Rachel M Mclaren
Biographic Data
| ID | 114886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel M Mclaren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclaren |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAREN R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Study of Relational Turbulence Theory in Families: Reflections on the Past and Visions for the Future
Applying Confirmation Theory to Parent-Adolescent Conversations About Self-Disappointments: Parental Acceptance and Challenge Promote Teens’ Emotion Regulation
Parent and adolescent conversations about hurt: How interaction patterns predict empathic accuracy and perceived understanding
Although hurt feelings might be inevitable in parent–adolescent relationships, follow-up conversations provide an opportunity for reconciliation and learning. This research considers how interaction patterns affect empathic accuracy and perceived understanding by examining the conversations of 98 parent–adolescent dyads regarding an event when adolescents felt hurt by something their parent said or did. Analysis of the interactions revealed three…
Uncertainty issues and management in adult children's stories of their estrangement with their parents
Framed in the uncertainty literature, the present study explores the uncertainty issues and management practices of adult children who are in the estrangement process with their parents. Results from 52 narrative interviews reveal six types of uncertainty and six management processes. Taken together, results suggest that the estrangement process is marked by chronic uncertainty that can serve multiple functions. Theoretical implications and pract…
Indirect effects of supportive communication during conversations about coping with relational transgressions
Researchers investigating relational transgressions have minimally explored the role of third‐party personal network members in the coping process. It is argued that supportive messages during conversations about coping with relational transgressions are associated with transgressed individuals' perceived stress and feelings about the transgression. Results from a study involving conversations between 50 pairs of personal network members suggest …
Relational Turbulence Theory: Explaining Variation in Subjective Experiences and Communication Within Romantic Relationships
This essay extends the relational turbulence model as a framework for understanding communication in romantic relationships. Following the relational turbulence model, relational turbulence theory identifies relational uncertainty and interdependence as parameters that shape subjective experiences, but the theory clarifies the theoretical processes underlying their distinctive effects. In addition, relational turbulence theory articulates causal …
Managing information following hurtful experiences: How personal network members negotiate private information
The present study explores how personal network members manage information related to hurtful experiences. The study uses communication privacy management (CPM) theory as the theoretical framework for a theme analysis of responses of disclosers of hurtful experiences and confidants regarding how they manage information related to a hurtful experience. Results of the thematic analysis provide insight into the process by which people disclose a hur…
Relational Communication and Understanding in Conversations About Hurtful Events Between Parents and Adolescents: Relational Communication and Understanding
This article examines how the severity of a hurtful event and discrepancies in perceptions of relational communication affect perceived understanding and empathic accuracy (EA) in parent–adolescent discussions about a hurtful event in their relationship. Results from a dyadic interaction study showed that the severity of the hurtful event was negatively associated with perceived understanding. Furthermore, discrepancies in perceptions of disaffil…
Hurtful Episodes in Parent–Adolescent Relationships: How Accounts and Attributions Contribute to the Difficulty of Talking about Hurt
This research examines sense-making about hurtful episodes between parents and adolescents and how sense-making processes relate to subsequent communication. Results highlight differences in the events parents and adolescents find hurtful and the complex forces that influence accounts for hurtful episodes. Children were less affected overall by hurtful episodes and provided more benevolent accounts of parents' hurtful actions and words. Parents d…
Victim and Perpetrator Accounts of Hurtful Messages: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model
This study examined how message characteristics and relational turbulence correspond with victim and perpetrator experiences of hurtful messages. Romantic partners described 2 events: one where each of them was a victim of the partner's hurtful message. Trained judges evaluated qualities of hurtful messages and participants reported relationship qualities, intensity of hurt experienced as a victim, and the partner's hurt feelings when the respond…
The Effect of Relationship Characteristics and Relational Communication on Experiences of Hurt From Romantic Partners: Relationship Characteristics & Hurt
This study expands the relational turbulence model (RTM; Solomon & Knobloch,) by theorizing about how characteristics of relationships and relational judgments influence people's experiences of hurtful messages. Previous applications of RTM to hurt have uncovered associations among relational characteristics that influence people's hurtful experiences; however, the process by which these characteristics influence experiences of hurt remains uncle…
Emotions, communicative responses, and relational consequences of boundary turbulence
