Pub Date : 2022-11-27DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2151928
Paul Schrodt, Madison George, Andrew M. Ledbetter
ABSTRACT This study examined emerging adults’ financial conversations with parents as mediators of family communication patterns (FCPs) (i.e., family conversation and conformity orientations) and emerging adults’ financial independence (i.e., financial autonomy and self-efficacy). Participants included 202 emerging adults ages 18 to 25. Whereas conversation orientation positively predicted both financial self-efficacy and autonomy, conformity orientation positively predicted only financial autonomy. Indirect associations emerged between both FCP orientations and financial autonomy via the frequency of financial conversations with mother, whereas indirect associations between both FCP orientations and financial self-efficacy emerged via financial conversations with father. The findings extend FCP theory by illuminating distinct explanatory pathways from the family communication environment to financial socialization in emerging adults.
{"title":"Emerging adults’ financial conversations with parents as mediators of family communication patterns and financial Independence","authors":"Paul Schrodt, Madison George, Andrew M. Ledbetter","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2151928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2151928","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined emerging adults’ financial conversations with parents as mediators of family communication patterns (FCPs) (i.e., family conversation and conformity orientations) and emerging adults’ financial independence (i.e., financial autonomy and self-efficacy). Participants included 202 emerging adults ages 18 to 25. Whereas conversation orientation positively predicted both financial self-efficacy and autonomy, conformity orientation positively predicted only financial autonomy. Indirect associations emerged between both FCP orientations and financial autonomy via the frequency of financial conversations with mother, whereas indirect associations between both FCP orientations and financial self-efficacy emerged via financial conversations with father. The findings extend FCP theory by illuminating distinct explanatory pathways from the family communication environment to financial socialization in emerging adults.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"195 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43088346","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 : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2136009
V. Trinh, Sandra L. Faulkner
ABSTRACT We conducted in-depth interviews with 20 LGBTQ+ college students about their salient identities and identity negotiation strategies framing their experiences of negotiating identity gaps that created conflicts between their salient identities using the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI). Participants engaged in three main identity negotiation strategies including identity compartmentalization, gap reconciliation, and ignoring the gap. We developed a model showing the processes of identity negotiation. This study offers a greater understanding of how LGBTQ+ college students communicatively make sense of their various identities and how scholars, practitioners, and college student personnel can contribute to LGBTQ+ college students’ psychosocial well-being.
{"title":"Using the communication theory of identity to examine identity negotiation among LGBTQ+ college students with multiple conflicting salient identities","authors":"V. Trinh, Sandra L. Faulkner","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2136009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2136009","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We conducted in-depth interviews with 20 LGBTQ+ college students about their salient identities and identity negotiation strategies framing their experiences of negotiating identity gaps that created conflicts between their salient identities using the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI). Participants engaged in three main identity negotiation strategies including identity compartmentalization, gap reconciliation, and ignoring the gap. We developed a model showing the processes of identity negotiation. This study offers a greater understanding of how LGBTQ+ college students communicatively make sense of their various identities and how scholars, practitioners, and college student personnel can contribute to LGBTQ+ college students’ psychosocial well-being.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"154 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49313349","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 : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2133622
Jian Shi, Adriana S. Mucedola, Tong Lin, K. N. Green
ABSTRACT Guided by social identity theory, this study sought to understand how ingroup biases relating to political identity moderates the relationship between individuals’ judgments of a politician’s credibility and their perceived partisan ambivalence when they are exposed to news coverage about a politician who addresses their sexual misconduct allegations. A total of 198 participants were randomly assigned in a 2 by 2 between-subjects posttest-only factorial design. Results indicated that individuals who viewed the news story about a politician in their ingroup were more likely to perceive them as credible, and express higher levels of partisan ambivalence than those who viewed the story about an outgroup politician. In addition, the moderation effects suggest that despite problematic behaviors, politicians still receive significant support from their ingroup members, which has the potential to influence political outcomes in reality. Implications of the findings are discussed.
