{"title":"Conversations about death with those who experience it the most","authors":"Trevor Kauer, Maureen P. Keeley","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2019.1664622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2019.1664622","url":null,"abstract":"Using Communication Privacy Management (CPM), this study analyzed Emergency Healthcare Providers (EHP; i.e., Emergency Room Nurses, Paramedics, Emergency Medical Technicians, etc.) frequent experience of witnessing death, the dying processes, and regular involvement at the end-of-life. Twenty interviews from across the United States offered accounts of witnessing the death of a patient, communicating with the patient’s families, coworkers, and personal networks. The first research question explored the population’s normalization of death and changed outlook of dying. This population sees death and dying in real-time and must disconnect at the moment from their emotions to do their jobs. The second research question focused on preparing patient families for death, coping with coworkers, and protecting personal networks. In communicating with patient families, EHP educates/answers questions, advocate for families to be present during life-saving procedures and offer verbal and nonverbal comfort. In talking with coworkers, EHP copes with reassuring skill competency and offering emotional social support. Lastly, in communicating with their networks, EHP struggle with discussing emotions and event details in a protective function. From these results, the benefits, and challenges of communicating about death regularly are offered through a CPM lens, and recommendations to help the general population deal with death are given.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"403 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132272453","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}
{"title":"Boundary management strategies reflecting the discourse-dependent nature of work-spouse relationships","authors":"Aimee E. Miller-Ott","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2019.1578820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2019.1578820","url":null,"abstract":"The work-spouse relationship has gained scholarly and popular media attention in recent years. Because the relationship is a blend of friendship, workplace relationship, and intimate partnership, work spouses may have the need to justify and explain the relationship to each other and to external parties to help them make sense of the relationship and to establish its legitimacy. I used the concept of discourse-dependency to analyze interviews with 20 people in a work-spouse relationships and found that they engage in boundary management strategies, specifically naming and labeling, to legitimize their work-spouse relationships.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124082629","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}
{"title":"The false dichotomy of message desirability in third-person effect scholarship","authors":"David R. Dewberry","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2019.1572643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2019.1572643","url":null,"abstract":"Meta-reviews of the third-person effect literature explain that scholars have assumed that certain messages are desirable or undesirable. In response, this study examines messages that vary in their social desirability so that we can better understand the specific characteristics of socially (un)desirable messages, how people account for changes in their perceptions of a message’s desirability, and the resulting behaviors from those perceptions.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121612117","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}
R. Clair, Rahul Rastogi, Seungyoon Lee, R. Clawson, E. R. Blatchley, C. Erdmann
{"title":"A qualitative study of communication, cultural identity, and open defecation","authors":"R. Clair, Rahul Rastogi, Seungyoon Lee, R. Clawson, E. R. Blatchley, C. Erdmann","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2018.1476906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2018.1476906","url":null,"abstract":"Open defecation persists as a global health problem despite efforts to build and implement better toilets. Based on nine focus group meetings held across two communities in rural Uttar Pradesh, India, this study shows that open defecation is a symbolic practice contributing to social and cultural identity formation. Major themes were derived regarding the positives and negatives of open defecation and latrine use. Open defecation was considered as a means for social communication, particularly for girls and women, and not necessarily as a healthier practice. Issues of politics and class relations emerged, with lower caste people expressing the lack of or poor quality toilets. Yet the persistence of historical and cultural identity played a part in people’s preference to go out to the field to defecate, especially for women to sustain their social connectedness and men to sustain their masculine identity. These cultural and communication aspects of open defecation should be considered in ongoing sanitation movements.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133011591","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}
{"title":"“Who am I to say something?”: College students’ perceptions of peer interventions in the nonmedical use of prescription stimulants","authors":"Sara LaBelle","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2017.1418415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2017.1418415","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to examine college students’ perceptions of a peer intervention to prevent or reduce the nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NPS) on college campuses. A semi-structured moderator guide was used to discuss college students’ perceptions of their barriers and efficacy in intervening on behalf of their friends, as well as the expected outcomes of such an intervention. Rich discussions of both the hesitations and motivations for engaging in this behavior were had with the 46 participants in the study across five one-hour focus group sessions. Participant narratives surrounding this phenomenon revealed that they perceive a number of barriers to intervening as well as a series of conditions for intervening, accompanied by a low sense of efficacy for such an intervention. The results of these discussions are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"87 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117093403","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}
