Jayson L. Dibble, Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter, M. Drouin
{"title":"Communicating with back burners among college students according to relationship status and love styles","authors":"Jayson L. Dibble, Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter, M. Drouin","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2023.2165487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2023.2165487","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Back burner relationships are prospective sexual/romantic partners that individuals communicate with for purposes of developing a sexual and/or romantic relationship. This study analyzed 762 college students with regard to sex, relationship status, love styles, and numbers of back burners. Men reported more back burners with whom they sometimes communicated in a romantic/sexual way than did women, and singles and casual daters averaged more of these back burners than did those in committed relationships. Numbers of back burners with whom participants communicated with in a strictly platonic way did not differ by sex or relationship status. Having a more ludic love style corresponded to having more total back burners, while increased storge corresponded to fewer romantic/sexual back burners. Sex and/or relationship status may matter less to the wholesale practice of maintaining back burners and more to the nature of the communication with one’s back burners.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"30 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48270826","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":"Helicopter parenting graduate students: Key individual and family characteristics","authors":"Elizabeth A. Munz","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2147498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2147498","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With a sample of graduate students (N = 367), the current study explores graduate student and family demographic variables that are associated with maternal and paternal helicopter parenting. Gender, only child status, international student status, and percentage of parental financial support had large or medium effects or associations with helicopter parenting and combined to predict 41% of the variance in maternal helicopter parenting and 50% of the variance in paternal helicopter parenting. Implications for scholars and higher education administrators are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"40 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42214670","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":"Transcriptomic analysis of the innate immune signatures of a SARS-CoV-2 protein subunit vaccine ZF2001 and an mRNA vaccine RRV.","authors":"Qian Wang, Ziyang Song, Jinghuan Yang, Qian He, Qunying Mao, Yu Bai, Jianyang Liu, Chaoqiang An, Xujia Yan, Bopei Cui, Lifang Song, Dong Liu, Miao Xu, Zhenglun Liang","doi":"10.1080/22221751.2022.2059404","DOIUrl":"10.1080/22221751.2022.2059404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysis of large-scale gene expression post vaccination can provide an overview of immune responses. We used transcriptional approaches to comprehensively analyze the innate immune response signatures elicited by protein subunit (PS) vaccine ZF2001 and an mRNA vaccine named RRV. A fine-grained time-dependent dissection of large-scale gene expression post immunization revealed that ZF001 induced MHC class II-related genes, including <i>cd74</i> and <i>H2-Aa</i>, more expeditiously than the RRV. Notably, the RRV induced MHC class I-related genes such as <i>Tap1</i>/<i>2</i>, <i>B2m,</i> and <i>H2-D1</i>/<i>K1</i>. At day 21 post immunization, the titres of binding and neutralization antibody (NAb) induced by both vaccines were comparable, which were accordant with the expression level of genes essential to BCR/TCR signalling transduction and B/T cells activation at day 7. However, compared to ZF2001, the early responses of RRV were more robust, including the activation of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), expression of genes involved in RNA degradation, and transcription inhibition, which are directly related to anti-viral signals. This pattern also coincided with the induction of cytokines by the RRV. Generally, the transcriptomic patterns of two very different vaccines mapped here provide a framework for establishing correlates between the induction of genes and protection, which can be tailored for evoking specific and potent immune responses against SARS-CoV-2.</p>","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":"1145-1153"},"PeriodicalIF":13.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9037177/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81990537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca N. Pool, Agassy B. Rodriguez, Gregory A. Cranmer, Patrick J. Rosopa, Zachory J. Muñiz, David O. Schaedel
{"title":"Beyond the classroom: a comparative examination of parental and peer support on students’ socialization","authors":"Rebecca N. Pool, Agassy B. Rodriguez, Gregory A. Cranmer, Patrick J. Rosopa, Zachory J. Muñiz, David O. Schaedel","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2147497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2147497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The first year of college is challenging for students as they learn to navigate new surroundings away from their established social support systems. This study examined the adjustment of first-year students through the lens of socialization resources theory (SRT). According to SRT, adaption to novel environments is partly due to social support. Although researchers have examined the importance of parental and peer support for students independently, comparative understanding of these two sources of support is limited. Within the framework of SRT, we collected data from 237 first-semester students to assess the effects of parental and peer support on students’ adjustment to college (i.e., intention to persist, stress, social adjustment, institutional attachment, grade point average). Our findings highlight the benefits and limitations of specific sources of support for students’ socialization, such as lower stress levels attributed to parental financial support and increased institutional attachment resulting from peer motivational support.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"266 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43694449","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}
Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, Kathleen E. Smith, Megan E. Moore