{"title":"Sexual misconduct in politics: how intergroup biases affect judgments of a scandalized politician and partisan ambivalence","authors":"Jian Shi, Adriana S. Mucedola, Tong Lin, K. N. Green","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2133622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2133622","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Guided by social identity theory, this study sought to understand how ingroup biases relating to political identity moderates the relationship between individuals’ judgments of a politician’s credibility and their perceived partisan ambivalence when they are exposed to news coverage about a politician who addresses their sexual misconduct allegations. A total of 198 participants were randomly assigned in a 2 by 2 between-subjects posttest-only factorial design. Results indicated that individuals who viewed the news story about a politician in their ingroup were more likely to perceive them as credible, and express higher levels of partisan ambivalence than those who viewed the story about an outgroup politician. In addition, the moderation effects suggest that despite problematic behaviors, politicians still receive significant support from their ingroup members, which has the potential to influence political outcomes in reality. Implications of the findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"132 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46508079","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 : 2022-10-15DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2133621
Michelle M. Matter
ABSTRACT This study assessed how informal caregivers for people with dementia humorously communicate about their caregiving tasks and experiences. Support groups for informal caregivers for people with dementia were observed, and instances of humor were thematically analyzed. Informal caregivers used humor at specific moments, including when sharing struggles and exchanging advice, and they used various types of humor, including affiliative, self-defeating, aggressive, supportive, and contestive humor. Informal caregivers’ humor use may operate as an effective coping technique and supportive strategy of reinforcement and encouragement, but humor may also be harmful or detrimental to supportive interactions. These findings offer helpful insights into informal caregivers’ communication patterns and reveal humor’s potential to bring individuals relationally closer together, even over difficult topics such as dementia.
{"title":"Adding amusement to anxiety: uses of humor in informal caregiver support groups","authors":"Michelle M. Matter","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2133621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2133621","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study assessed how informal caregivers for people with dementia humorously communicate about their caregiving tasks and experiences. Support groups for informal caregivers for people with dementia were observed, and instances of humor were thematically analyzed. Informal caregivers used humor at specific moments, including when sharing struggles and exchanging advice, and they used various types of humor, including affiliative, self-defeating, aggressive, supportive, and contestive humor. Informal caregivers’ humor use may operate as an effective coping technique and supportive strategy of reinforcement and encouragement, but humor may also be harmful or detrimental to supportive interactions. These findings offer helpful insights into informal caregivers’ communication patterns and reveal humor’s potential to bring individuals relationally closer together, even over difficult topics such as dementia.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"107 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48908348","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 : 2022-08-21DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2112724
Seulgi Park, Fan Yang, M. Hayden, Amanda Morel
ABSTRACT Reproductive health communication can greatly benefit college women by providing informational and emotional support for their reproductive sexual health. However, communication about birth control with friends and sexual partners can be difficult especially if there is stigma around the topic. Applying the Disclosure Decision-Making Model, this study employs a survey of 104 college women regarding their disclosure of birth control status to a peer (Model 1) and a sexual partner (Model 2) to understand the mechanisms of decision-making (i.e., stigma, relational quality, anticipated response, disclosure efficacy) on the depth of disclosing reproductive health information. Results suggest that for both models, relational quality and anticipated response were the predictors of disclosure depth. Although all the significant paths were equivalent in the two models, relational quality predicted anticipated response more strongly in partner model. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
{"title":"Testing the disclosure decision-making model: disclosing birth control status among college women","authors":"Seulgi Park, Fan Yang, M. Hayden, Amanda Morel","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2112724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2112724","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Reproductive health communication can greatly benefit college women by providing informational and emotional support for their reproductive sexual health. However, communication about birth control with friends and sexual partners can be difficult especially if there is stigma around the topic. Applying the Disclosure Decision-Making Model, this study employs a survey of 104 college women regarding their disclosure of birth control status to a peer (Model 1) and a sexual partner (Model 2) to understand the mechanisms of decision-making (i.e., stigma, relational quality, anticipated response, disclosure efficacy) on the depth of disclosing reproductive health information. Results suggest that for both models, relational quality and anticipated response were the predictors of disclosure depth. Although all the significant paths were equivalent in the two models, relational quality predicted anticipated response more strongly in partner model. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"86 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42219423","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 : 2022-08-10DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2109978
Bryan Mclaughlin, J. A. Dunn, John A. Velez, Jeffrey Hunter
ABSTRACT This study examined the role political villains play in individuals’ political imagination, which can then lead to political violence. When there is a threatening villain, partisans should become more likely to construct elaborate narratives about the political world, which can lead them to believe the violence against the opposition is justified. Study 1 uses a survey to provide evidence that exposure to partisan news sources cultivates the perception that opposing candidate pose a grave danger to America, which leads to more narrative thought. In Study 2, an experiment demonstrates that imagining threatening villains creates more narrative thought, which is then related to support for political violence.
