Elizabeth Dorrance-Hall, N. Campbell, M. Carlisle, Emily Lance, Mengyan Ma, Kristina M. Scharp
{"title":"Development and Validation of a Family Member Marginalization Measure (FM3): Difference, Disapproval, and Exclusion Dimensions","authors":"Elizabeth Dorrance-Hall, N. Campbell, M. Carlisle, Emily Lance, Mengyan Ma, Kristina M. Scharp","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2142917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2142917","url":null,"abstract":"Despite burgeoning research about family distancing, researchers have yet to operationalize any family distancing construct. This paper describes the development and validation of a new measure operationalizing three components of family member marginalization (i.e., difference, disapproval, and exclusion). We evaluated the Family Member Marginalization Measure (FM3) using data from college students (Study 1; N = 191) and self-identified marginalized family members (Study 2; N = 285). Confirmatory factor analyses verified the three dimensions of perceived family member marginalization and the 39-item FM3 proved both reliable and valid. Potential applications of the scale and avenues for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"87 1","pages":"509 - 534"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43135333","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":"Examining the Dimensions of Malleable Racial Identification","authors":"Megan E. Cardwell","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2153615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2153615","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the essentialist construction of race in the U.S. as discrete immutable categories, Multiethnic-racial (ME-R) persons, those with parents from two different ethnic-racial backgrounds, find themselves navigating many monoethnic-racial norms. When faced with these norms they must choose how they will express their ethnic-racial identities to others. One way they may shift their identity is through malleable racial identification, the act of aligning with different racial identities across different social situations. The purpose of this study is to examine malleable racial identification strategies, including cognitive, communicative, and labeling strategies, through participant voice. One hundred twenty-three ME-R individuals shared their malleable racial identification experiences and results suggest that ME-R individuals experience different feelings, as well as employ several communication patterns and identification strategies, in order to navigate feeling forced into monoethnic-racial spaces.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"87 1","pages":"411 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44562639","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":"Inoculation Theory as Rhetorical Strategy in The Evidence at Large (1805)","authors":"J. Compton","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2153616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2153616","url":null,"abstract":"The Evidence at Large, published in 1805, is a publication of transcripts of testimony offered before Parliament regarding Edward Jenner’s role and legal rights in developing vaccination protocol, with a preface penned by Rev. G. C. Jenner—Edward Jenner’s nephew. This current project engages in a rhetorical analysis of Jenner’s preface, using inoculation theory as an interpretative framework. Key features of inoculation theory are revealed in Jenner’s rhetoric, including threat and refutational preemption. Additionally, this analysis reveals un- and underexplored processes of resistance to influence, including source derogation, attitude confidence, and affect-based resistance that should be explored in future research.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"87 1","pages":"668 - 680"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46739937","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":"Whiteness and Neoliberal Diversity: The (Re)production of Ideology through College Students’ Diversity Discourse","authors":"Drew T. Ashby-King","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2146463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2146463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47189501","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}
Aulola Amacher, Michael K. Ault, Bobbi J. Van Gilder
{"title":"Surviving in Higher Education: How Communication Influences Tongan Students’ Assimilation in Higher Education Institutions","authors":"Aulola Amacher, Michael K. Ault, Bobbi J. Van Gilder","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2155069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2155069","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the number of American students achieving bachelor’s degrees soaring, the gap between the most and least successful ethnic groups is becoming more pronounced. Among the lowest achieving groups are Tongan-Americans. This study uses Kramer’s (2011) multilevel model of volunteer assimilation as a theoretical framework to investigate how multiple and overlapping group memberships influence Tongan-American students as they progress from organizational entry to metamorphosis, or premature exit. The findings of this constant comparative analysis suggest that Tongan-American students’ multiple memberships are both complementary, increasing the likelihood of degree achievement, and contradictory, decreasing the likelihood of degree achievement. These complementary and competing memberships affect students’ achievement of full membership in institutions of higher education. Implications for universities seeking to assist Tongan-American students, parents of Tongan-American students, and for Tongan-American students are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"87 1","pages":"835 - 856"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44503486","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":"Self-Esteem as a Moderator of the Message Congeniality Effect","authors":"Christopher J. Carpenter, B. McEwan","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2147403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2147403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44775170","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":"Integrative Complexity, COVID-19, and Political Ideology","authors":"Hayley McCullough","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2146464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2146464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48848083","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":"“Sister Spirit”: A Case Study on Feminist Religious Organizing","authors":"J. Pauly","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2146465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2146465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48445330","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":"How the Media Promotes Security and Affects Stigma: The Cases of Ultra-Orthodox “Haredi” Jews and Palestinian-Israelis during the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Baruch Shomron","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2135384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2135384","url":null,"abstract":"Media can play a crucial role in enabling vital capabilities during a health emergency such as the Covid-19 pandemic. While capabilities are essential to everyone, they are especially vital to marginalized populations. Therefore, this study examined how two prominent minority groups in Israel: ultra-Orthodox Jews and Palestinian-Israelis, were portrayed in the Israeli news media during the Covid-19 pandemic. Findings revealed that the news media typically contributed to security by rendering the audience aware of risks, threats, and behaviors endangering public safety, and that the media habitually lowered potential stigma by contextualizing and explaining incidents, highlighting minority contributions, and portraying complex depictions.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"87 1","pages":"535 - 555"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46167931","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":"Military Family Socialization: An Examination of New U.S. Military Families in Online Forums","authors":"Erin C. Wehrman","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2146459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2146459","url":null,"abstract":"Adapting to military life can be a challenging transition for new members. Although scholarship has identified socialization processes for individuals, limited literature exists about family adaptation experiences. This study sought to understand how U.S. military family members communicated in online forums about their experiences of entering the military. Using grounded theory to analyze 1,527 pages of discussion boards, this study found that posters experienced a distinct process of socializing to military life wherein individuals navigated clashing trajectories between civilian and military expectations. Findings expand understandings of socialization and offer suggestions for helping families adjust to the armed services.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"87 1","pages":"727 - 750"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48062411","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}