{"title":"Reducing psychological reactance to bystander intervention messages: comparing preemptive and postscript mitigation strategies","authors":"Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, Kathleen E. Smith, Megan E. Moore","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2130227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2130227","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study compared the effectiveness of two approaches for diminishing psychological reactance in the context of bystander intervention: preemptive and postscript mitigation. Undergraduates (N = 598) completed an online survey experiment. Participants viewed a message promoting bystander intervention and were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: preemptive script, restoration postscript, or a message-only control (no pre/postscript). Consistent with past work, no differences were observed in the effectiveness of the preemptive and postscript mitigation techniques vis-à-vis reactance and behavioral intention. The use of a reactance mitigation strategy (preemptive or postscript) resulted in greater behavioral intention relative to a control message. However, post hoc analyses revealed this effect occurred among women, but not men. Counter to expectations, the use of preemptive and postscript strategies did not reduce reactance relative to a control message.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"259 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42611314","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":"Real-time responses to stories: linking valence shifts to post-exposure emotional flow and transportation","authors":"Julia R. Winkler, C. Mengelkamp, Markus Appel","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2119380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2119380","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Narrative experiences are characterized by dynamic emotional responses. Research has begun to investigate implications of emotional shifts for narrative processing, but the continuous measurement of emotion poses a challenge. This study examines how valence shifts captured using real-time response (RTR) measurement during two films relate to transportation and post-exposure self-reported emotional flow. Across both films, valence shifts (in terms of the mean intra-individual standard deviation of RTR valence) were positively correlated with transportation and self-reported emotional flow. Valence shifts and self-reported emotional flow were higher among women than men. We discuss the use of RTR measurement for the assessment of emotional shifts during narrative processes.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"237 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59941377","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}
A. Denes, Talea Cornelius, C. Guest, Katrina T. Webber, A. Gorin
{"title":"Sexuality and mental health during the pandemic: Associations among couples’ COVID-19 anxiety, sexual communication, and sexual satisfaction","authors":"A. Denes, Talea Cornelius, C. Guest, Katrina T. Webber, A. Gorin","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2120862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2120862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study explored the associations among COVID-19 anxiety, sexual communication, and sexual satisfaction in couples cohabitating together during the pandemic lockdown. Forty-one couples living in three major cities in the United States completed a survey during the early months of the pandemic. Multilevel modeling revealed that individuals’ sexual communication was associated with their own, but not their partner’s, reported sexual satisfaction. However, COVID-related anxiety was not indirectly associated with sexual satisfaction through sexual communication nor did it moderate the association between sexual communication and sexual satisfaction. These findings reveal that the well-established link between sexual communication and sexual satisfaction remained during the pandemic and that anxieties related to the pandemic did not impact this association.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"248 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41996864","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":"Shared family identity as a moderator of emerging adult sibling relationship maintenance and relational quality","authors":"S. Myers","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2115475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2115475","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of shared family identity on the association between emerging adult sibling use of the positivity, openness, assurances, networks, and tasks relationship maintenance behaviors and perceived relational quality. Participants were 132 undergraduate students enrolled in a variety of undergraduate communication courses at a large Mid-Atlantic university. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression analyses, it was found that shared family identity moderated the association between emerging adult sibling use of the openness relationship maintenance behavior and perceived relational quality but failed to moderate the association between emerging adult sibling use of the positivity, assurances, networks, and tasks behaviors and perceived relational quality. Future researchers should examine the influence of parental treatment on children as a way to further explore the relationship between sibling use of relationship maintenance behaviors and relational outcomes.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"203 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44282911","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 to get on top – the effect of rationality and incivility of user comments on their visibility in political online discussions on Facebook","authors":"Pablo Jost, Marc Ziegele","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2120861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2120861","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research on user comments has found that incivility in online discussions affect readers’ attitudes, feelings, and their willingness to participate in discussions. Yet the extent to which users encounter these comments in their daily routine is largely unknown. On social network sites, the number of interactions with comments, particularly the Likes and replies they receive, determines their visibility and, therefore, their potential impact on users. The study argues that the presence of rationality, personal incivility, and anti-democratic incivility in comments is related to the number of interactions that comments receive. The results of a content analysis of 2,241 comments below 499 news posts on Facebook largely support this assumption, revealing a positive association between comment rationality and the number of interactions, but also between personal incivility and interactions. Anti-democratic incivility is positively associated only with the number of replies to a comment but not with the number of Likes.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"224 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46375136","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":"On the norm sensitivity of younger mobile phone users: Perceived social norms and phubbing in interactions between younger and older generations","authors":"Liska Winkelmann, Sarah Geber","doi":"10.1080/08824096.2022.2115476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2022.2115476","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Younger and older mobile phone users differ in their tolerance of phubbing, that is, using one’s phone in face-to-face interactions. Yet, there is limited knowledge of how phubbing norms influence phone use in intergenerational interactions. We conducted an online survey among younger (aged ≤ 41; n = 105) and older adults (n = 104), compared their generation-specific normative perceptions, and analyzed how these perceived norms were correlated with intergenerational phubbing. The results suggest a particular norm sensitivity of younger phone users, meaning that they not only had generation-specific normative perceptions, but that they also adapted their phone use to the older generation’s phubbing norms in interactions with them.","PeriodicalId":47084,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research Reports","volume":"39 1","pages":"214 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44192527","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}