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":"69 1","pages":"301 - 319"},"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":"69 1","pages":"238 - 258"},"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":"69 1","pages":"215 - 237"},"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":"69 1","pages":"133 - 151"},"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.
{"title":"Promoting subjective well-being through communication savoring","authors":"Jian Jiao, Sara Kim, M. Pitts","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1901758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1901758","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"152 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1901758","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49620409","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: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1913427
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.
{"title":"Identifying home: a narrative of Japanese American internment","authors":"Alexis J. Karolin, Roger C. Aden","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1913427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1913427","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"192 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1913427","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45907119","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: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1881576
Lindsey S. Aloia, Ron Warren
ABSTRACT The proliferation of communication technologies provides channel choices to supplement or substitute face-to-face parent-adolescent conflict. Using social information-processing models as a foundation, this study examined the frequency of text-based and voice-based mediated channels to navigate conflict between parents and adolescents as a function of cognitive beliefs about, affective reactions to, and behavioral preferences for conflict. One hundred and seventy-six parents and paired adolescents completed measures assessing the variables of interest. The results and discussion illuminate how individuals’ schemata for conflict influence preferences for conflict style and the frequency of text-based and voice-based mediated conflict communication.
{"title":"Cognitive beliefs about, affective reactions to, and behavioral preferences for parent-adolescent conflict","authors":"Lindsey S. Aloia, Ron Warren","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2021.1881576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1881576","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The proliferation of communication technologies provides channel choices to supplement or substitute face-to-face parent-adolescent conflict. Using social information-processing models as a foundation, this study examined the frequency of text-based and voice-based mediated channels to navigate conflict between parents and adolescents as a function of cognitive beliefs about, affective reactions to, and behavioral preferences for conflict. One hundred and seventy-six parents and paired adolescents completed measures assessing the variables of interest. The results and discussion illuminate how individuals’ schemata for conflict influence preferences for conflict style and the frequency of text-based and voice-based mediated conflict communication.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"113 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2021.1881576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43240415","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2020.1864429
Yangjing Lin, K. D. Clark
ABSTRACT To better understand the development of ethical communicators, this study applies the framework of Jones’ ethical decision-making model to explore how students in a first-year public speaking class deal with an issue related to plagiarism during a speech assignment. A modified model with five components was developed. An ethical scenario was presented to student participants (n = 383) in multiple sections of a first year general education public speaking course. Moral intensity was found to have a direct impact on three other components of the model: recognition of an ethical issue, making an ethical judgment, and ethical behavioral intentions. Course content and policy related to plagiarism affected students’ ethical behavioral intentions. The interrelationships among these five components are discussed.
{"title":"Speech assignments and plagiarism in first year public speaking classes: an investigation of students’ moral attributes in relation to their behavioral intention","authors":"Yangjing Lin, K. D. Clark","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2020.1864429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2020.1864429","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To better understand the development of ethical communicators, this study applies the framework of Jones’ ethical decision-making model to explore how students in a first-year public speaking class deal with an issue related to plagiarism during a speech assignment. A modified model with five components was developed. An ethical scenario was presented to student participants (n = 383) in multiple sections of a first year general education public speaking course. Moral intensity was found to have a direct impact on three other components of the model: recognition of an ethical issue, making an ethical judgment, and ethical behavioral intentions. Course content and policy related to plagiarism affected students’ ethical behavioral intentions. The interrelationships among these five components are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"23 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01463373.2020.1864429","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44655273","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2021.1877163
E. Doherty
ABSTRACT Considerable research has examined turning points within romantic relationships, but studies exploring turning points in the context of friendship are relatively scarce and focus mainly on friendships among college students. Friendships between women during the post-college years through middle-age have received scant attention. Utilizing an adaptation of the Retrospective Interview Technique, semi-structured interviews were conducted with women (N = 30) ages 25 to 45 in order to identify turning points related to changes in closeness in significant same-sex friendships during adulthood. Results suggest that turning points and social support are closely linked in terms of their impact on closeness in female friendships. Overall, findings contribute to an understanding of why closeness levels fluctuate between female friends during the adult years.
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