{"title":"Family favoritism: Defining a communication-oriented construct","authors":"J. Manning, Andrea Lambert South","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2017.1418416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2017.1418416","url":null,"abstract":"This study draws from 98 participant interviews to develop an empirical definition of family favoritism. Results indicate that study participants understand favoritism as a consistent, sometimes situational parental demonstration of preferential treatment toward a particular child, especially in consideration of attention, resources, and affection. Considering a communication as constitutive of reality perspective in conjunction with the definition helps to illuminate the communicative nature of favoritism, especially as participants recognize how attention and affection are communicated and resources are offered. The results of this study suggest that communication is constitutive of favoritism, and further studies should consider communication’s centrality in familial favoritism.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122459275","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}
{"title":"Exploring employee engagement through communication","authors":"S. Schroeder, Daniel P. Modaff","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2018.1468807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2018.1468807","url":null,"abstract":"Employee engagement has been shown to be related to higher organizational productivity and profitability, among other favorable outcomes; however, there is disagreement in the literature regarding the definition of employee engagement and how employees enact their engagement. The current study explored how employees of a cooperative communicatively displayed their own engagement to others inside and outside of the organization. Fifteen semi-structured interviews with employees were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results showed that employees displayed their engagement to others through external displays, which contradicts past research done on employee engagement. The study also revealed that social exchanges occurred between the organization and the employees. The ways in which employees communicated their engagement was a direct response to the exchanges occurring between these multiple stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128139555","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}
{"title":"Plain journalism: The maintenance of a “vocabulary of kinship” in an Amish newspaper","authors":"M. C. Carey","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2017.1388832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2017.1388832","url":null,"abstract":"Media may serve as avenues for the expression of common ideals and values that help individuals place themselves in a community of like-minded people. Using Benedict Anderson’s notion of a mediated “vocabulary of kinship” that binds individuals together, this study illustrates the ways the very structure of media content can encourage feelings of commonality. The vehicle for this inquiry is The Budget, a weekly newspaper produced by and for a North American audience of Amish and Mennonite readers. The research suggests that structural aspects of dispatches in The Budget, such as conversational and intentionally informal writing styles, the encouragement of dialog, and use of particular dialects and phrases, reinforce values of familiarity and intimacy that are central to Amish and Mennonite culture.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130099181","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}
{"title":"“I thought I’d have more trouble with white people!”: Exploring racial microaggressions between West African immigrants and African Americans","authors":"Ayo Dapherede Otusanya, Gina Castle Bell","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2018.1468808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2018.1468808","url":null,"abstract":"Racial tensions continue in 21st-century United States through the communication of racial microaggressions. We are interested in the communication of racial microaggressions directed towards West African immigrants by people with whom they expected to be allied, African Americans. Sixteen people who identified as West African immigrants were interviewed about communication struggles with African Americans in this qualitative, interpretive analysis. Owen’s thematic analysis was employed to analyze interview data. Results suggest the communicative impact of racial microaggressions on recipients is far-reaching and consequential. Narratives illustrate microaggressive communication occurs daily through invalidating, dismissive lines of questioning as well as targeted name calling and pejorative dialogue.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128076630","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}
{"title":"Network member support marshaling in response to another’s relational transgression experience","authors":"Meara H. Faw, Joshua R. Pederson","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2018.1558274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2018.1558274","url":null,"abstract":"Relational transgressions are emotionally difficult for those who directly experience the transgression. Less is known about how transgressions affect those located within the personal network of a relational transgression victim. This study explored how network members engaged in support marshaling in response to another’s transgression experience. Results indicate that some participants marshaled support, citing four reasons for their actions: perceived insufficiency, camaraderie, personal ramifications, and personal values. We explore these reasons for marshaling support and discuss them within the broader context of support marshaling and relational transgressions.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125355905","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}