Guided by communication privacy management theory and appraisal theories of emotion this study examined how emotions (hurt, anger, and fear) and communicative responses (approach and withdrawal strategies) to boundary turbulence correspond with relational outcomes. A community sample of individuals ( N = 273) reported on instances when another person mishandled their private information. Results showed that hurt, anger, fear, distancing, and a co…
Explaining Variation in Contemporaneous Responses to Hurt in Premarital Romantic Relationships: A Relational Turbulence Model Perspective
The authors use the relational turbulence model to derive hypotheses linking characteristics of relationships and reactions to hypothetical hurtful messages from a romantic relationship partner. It was hypothesized that relational uncertainty and perceptions of goal interference and facilitation from a partner predict perceptions of relational turbulence, which in turn predicts the intensity of hurt feelings, negative emotions, and the perceived …
Relational Turbulence Theory: Explaining Variation in Subjective Experiences and Communication Within Romantic Relationships
This essay extends the relational turbulence model as a framework for understanding communication in romantic relationships. Following the relational turbulence model, relational turbulence theory identifies relational uncertainty and interdependence as parameters that shape subjective experiences, but the theory clarifies the theoretical processes underlying their distinctive effects. In addition, relational turbulence theory articulates causal …
Uncertainty issues and management in adult children's stories of their estrangement with their parents
Framed in the uncertainty literature, the present study explores the uncertainty issues and management practices of adult children who are in the estrangement process with their parents. Results from 52 narrative interviews reveal six types of uncertainty and six management processes. Taken together, results suggest that the estrangement process is marked by chronic uncertainty that can serve multiple functions. Theoretical implications and pract…
Hurtful Episodes in Parent–Adolescent Relationships: How Accounts and Attributions Contribute to the Difficulty of Talking about Hurt
This research examines sense-making about hurtful episodes between parents and adolescents and how sense-making processes relate to subsequent communication. Results highlight differences in the events parents and adolescents find hurtful and the complex forces that influence accounts for hurtful episodes. Children were less affected overall by hurtful episodes and provided more benevolent accounts of parents' hurtful actions and words. Parents d…
Emotions, communicative responses, and relational consequences of boundary turbulence
Guided by communication privacy management theory and appraisal theories of emotion this study examined how emotions (hurt, anger, and fear) and communicative responses (approach and withdrawal strategies) to boundary turbulence correspond with relational outcomes. A community sample of individuals ( N = 273) reported on instances when another person mishandled their private information. Results showed that hurt, anger, fear, distancing, and a co…
Victim and Perpetrator Accounts of Hurtful Messages: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model
This study examined how message characteristics and relational turbulence correspond with victim and perpetrator experiences of hurtful messages. Romantic partners described 2 events: one where each of them was a victim of the partner's hurtful message. Trained judges evaluated qualities of hurtful messages and participants reported relationship qualities, intensity of hurt experienced as a victim, and the partner's hurt feelings when the respond…
Parent and adolescent conversations about hurt: How interaction patterns predict empathic accuracy and perceived understanding
Although hurt feelings might be inevitable in parent–adolescent relationships, follow-up conversations provide an opportunity for reconciliation and learning. This research considers how interaction patterns affect empathic accuracy and perceived understanding by examining the conversations of 98 parent–adolescent dyads regarding an event when adolescents felt hurt by something their parent said or did. Analysis of the interactions revealed three…
Managing information following hurtful experiences: How personal network members negotiate private information
The present study explores how personal network members manage information related to hurtful experiences. The study uses communication privacy management (CPM) theory as the theoretical framework for a theme analysis of responses of disclosers of hurtful experiences and confidants regarding how they manage information related to a hurtful experience. Results of the thematic analysis provide insight into the process by which people disclose a hur…
Explaining Variation in Contemporaneous Responses to Hurt in Premarital Romantic Relationships: A Relational Turbulence Model Perspective
The authors use the relational turbulence model to derive hypotheses linking characteristics of relationships and reactions to hypothetical hurtful messages from a romantic relationship partner. It was hypothesized that relational uncertainty and perceptions of goal interference and facilitation from a partner predict perceptions of relational turbulence, which in turn predicts the intensity of hurt feelings, negative emotions, and the perceived …
The Effect of Relationship Characteristics and Relational Communication on Experiences of Hurt From Romantic Partners: Relationship Characteristics & Hurt