{"title":"There must be a villain: political threats, narrative thought, and political violence","authors":"Bryan Mclaughlin, J. A. Dunn, John A. Velez, Jeffrey Hunter","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2109978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2109978","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the role political villains play in individuals’ political imagination, which can then lead to political violence. When there is a threatening villain, partisans should become more likely to construct elaborate narratives about the political world, which can lead them to believe the violence against the opposition is justified. Study 1 uses a survey to provide evidence that exposure to partisan news sources cultivates the perception that opposing candidate pose a grave danger to America, which leads to more narrative thought. In Study 2, an experiment demonstrates that imagining threatening villains creates more narrative thought, which is then related to support for political violence.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"64 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46912918","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 : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2105654
Theresa Davidson, Niya Pickett Miller, Bryan Day
ABSTRACT Historically, representations of Native Americans in media have tended toward a narrative of a people who are savage at worst, primitive and helpless at best. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Native Americans were often featured in news coverage about the viral outbreak. Using close textual analysis, this study differentiates between COVID-19 themed news stories featuring Native Americans as told by Native media sources and those offered by non-Native media sources. Though the representations of Native people offered in the reports from non-Native news agencies were generally sympathetic, they upheld longstanding and negative visual tropes of primitiveness and helplessness. Native news sources, however, portrayed Native people as empowered and community oriented. We conclude that when Native people construct their own stories, even in the midst of a devastating pandemic, their narratives further efforts toward Native self-determination and rearticulate the archetypal framing of Native identity in US news coverage.
{"title":"Primitive or empowered: representations of Native Americans and COVID-19 in news media","authors":"Theresa Davidson, Niya Pickett Miller, Bryan Day","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2105654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2105654","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Historically, representations of Native Americans in media have tended toward a narrative of a people who are savage at worst, primitive and helpless at best. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Native Americans were often featured in news coverage about the viral outbreak. Using close textual analysis, this study differentiates between COVID-19 themed news stories featuring Native Americans as told by Native media sources and those offered by non-Native media sources. Though the representations of Native people offered in the reports from non-Native news agencies were generally sympathetic, they upheld longstanding and negative visual tropes of primitiveness and helplessness. Native news sources, however, portrayed Native people as empowered and community oriented. We conclude that when Native people construct their own stories, even in the midst of a devastating pandemic, their narratives further efforts toward Native self-determination and rearticulate the archetypal framing of Native identity in US news coverage.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"43 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44754678","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 : 2022-07-21DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2099294
L. Hanasono, H. K. Ro, D. A. O'Neil, Ellen M. Broido, M. Yacobucci, S. Peña, K. Root
ABSTRACT As individuals who use their privilege to reduce prejudice, educate others about social justice, and actively stop discrimination, faculty allies can play a vital role in transforming universities to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. However, discrepancies persist in how faculty define privilege and communicate allyship. Drawing from standpoint theory, we examined discursive divergences in how 105 full-time faculty defined and experienced privilege and how they enacted allyship in the workplace. Participants tended to conceptualize privilege as a set of advantages and lack of structural barriers for people based on their group membership(s). Discursive differences emerged regarding the degree to which faculty participants perceived privilege to be un/earned and rooted in structural power, and some participants took ownership of their social privilege while others discursively elided it. When asked to identify specific ally actions, participants often described broad behaviors that aimed to help individuals in interpersonal contexts but did not address actions aimed at dismantling inequitable power structures, revising biased policies, and transforming toxic organizational cultures. Our findings highlight the need for trainings that clarify conceptualizations of privilege and help faculty translate their understanding of allyship into communicative actions that stop discrimination at interpersonal and institutional levels.
