{"title":"Support features, psychological reactance, and support outcomes: evaluating social network support for friends and daters","authors":"K. S. Brisini, N. Wang","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2281678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2281678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245013","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":"Increasing career confidence of emerging adults: assessing the influence of vocational anticipatory socialization and work ethics","authors":"Melinda R. Aley, K. Levine","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2249071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2249071","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During an emerging adult’s career decision-making and development, the work ethic is defined as an individual’s commitment to valuing work and believing that doing a good job requires hard work, is thought to positively influence career confidence. However, researchers do not fully understand how work ethics develop and impact career confidence. The current study examined associations between the sources of vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) and the dimensions of work ethics on career confidence. Results show both positive (i.e. part-time jobs, traditional media) and negative (i.e. schools) associations between VAS sources and work ethics. Career confidence was shown to be positively associated with both VAS sources and work ethics.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"610 - 629"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47830828","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}
Muheng Yu, Michael C. Carter, Drew P. Cingel, Jeanette B. Ruiz
{"title":"A content analysis of aggression in Netflix original, adolescent-directed series’ subtitles","authors":"Muheng Yu, Michael C. Carter, Drew P. Cingel, Jeanette B. Ruiz","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2249056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2249056","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Given the risk for aggression in the media to potentially influence adolescents’ cognitions and behaviors related to aggression, we performed a content analysis to examine the different types of aggression referenced in all subtitles of all episodes of eight Netflix original, adolescent-directed series (as of the end of 2019). Across all series, there was higher number of references to physical aggression and verbal insult, but fewer references to rumor spreading. Also, the most frequently appearing aggression term was “kill,” suggesting lethal physical aggression was commonly referenced. For individual series, different series had different patterns of aggression references. These findings provide an overview on the different types of aggression referenced in Netflix original, adolescent-directed series and suggest adolescents may be affected differently upon exposure to different patterns of aggression references in these series.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"588 - 609"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45560879","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":"Relationship of media usage to attitudes toward police","authors":"Jack Glascock","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2239314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2239314","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study examined the contribution of exposure to entertainment and news media to attitudes toward police. Using a survey of young adults (N = 321), various media repertoires as well as other contributory variables, such as race and political affiliation, were regressed on theoretically derived attitudes toward police. Significant major predictor variables included race (African Americans), political point of view (liberal) and liberal media news outlets such as CNN and news satire shows (“The Daily Show”), all significantly associated with negative attitudes toward police. More positive associations were found for exposure to mainstream local and national TV news outlets. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"568 - 587"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43580893","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":"Parents’ Nonaccommodation and Sexual Minorities’ Topic Avoidance and Surface Acting as Mediators of Family Communication Patterns and Shared Family Identity","authors":"Paul Schrodt, Haley Decker","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2237085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2237085","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study tested parents’ nonaccommodation of their young adult child’s sexual identity and the child’s topic avoidance and surface acting as mediators of family communication patterns (FCPs, i.e., conversation and conformity orientations) and shared family identity (SFI). Participants included 205 sexual minorities who reported on their parents’ nonaccommodation in conversations about LGBTQ+ issues. Both FCP orientations were indirectly associated with SFI with each parent through different explanatory pathways. Notably, conformity orientation was indirectly associated with SFI with father through mother’s nonaccommodation to topic avoidance with mother. Conversely, it was indirectly associated with SFI with mother through father’s nonaccommodation to topic avoidance with father. The results extend FCP theory by illuminating a relational dynamic among identity-divergent family members that may create (un)healthy alliances within families.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"543 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44358585","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":"Does outgroup media exposure reduce prejudice in real life? Testing mediated contact effects with media diets in South Africa","authors":"David Schieferdecker, J. Harwood","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2232839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2232839","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mediated intergroup contact can reduce recipients’ prejudice. However, prior studies have mainly examined the effects of carefully selected stimuli, contents, and genres. We investigated whether outgroup exposure on the level of real-life, multi-channel media diets is associated with reduced prejudice. Prior scholarship offers contradictory expectations: We tested this with survey data from South Africa where the numeric group constellation and the media system should make blatant stereotyping in traditional media less likely. While social media interactions were associated with more positive attitudes, effects in traditional media varied across the type of medium and sample. This suggests that it will be difficult to associate a person’s general media usage with their prejudice. We discuss the challenges for future tests of the real-life potential of mediated intergroup contact. Altogether, our study dampens initial hopes and underlines the importance of targeted interventions and outstanding single contents.