Roi Estlein, Jennifer Theiss, Hannah Jones, Deborah Yoon, Kirsten Weber
{"title":"Facilitation and Interference from Partners During the Transition to Parenthood: A Co-Occurrence Analysis of Themes Emerging Over Time within and Between Romantic Partners","authors":"Roi Estlein, Jennifer Theiss, Hannah Jones, Deborah Yoon, Kirsten Weber","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2024.2337379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2337379","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on foundational assumptions of relational turbulence theory, this study identified the ways romantic partners facilitate or interfere with individual goals and routines during the transitio...","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140575033","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":"Editor Introduction","authors":"Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2024.2321659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2321659","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Family Communication (Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140149425","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":"“We’ve Had to Relearn All of Our Family Dynamics”: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making of Bereavement Following Terminal Illness in U.S. Families","authors":"Cassidy R. Taladay-Carter, Jody Koenig Kellas","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2024.2325951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2325951","url":null,"abstract":"A family member’s death from terminal illness can impact the entire family in profound ways. Surviving family members must make sense of their bereavement, though few are offered spaces to tell the...","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140116909","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":"Secret-Keeping Tactics Central to Sexual Identity Concealment from Family Members","authors":"Katie Kassler","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2024.2319685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2319685","url":null,"abstract":"Keeping one’s sexual identity a secret long-term from family members may be particularly risky due to the involuntary, indefinite, and interdependent treatment of many family relationships in the U...","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139920580","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":"Re-Negotiating Self-Identity: Exploring the Role of Motherhood-Indicative Labels in Nigerian Constructing mother’s Identity","authors":"Ifeoluwatobi A. Odunsi, Angela M. Hosek","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2024.2319126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2319126","url":null,"abstract":"Motherhood identities are affected by the life altering experience of childbirth. First-time mothers in Nigeria often experience an identity shift when close relatives consistently refer to them by...","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"07 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910033","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 Appropriateness as a Topic Avoidance Motivation: The Influence of Familial and Social Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Helen M. Lillie, Manusheela Pokharel","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2024.2315465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2315465","url":null,"abstract":"A key motivation underlying topic avoidance is the belief that talk would be inappropriate. The current research teases apart the sources of this belief by testing family communication patterns (FC...","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759700","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":"Religious Conversations and Surface Acting as Predictors of Relational Uncertainty in (Dis)confirming Sibling Relationships","authors":"Crosby G. Cobb, Paul Schrodt","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2024.2313219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2024.2313219","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the associations among frequency and comfort of siblings’ religious conversations and their relational uncertainty (RU), as well as the degree to which the associations depended...","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759698","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}
Chelsea E. Moss, Taylor S. Vasquez, Carla L. Fisher, Larry F. Forthun
{"title":"“Make Your Family Proud”: Analyzing the Communication of Roles and Identity in Disney’s <i>Encanto</i>","authors":"Chelsea E. Moss, Taylor S. Vasquez, Carla L. Fisher, Larry F. Forthun","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2266479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2266479","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn this study, we analyzed Disney’s Encanto through the lens of identity theory using qualitative content analysis to examine how family roles and identity were communicatively constructed. Results uncovered four themes regarding the Madrigal family’s role enactment (role confirmation, role disconfirmation, conformity to family identity, and identity salience of family roles). Findings capture the mutually influential, fluctuating nature of enacting roles and identity in a family system while highlighting the importance of appreciating intergenerational dynamics, as illustrated by the Madrigals. The analysis exemplifies how media portrayals can inform societal expectations about family roles and empowers audiences to think critically about those experiences within their own families. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. For example, as Pepa had the power to control the weather, she had the duty and responsibility of properly controlling it to best serve the family and community, thus establishing her role. For family members without gifts (i.e., Augustín, Félix, and Mirabel), role fulfillment was understood as enacting traits and actions that best served the family. For example, Abuela indicates that Mirabel’s proper role is to stay out of the way and let family members with gifts do the heavy lifting when she says, “So, the best way for some of us to help is to step aside, let the rest of the family do what they do best. Okay?” (12:12)2. Certain sentences repeated in songs were not repeatedly counted in reported numbers (e.g., “We don’t talk about Bruno” was only coded once for the song). As these sentences were lyrics and were designed to fit a musical cadence, recording them individually would not have enhanced the analysis.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094103","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":"Walking the Tightrope: Communicative Tensions in Disenfranchised Grief Among Families Managing Substance Use Disorder","authors":"DeAnne Priddis, Emily M. Cramer","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2248104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2248104","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study investigates the communicative tensions inherent to the experience of disenfranchised grief among family members of individuals with substance use disorder (SUD). In the context of a family member with SUD, 98 adult-affected family members (AFMs) described their struggles with disenfranchised grief, a form of grief characterized by deprivation of support or recognition from others. The results of a deductive, qualitative analysis guided by relational dialectics theory (RDT; Baxter & Montgomery, 1996) indicated that AFMs traverse the dialectical poles of integration-separation, stability-change, and expression-non-expression both within the relationship (internally) and with those “on the outside” (externally). Additionally, AFMs grappled with a tension cited in previous work examining contradictions among spouses managing adult dementia: presence-absence (Baxter etal., 2002). The findings (a) illuminate the disenfranchised grief experienced by AFMs, (b) unpack the interactional implications of this unique form of suffering by situating disenfranchised grief as a communicative phenomenon, and (c) call for increased social and clinical support for AFMs experiencing disenfranchised grief. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingFunding received from Middle Tennessee State University Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award 17-17-1007","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"424 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135877115","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":"Introduction to the Special Issue on Communication in Black Families","authors":"Darvelle Hutchins, L. Nelson","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2023.2243911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2023.2243911","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue is comprised of six peer-reviewed, empirical articles focused on communication and socialization in Black families. These articles collectively explore how Black families: (a) navigate experiences of police brutality, (b) manage grief after loss, (c) engage in racial, gender, and sexual socialization of children, and (d) make sense of Black motherhood. Each article is theoretically driven and methodologically robust, offering important advancements in research on communication in Black families. In this introduction, we preview and elucidate each article’s theoretical underpinnings, main findings, and overall richness as it pertains to this special issue. We then discuss collective implications stemming from this body of work. Next, we offer positionality statements that trace the genesis of this special issue on Black families. Last, we share concluding thoughts on why representation matters and reiterate our shared responsibility as scholars to include diverse others.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41456341","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}