Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2228868
Aimee E. Miller-Ott, L. Kelly, Samantha Schultz
ABSTRACT With the development of social media, parents must figure out how to guide their children’s use or even whether to allow it. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 parents of daughters aged 12–18. Relational dialectics theory 2.0 was used to analyze how parents’ talk revealed their sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use. Analysis revealed that parents voiced competing discourses pertaining to “bad” versus “good” parents and monitoring versus trusting daughters. Discourses that take place at the distal level compete with those at the proximal site of the utterance chain, challenging parents to engage in sense-making. Findings suggest that the advice of open communication between parent and adolescent addresses only the proximal level and not the distal level of societal expectations for monitoring and close involvement required of the “good parent.” To make sense of and manage competing discourses, parents appear to couple conversations with daughters with voicing discourses of daughter uniqueness as a way to favor trusting over monitoring and still maintain a “good” parent identity.
{"title":"Understanding parents’ sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use through the lens of relational dialectics theory 2.0","authors":"Aimee E. Miller-Ott, L. Kelly, Samantha Schultz","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2228868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2228868","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the development of social media, parents must figure out how to guide their children’s use or even whether to allow it. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 parents of daughters aged 12–18. Relational dialectics theory 2.0 was used to analyze how parents’ talk revealed their sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use. Analysis revealed that parents voiced competing discourses pertaining to “bad” versus “good” parents and monitoring versus trusting daughters. Discourses that take place at the distal level compete with those at the proximal site of the utterance chain, challenging parents to engage in sense-making. Findings suggest that the advice of open communication between parent and adolescent addresses only the proximal level and not the distal level of societal expectations for monitoring and close involvement required of the “good parent.” To make sense of and manage competing discourses, parents appear to couple conversations with daughters with voicing discourses of daughter uniqueness as a way to favor trusting over monitoring and still maintain a “good” parent identity.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"499 - 522"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48651124","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 : 2023-05-13DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2213284
Alessia Zanin-Yost
ABSTRACT This study addresses how foreign faculty adapt their communicative behaviors to the academic workplace. Through a descriptive qualitative approach, the results showed how and why these adaptations occur and how culture is an undeniable component of communication. Two themes emerged, cultural expectations and accent. Together, these factors can prevent foreign faculty from fully adjusting to the academic workplace and create a feeling of otherness. The results of this study suggest that the U.S. academic workplace needs to improve communication among all faculty so that diversity, equity, and inclusion are continuously respected and cultivated. This research is significant because it extends a gap in the literature about the acculturation of foreign-born faculty.
{"title":"Inclusion in the academic workplace: accounts of intercultural communication between faculty","authors":"Alessia Zanin-Yost","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2213284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2213284","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study addresses how foreign faculty adapt their communicative behaviors to the academic workplace. Through a descriptive qualitative approach, the results showed how and why these adaptations occur and how culture is an undeniable component of communication. Two themes emerged, cultural expectations and accent. Together, these factors can prevent foreign faculty from fully adjusting to the academic workplace and create a feeling of otherness. The results of this study suggest that the U.S. academic workplace needs to improve communication among all faculty so that diversity, equity, and inclusion are continuously respected and cultivated. This research is significant because it extends a gap in the literature about the acculturation of foreign-born faculty.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"414 - 435"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47360646","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 : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2205025
Grace M. Hildenbrand, Evan K. Perrault, Mia I. Switzer
ABSTRACT Resting b**ch face (RBF) is described as an unintentional angry facial expression that is evaluated negatively and usually attributed to women. A 2 (smiling/RBF) x 2 (female/male provider) online experiment, guided by expectancy violations theory, investigated whether U.S. adults’ perceptions of a healthcare provider, medical care quality, and likelihood to make another appointment would be impacted by the provider’s facial expression and sex. Results indicated that RBF was an expectancy violation resulting in decreased liking and perceptions of care quality. The female provider with RBF was evaluated more negatively than the smiling female provider and the male provider with RBF on liking, caring, medical care quality, and likelihood to make a future appointment. Additional findings are further discussed in the paper. Patients may hold biases toward providers based on their facial expressions and biological sex.