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"523 - 542"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42987071","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":"Initial report of the Argumentativeness Index of Behavioral Indicators for measuring trait argumentativeness","authors":"Charles J. Wigley, Andrew S. Rancer, Yangjing Lin","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2228864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2228864","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Infante and Rancer’s (1982) Argumentativeness Scale has withstood the test of time, but questions remain among some scholars as to specific scale items and how those items might affect structural and predictive validity. Infante and his colleagues have always called upon others constructively to improve on the measurement of trait argumentativeness. This investigation answers that call by developing a new measure, the Argumentativeness Index of Behavioral Indicators, that dramatically differs in structure and method of measurement from the Argumentativeness Scale. This new scale uses an alternative to Likert items. Items were designed to reflect a tendency toward specific behaviors rather than attitudes. Argumentativeness Index of Behavioral Indicators is a scalar alternative to the Argumentativeness Scale, but not necessarily a replacement. The goal of the present investigation was not to change the Argumentativeness Scale as an operational definition of argumentativeness but, rather, to provide an alternative operational definition of trait argumentativeness.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"483 - 498"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43427820","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":"Antecedents and consequences of interpersonal electronic surveillance in romantic relationships","authors":"Lindsey S. Aloia","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2228860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2228860","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The proliferation of communication technologies and the growth of social networking sites provide new avenues for electronic surveillance of romantic relationship partners. This study evaluated attachment dimensions and romantic jealousy as complementary explanations for interpersonal electronic surveillance in romantic relationships. In addition, this study investigated the moderating effect of dyadic trust on the link between interpersonal electronic surveillance and relationship satisfaction. Three hundred and twenty-one individuals currently involved in romantic relationships with active social media accounts completed measures assessing attachment anxiety and avoidance; cognitive and emotional jealousy; interpersonal electronic surveillance; dyadic trust; and relationship satisfaction. Results indicated partial support for a statistical model in which jealousy mediated the associations between attachment and interpersonal electronic surveillance. In addition, findings supported the moderating role of dyadic trust on the association between interpersonal electronic surveillance and relationship satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"436 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46437164","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}
Brittney S. Morrissey, Julie Sisler, Anthony T. Machette
{"title":"Questioning conceptualizations of openness in family sex communication: Exploring associations between family communication patterns and family sex communication quotient","authors":"Brittney S. Morrissey, Julie Sisler, Anthony T. Machette","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2228862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2228862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Family communication patterns theory (FCPT) and family sex communication research herald openness. However, scholars have begun to question whether openness operates differently when considering the difficult nature of sex talk in families. Therefore, regression analyses were conducted to better ascertain the role of openness amongst young adults’ reports of family communication patterns and reports of family sex talk from the Family Sex Communication Quotient (FSCQ). Analysis revealed conformity orientation to be a greater predictor of family sex talk via the FSCQ, negatively predicting young adults’ reports of the comfort and information dimensions, which conceptually measure openness. However, conversation orientation did not significantly predict either dimension associated with openness, instead negatively predicting the value dimension of the FSCQ, which measures the perceived importance of the family to discuss sex and related topics. No significant interaction effects of family communication patterns were found, yet gender did appear as a constraining factor on the meaning of openness measured. Results signify that openness is operationalized within family sex communication differentially from FCPT, particularly conversation orientation. Implications and directions for future research on family sex communication conclude the paper.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"457 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42947504","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":"Understanding parents’ sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use through the lens of relational dialectics theory 2.0","authors":"Aimee E. Miller-Ott, L. Kelly, Samantha Schultz","doi":"10.1080/01463373.2023.2228868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2228868","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the development of social media, parents must figure out how to guide their children’s use or even whether to allow it. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 parents of daughters aged 12–18. Relational dialectics theory 2.0 was used to analyze how parents’ talk revealed their sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use. Analysis revealed that parents voiced competing discourses pertaining to “bad” versus “good” parents and monitoring versus trusting daughters. Discourses that take place at the distal level compete with those at the proximal site of the utterance chain, challenging parents to engage in sense-making. Findings suggest that the advice of open communication between parent and adolescent addresses only the proximal level and not the distal level of societal expectations for monitoring and close involvement required of the “good parent.” To make sense of and manage competing discourses, parents appear to couple conversations with daughters with voicing discourses of daughter uniqueness as a way to favor trusting over monitoring and still maintain a “good” parent identity.","PeriodicalId":51521,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY","volume":"71 1","pages":"499 - 522"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48651124","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}