{"title":"Communicating privilege and faculty allyship","authors":"L. Hanasono, H. K. Ro, D. A. O'Neil, Ellen M. Broido, M. Yacobucci, S. Peña, K. Root","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2022.2099294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2099294","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As individuals who use their privilege to reduce prejudice, educate others about social justice, and actively stop discrimination, faculty allies can play a vital role in transforming universities to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. However, discrepancies persist in how faculty define privilege and communicate allyship. Drawing from standpoint theory, we examined discursive divergences in how 105 full-time faculty defined and experienced privilege and how they enacted allyship in the workplace. Participants tended to conceptualize privilege as a set of advantages and lack of structural barriers for people based on their group membership(s). Discursive differences emerged regarding the degree to which faculty participants perceived privilege to be un/earned and rooted in structural power, and some participants took ownership of their social privilege while others discursively elided it. When asked to identify specific ally actions, participants often described broad behaviors that aimed to help individuals in interpersonal contexts but did not address actions aimed at dismantling inequitable power structures, revising biased policies, and transforming toxic organizational cultures. Our findings highlight the need for trainings that clarify conceptualizations of privilege and help faculty translate their understanding of allyship into communicative actions that stop discrimination at interpersonal and institutional levels.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"70 1","pages":"560 - 584"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43850239","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 : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2099295
W. Seaton, Gregory A. Cranmer, Carla Y. White, Joseph Bober, Kaley Humphrey, Andrew Obeng
ABSTRACT This study utilizes social identity theory to explore fan responses to the NFL teams’ racial advocacy on Twitter at the start of the 2020 football season. A content analysis of 2,868 direct replies and their corresponding user profiles was conducted. Findings supported SIT’s propositions about in-group bias, with commenters being more supportive and less critical of the activist messaging from the official accounts of teams for whom they express fandom. In contrast to expectations, out-group fans were also more supportive, while non-expressive users were the most active and critical of activist messaging. A post-hoc analysis, subsequently, revealed support for the hierarchy of social identity postulate, with in-group fans with conservative political orientation being most likely to renounce their fandom for NFL teams. Collectively, this study speaks to the resistance toward racial advocacy in sport but also frames fan expression and identity as a means of understanding patterns within these conversations.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2100267
Kelly G. McAninch, Erin D. Basinger, Amy L. Delaney, Erin C. Wehrman
ABSTRACT Chronic illness is both prevalent in U.S. adults and influential in people’s lives and relationships. In this study, we integrate relational turbulence theory with the theory of resilience and relational load to consider associations between perceptions of the relationship, relational maintenance, and two global relationship qualities: resilience and relational load. Results from a cross-sectional online survey of 100 dyads in which at least one partner reported a chronic condition suggest relational turbulence was associated with relational maintenance, which, in turn, was associated with relational load and resilience. Relational maintenance emerged as a mediator in the association between relational turbulence and resilience and relational load in several tests. Communal orientation was positively associated with relational maintenance and indirectly related to resilience and relational load in certain circumstances. We discuss these findings for each theory individually, the value of considering these theories concurrently, and pragmatic advice for couples navigating chronic illness.
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