiment (N = 230) using a 2 (inoculation mitigation: present vs. absent) × 2 (freedom threatening language: high vs. low) × 2 (restoration postscript mitigation: present vs. absent) between-subjects design was performed in the context of a safe-sex campaign message. Results showed that message strategies affected state reactance differently across levels of trait reactance. In particular, for those high in trait reactance, inoculation uniquely reduced perceived threat to freedom, which indirectly increased safe-sex intention via state reactance and attitude toward the health behavior. These results demonstrate the importance of using trait reactance as an audience segmentation variable.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1920443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41453607","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 : 2021-05-16DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1920442
Allison M. Alford
ABSTRACT This study explores the mother-daughter relationship by examining daughters’ constructions of the mother-daughter relationship in adulthood. Using the guiding concepts of symbolic interactionism and interactional role theory, this study explores the discursive constructions of the adult daughter role through daughters’ stories of everyday daughtering. I conducted in-depth interviews with 33 adult daughters in the United States between the ages 25–44, each with a healthy, living mother. Findings indicate that adult daughtering is an effortful and agentic process that contributes to a thriving mother-daughter relationship. Additionally, the agentic performance of adult daughtering is largely hidden from society’s notice resulting in an unfortunate lack of language for role players to discuss it. Practical implications for mother-daughter pairs are discussed and tips are provided for practitioners who help mothers and daughters thrive.
{"title":"Doing daughtering: an exploration of adult daughters’ constructions of role portrayals in relation to mothers","authors":"Allison M. Alford","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1920442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1920442","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores the mother-daughter relationship by examining daughters’ constructions of the mother-daughter relationship in adulthood. Using the guiding concepts of symbolic interactionism and interactional role theory, this study explores the discursive constructions of the adult daughter role through daughters’ stories of everyday daughtering. I conducted in-depth interviews with 33 adult daughters in the United States between the ages 25–44, each with a healthy, living mother. Findings indicate that adult daughtering is an effortful and agentic process that contributes to a thriving mother-daughter relationship. Additionally, the agentic performance of adult daughtering is largely hidden from society’s notice resulting in an unfortunate lack of language for role players to discuss it. Practical implications for mother-daughter pairs are discussed and tips are provided for practitioners who help mothers and daughters thrive.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1920442","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43432656","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 : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1887310
Sara LaBelle, Zac D. Johnson
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of student-to-student confirmation on college students’ self-reported mental health and well-being. It was proposed that confirming messages work to reduce indicators of mental illness (i.e., depression, stress, and anxiety), which in turn affect students’ mental health (i.e., psychological well-being). College students (N = 412) completed a survey questionnaire. Results of correlational and mediation analyses indicate that student-to-student confirmation is related to psychological well-being as well as indicators of mental illness (i.e., depression). Self-reported depression symptoms mediated the relationship between all three dimensions of student-to-student confirmation and psychological well-being. This study contributes to the growing conversation of college student mental health and its relation to the teaching-learning process, as well as contributing to the theoretical understanding of confirmation in the college classroom.
{"title":"The relationship of student-to-student confirmation in the classroom to college students’ mental health and well-being","authors":"Sara LaBelle, Zac D. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1887310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1887310","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of student-to-student confirmation on college students’ self-reported mental health and well-being. It was proposed that confirming messages work to reduce indicators of mental illness (i.e., depression, stress, and anxiety), which in turn affect students’ mental health (i.e., psychological well-being). College students (N = 412) completed a survey questionnaire. Results of correlational and mediation analyses indicate that student-to-student confirmation is related to psychological well-being as well as indicators of mental illness (i.e., depression). Self-reported depression symptoms mediated the relationship between all three dimensions of student-to-student confirmation and psychological well-being. This study contributes to the growing conversation of college student mental health and its relation to the teaching-learning process, as well as contributing to the theoretical understanding of confirmation in the college classroom.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1887310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49655021","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 : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1901759
John McLaren, Susan Bryant, Brian Brown
ABSTRACT The representation of transgender characters in fictional television has often been plagued by stereotypical and negative portrayals that do not accurately reflect the real experiences of transgender people. This research thus takes as its focus more recent North American television shows in order to assess whether improved forms of representation exist. Using a combination of Content Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis, this study analyzes how transgender characters in Orange is the New Black and The Fosters are represented. This research found that the improvement of representation in these shows is indicative of a trend toward more positive representation. The characters of Cole, Sophia, and Aaron are represented in both positive and groundbreaking ways. While there is still work to be done in terms of increasing the complexity and range of such representations, these improvements signal a step in the right direction.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1901758
Jian Jiao, Sara Kim, M. Pitts
ABSTRACT The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions articulates the merit of positive emotions in promoting well-being. Using an online two-group posttest-only randomized experimental design, this study examined the effects of communication savoring on subjective well-being (i.e., positive and negative affect, happiness, and life satisfaction) among young adults (M age = 20.97, SD = 1.91). After writing about a communication moment they savored and savoring the positive emotions derived from reminiscence, participants in the experimental group (n = 90) reported higher levels of positive affect and lower levels of negative affect compared to participants in the comparison group (n = 87) who wrote about a communication moment they recently experienced. Moreover, results showed that the one-time communication savoring intervention was indirectly related to higher levels of happiness and life satisfaction through both positive and negative affect. Results bolster recent theorizing about communication savoring as a distinctive positive communication construct.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1913427
Alexis J. Karolin, Roger C. Aden
ABSTRACT This work explores how Japanese American children from San Diego, California dealt with the disruption in their notion of home during World War II after the passage of Executive Order 9066. The authors analyzed 243 letters from the Japanese American National Museum Clara Breed Letter Collection to uncover themes in children’s experiences of internment. The authors discovered that the children simultaneously struggled with displacement from their physical home and their identity as a U.S. citizen, sought to anchor themselves to San Diego to maintain their connection to both their home and identity, and worked to shape their new environment into a replacement home while distancing themselves from their Japanese heritage.
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