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This study examined the extent to which persons\u27 perceptions of control predicted their use of... more This study examined the extent to which persons\u27 perceptions of control predicted their use of different types of supportive message strategies. Specifically, perceptions of control were measured in two ways: (1) as supporters\u27 perceptions of the controllability of distressing situations involving friends and (2) as the individual differences in supporters\u27 control orientations. It was hypothesized that persons with internal control orientations and who perceived the distressing situation as high in controllability would use more message strategies directed towards the provision of instrumental social support. Likewise, it was hypothesized that persons with external control orientations and who perceived the distressing situation as low in controllability would use more message strategies directed towards the provision of emotional social support. Results from the use of Hierarchical Multiple Regression procedures indicated that persons\u27 internal control orientation scores predicted their use of advice-giving supportive message strategies. However, no additional hypotheses were confirmed. Limitations of the research are discussed along with implications for future research

Southern Communication Journal, 2011

An obituary for Brant R. Burleson, Professor of Communication at Purdue University is presented.

Journal of Family Communication, 2002

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Semi-structured interviews with 25 adoptive parents about challenging conversations with their ad... more Semi-structured interviews with 25 adoptive parents about challenging conversations with their adoptive children revealed the issues they faced and communicative strategies they found effective in addressing these issues. Thematic analysis of verbatim transcripts uncovered ten ...

The current study explores how academic success is defined and perceived by student-athletes and ... more The current study explores how academic success is defined and perceived by student-athletes and athletic academic support staff professionals, specifically learning specialists and academic advisors. Using qualitative methods, one-on-one interviews were conducted with participants from six “Power 5” programs to establish overarching themes. Academic advisors identified academic achievement and personal development as academic success. Learning specialists identified academic success as maximizing individual potential. Student-athletes identified meeting grade-based standards and work ethic resulting in reaching personal goals as academic success for themselves. Student-athletes also perceived that their advisor would identify eligibility and effort as academic success, and that their learning specialist would view academic success as building academic skills and work ethic.

Encyclopedia of Gender in Media, 2012

The Journal of American Culture

Family members are our first role models, playmates, accomplices, confidants, and sometimes adver... more Family members are our first role models, playmates, accomplices, confidants, and sometimes adversaries. Family members share roles, norms, rules, histories, and conflicts. Family interaction fulfills many purposes or goals-some individual and some shared among members. Mutually, the members may experience each other's own personal challenges and defeats, tragedies, and joys. Family members co-construct a shared perceived identity implicitly understood. This identity can be observed in what the family collects. Belk (317) states that collections are comprised of possessions-either ideas or objects, which "may have utilitarian or aesthetic appeals, they must have additional significance to the collector."

Electronic Communication Law Review, 2002

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Cultural diversity is becoming increasingly more important in the workplace. This is particularly... more Cultural diversity is becoming increasingly more important in the workplace. This is particularly true in health care organizations facing demographic shifts in the patients served and their families. This study serves to aid the development of intercultural communication training programs for health care providers by examining how cultural sensitivity and effective intercultural communication, besides helping patients, personally benefit health care providers by reducing their stress. Effective intercultural communication and cultural sensitivity were found to be related. Health care providers' levels of intercultural anxiety also were found to correlate with effective intercultural communication.

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