{"title":"Smiling versus resting B**ch face: patients’ evaluations of male and female healthcare providers’ facial expressions","authors":"Grace M. Hildenbrand, Evan K. Perrault, Mia I. Switzer","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2205025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2205025","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Resting b**ch face (RBF) is described as an unintentional angry facial expression that is evaluated negatively and usually attributed to women. A 2 (smiling/RBF) x 2 (female/male provider) online experiment, guided by expectancy violations theory, investigated whether U.S. adults’ perceptions of a healthcare provider, medical care quality, and likelihood to make another appointment would be impacted by the provider’s facial expression and sex. Results indicated that RBF was an expectancy violation resulting in decreased liking and perceptions of care quality. The female provider with RBF was evaluated more negatively than the smiling female provider and the male provider with RBF on liking, caring, medical care quality, and likelihood to make a future appointment. Additional findings are further discussed in the paper. Patients may hold biases toward providers based on their facial expressions and biological sex.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"390 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43827420","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 : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2203828
Gregory A. Cranmer, Spencer Peltz, Brandon C. Boatwright, Jimmy Sanderson, A. Scheinbaum
ABSTRACT Organizational dissent is ubiquitous in task-oriented groups, including sports teams and leagues. Yet, how and to whom that dissent is voiced and the responses to dissent can vary extensively. This study investigates how professional athletes enact displaced dissent and how the public reacts via sentiment analysis of Trevor Bauer’s YouTube channel. Findings identified 53 triggering agents that were consistent with those of subordinates in traditional workplaces. A novel triggering agent of external stakeholder management was also identified, which addressed Major League Baseball’s focus and consideration for its public, their interest in baseball, and relationships with athletes. Bauer expressed his dissent via 94 messages, mainly featuring a combination of rhetorically effective strategies and emotional release. Sentiment analysis of commenters’ 1,612 replies revealed rhetorically competent messages were either unassociated with or enhanced negative sentiment, but positive sentiment was created through entertainment (i.e. humor and pressure), inclusion (i.e. coalition building), and shared ideals (i.e. inspiration).
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2203827
Lijiang Shen, S. Li, Kelly Sweeney, Daniel Lee
ABSTRACT Revisiting hope as a discrete emotion, we investigated hope as a central concept in this study. Hope was explicated as a positive discrete emotion associated with a nonzero but uncertain prospect (with a probability between 0 and 1) of an unattained goal. Hope can be successfully induced with messages that highlight a discrepancy between the current state and an unattained goal in tandem with a positive but uncertain prospect of goal attainment. Hope’s persuasive impact above and beyond fear was tested in a web-based experiment with health messages that promoted sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) consumption reduction and support for related public policies. Results demonstrated the impact of hope on both SSB consumption reduction and policy support as well as its potential interaction with fear in conferring persuasive effects. These findings offer a guideline for experimental manipulations of hope and set the stage for replications and further tests of moderators.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2203829
Kevin C. Knoster, Alan K. Goodboy
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine how online synchronous teaching using Zoom might be enhanced by incorporating multimedia principles from the cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML). A live lecture teaching experiment was conducted where students were randomly assigned to attend a standard lesson on Zoom (control condition) or the same lesson but with the multimedia principles (signaling, embodiment, and generative activity principles) applied throughout lesson (treatment condition). Results revealed a direct effect of teaching with CTML principles on students’ learning, but there was no evidence for an indirect effect through working memory overload. Additionally, students had more affect toward the (same) instructor who taught with added CTML principles. Pedagogical implications and advice are offered for instructors who teach using Zoom.
{"title":"A zoom teaching experiment using CTML principles of multimedia design","authors":"Kevin C. Knoster, Alan K. Goodboy","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2203829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2203829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine how online synchronous teaching using Zoom might be enhanced by incorporating multimedia principles from the cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML). A live lecture teaching experiment was conducted where students were randomly assigned to attend a standard lesson on Zoom (control condition) or the same lesson but with the multimedia principles (signaling, embodiment, and generative activity principles) applied throughout lesson (treatment condition). Results revealed a direct effect of teaching with CTML principles on students’ learning, but there was no evidence for an indirect effect through working memory overload. Additionally, students had more affect toward the (same) instructor who taught with added CTML principles. Pedagogical implications and advice are offered for instructors who teach using Zoom.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"367 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43977472","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 : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2181094
Tara G. McManus
ABSTRACT The current study builds on the multiple goals approach and planning theory of communication to test how support seekers’ goals and plans for a conversation with a friend moderate the association between received support and conversation satisfaction. The results of the 3-group-comparison experimental design (N = 116; Condition 1: No goals and No plan, n = 38; Condition 2: Goals but No plan, n = 41; Condition 3: Goals and Plan, n = 37), found that although plans were not necessary to improve conversation satisfaction across all types of support and goals, three unique conditions emerged in which plans and goals were important. The results provide partial support for the planning theory of communication, suggest goals and plans may function as expectations or scripts for support seekers, and offer useful recommendations for emerging adults seeking support from friends.