This study expands the relational turbulence model (RTM; Solomon & Knobloch,) by theorizing about how characteristics of relationships and relational judgments influence people's experiences of hurtful messages. Previous applications of RTM to hurt have uncovered associations among relational characteristics that influence people's hurtful experiences; however, the process by which these characteristics influence experiences of hurt remains uncle…
Emotions, communicative responses, and relational consequences of boundary turbulence
Guided by communication privacy management theory and appraisal theories of emotion this study examined how emotions (hurt, anger, and fear) and communicative responses (approach and withdrawal strategies) to boundary turbulence correspond with relational outcomes. A community sample of individuals ( N = 273) reported on instances when another person mishandled their private information. Results showed that hurt, anger, fear, distancing, and a co…
Relational Communication and Understanding in Conversations About Hurtful Events Between Parents and Adolescents: Relational Communication and Understanding
This article examines how the severity of a hurtful event and discrepancies in perceptions of relational communication affect perceived understanding and empathic accuracy (EA) in parent–adolescent discussions about a hurtful event in their relationship. Results from a dyadic interaction study showed that the severity of the hurtful event was negatively associated with perceived understanding. Furthermore, discrepancies in perceptions of disaffil…
Hurtful Episodes in Parent–Adolescent Relationships: How Accounts and Attributions Contribute to the Difficulty of Talking about Hurt
This research examines sense-making about hurtful episodes between parents and adolescents and how sense-making processes relate to subsequent communication. Results highlight differences in the events parents and adolescents find hurtful and the complex forces that influence accounts for hurtful episodes. Children were less affected overall by hurtful episodes and provided more benevolent accounts of parents' hurtful actions and words. Parents d…
Victim and Perpetrator Accounts of Hurtful Messages: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model
This study examined how message characteristics and relational turbulence correspond with victim and perpetrator experiences of hurtful messages. Romantic partners described 2 events: one where each of them was a victim of the partner's hurtful message. Trained judges evaluated qualities of hurtful messages and participants reported relationship qualities, intensity of hurt experienced as a victim, and the partner's hurt feelings when the respond…
Relational Turbulence Theory: Explaining Variation in Subjective Experiences and Communication Within Romantic Relationships
This essay extends the relational turbulence model as a framework for understanding communication in romantic relationships. Following the relational turbulence model, relational turbulence theory identifies relational uncertainty and interdependence as parameters that shape subjective experiences, but the theory clarifies the theoretical processes underlying their distinctive effects. In addition, relational turbulence theory articulates causal …
Managing information following hurtful experiences: How personal network members negotiate private information
The present study explores how personal network members manage information related to hurtful experiences. The study uses communication privacy management (CPM) theory as the theoretical framework for a theme analysis of responses of disclosers of hurtful experiences and confidants regarding how they manage information related to a hurtful experience. Results of the thematic analysis provide insight into the process by which people disclose a hur…
Indirect effects of supportive communication during conversations about coping with relational transgressions
Researchers investigating relational transgressions have minimally explored the role of third‐party personal network members in the coping process. It is argued that supportive messages during conversations about coping with relational transgressions are associated with transgressed individuals' perceived stress and feelings about the transgression. Results from a study involving conversations between 50 pairs of personal network members suggest …
Uncertainty issues and management in adult children's stories of their estrangement with their parents
Framed in the uncertainty literature, the present study explores the uncertainty issues and management practices of adult children who are in the estrangement process with their parents. Results from 52 narrative interviews reveal six types of uncertainty and six management processes. Taken together, results suggest that the estrangement process is marked by chronic uncertainty that can serve multiple functions. Theoretical implications and pract…
Parent and adolescent conversations about hurt: How interaction patterns predict empathic accuracy and perceived understanding
Although hurt feelings might be inevitable in parent–adolescent relationships, follow-up conversations provide an opportunity for reconciliation and learning. This research considers how interaction patterns affect empathic accuracy and perceived understanding by examining the conversations of 98 parent–adolescent dyads regarding an event when adolescents felt hurt by something their parent said or did. Analysis of the interactions revealed three…
Applying Confirmation Theory to Parent-Adolescent Conversations About Self-Disappointments: Parental Acceptance and Challenge Promote Teens’ Emotion Regulation
The Study of Relational Turbulence Theory in Families: Reflections on the Past and Visions for the Future
Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (4 works) · Feeling (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Romance (4 works)