{"title":"The moderating effects of goals and plans on received support during emerging adults’ conversations with friends","authors":"Tara G. McManus","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2181094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2181094","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The current study builds on the multiple goals approach and planning theory of communication to test how support seekers’ goals and plans for a conversation with a friend moderate the association between received support and conversation satisfaction. The results of the 3-group-comparison experimental design (N = 116; Condition 1: No goals and No plan, n = 38; Condition 2: Goals but No plan, n = 41; Condition 3: Goals and Plan, n = 37), found that although plans were not necessary to improve conversation satisfaction across all types of support and goals, three unique conditions emerged in which plans and goals were important. The results provide partial support for the planning theory of communication, suggest goals and plans may function as expectations or scripts for support seekers, and offer useful recommendations for emerging adults seeking support from friends.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"268 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59110133","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 : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2023.2181095
Quinten S. Bernhold
ABSTRACT This dyadic study of middle-aged parents and young adult children tested if perceptions of receiving affectionate communication were associated with tendencies to (a) exceed the speed limit when driving and (b) drive after consuming alcohol. Among other findings, children’s perceptions of receiving verbal affection, nonverbal affection, and social support from their parent were negatively associated with children’s tendency to drive after consuming one or two alcoholic drinks. Applying affection exchange theory to explain engagement in risky behaviors may comprise a nascent area of the theory’s development. Future researchers can consider if the type of relational partner whose perspective is being considered (e.g. a parent versus a child) bears implications for the extent to which affectionate communication is associated with risky behaviors.
{"title":"Parents’ and children’s affectionate communication and risky driving behaviors: a dyadic investigation","authors":"Quinten S. Bernhold","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2181095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2181095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This dyadic study of middle-aged parents and young adult children tested if perceptions of receiving affectionate communication were associated with tendencies to (a) exceed the speed limit when driving and (b) drive after consuming alcohol. Among other findings, children’s perceptions of receiving verbal affection, nonverbal affection, and social support from their parent were negatively associated with children’s tendency to drive after consuming one or two alcoholic drinks. Applying affection exchange theory to explain engagement in risky behaviors may comprise a nascent area of the theory’s development. Future researchers can consider if the type of relational partner whose perspective is being considered (e.g. a parent versus a child) bears implications for the extent to which affectionate communication is associated with risky behaviors.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"296 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48700657","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 : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2164737
Ginger Bihn-Coss, Nichole Egbert
ABSTRACT Doula assistance before, during, and after childbirth can reduce infant mortality, improve birth outcomes, and ensure a birthing person’s physical and emotional needs are met. However, doula care in the U.S. remains underutilized. Both birthing persons and medical providers may be unaware of the support roles doulas fulfill. The goal of this study is to examine how birth doulas communicate about their role as advocates through the provision of social support and describe the barriers they encounter when doing so. In-depth interviews with 10 doulas showed evidence of indirect advocacy through network, emotional, and tangible support as well as direct advocacy through informational and esteem support. Further, doulas discussed barriers related to the hospital setting, compensation, and accessibility. This study aims to cast light on the ways interpersonal health advocacy and support are intertwined in doula work and consider how doula assistance can be optimized and expanded.
{"title":"Supporting in solidarity: An examination of social support, advocacy, and barriers among birthing doulas","authors":"Ginger Bihn-Coss, Nichole Egbert","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2164737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2164737","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Doula assistance before, during, and after childbirth can reduce infant mortality, improve birth outcomes, and ensure a birthing person’s physical and emotional needs are met. However, doula care in the U.S. remains underutilized. Both birthing persons and medical providers may be unaware of the support roles doulas fulfill. The goal of this study is to examine how birth doulas communicate about their role as advocates through the provision of social support and describe the barriers they encounter when doing so. In-depth interviews with 10 doulas showed evidence of indirect advocacy through network, emotional, and tangible support as well as direct advocacy through informational and esteem support. Further, doulas discussed barriers related to the hospital setting, compensation, and accessibility. This study aims to cast light on the ways interpersonal health advocacy and support are intertwined in doula work and consider how doula assistance can be optimized and expanded.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"243 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43595263","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 : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2154167
Alexandra S. Hinck, Lesley Withers, S. Hinck, Rachel Lee
ABSTRACT This study employed a qualitative thematic analysis to gain a deeper insight into post-incarcerated individuals’ narratives about the desistance process posted within an online, naturalistic context. We analyzed 87 online narratives from Prisontalk.com’s (Prison Talk Online; PTO) Success Stories forum, a discussion space focused on the transition to and life after post-incarceration. Four themes were identified from the narratives as posters discussed their continued desistance: 1) being motivated and resilient, 2) changing their self-perceptions, 3) engaging with/in supportive relationships, and 4) creating space for/from community. We found that online desistance narratives are similar to narratives disclosed in face-to-face contexts. Additionally, online spaces and the affordances they offer are important places for post-incarcerated individuals; these spaces offer the opportunity for members of the community to construct and post narratives where post-incarcerated individuals reflect on their previous actions and perform pro-social identities that help the larger carceral community.
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