D H Solomon

Dados Biográficos

ID11819
NOMED H Solomon
PRENOMESD H
SOBRENOMESolomon
ASSINATURASOLOMON D H
AFILIAÇÕESPennsylvania State University
ORCID0000-0001-5535-0137
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS68
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES648
TOTAL COMO AUTOR68
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1987
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H14

  • The Study of Relational Turbulence Theory in Families

    Rachel M Mclaren, D H Solomon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Communication2026

  • How are Conversations via an On-Demand Peer-To-Peer Emotional Well-Being App Associated with Emotional Improvement

    Open AccessMiriam Brinberg, Susanne M Jones et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2025

    Non-clinical, on-demand peer-to-peer (PtP) support apps have become increasingly popular over the past several years. Although not as pervasive as general self-help apps, these PtP support apps are usually free and instantly connect individuals through live texting with a non-clinical volunteer who has been minimally trained to listen and offer support. To date, there is little empirical work that examines whether and how using an on-demand PtP s…

  • The Role of Person-Centered Messages, Parallel Disclosures, and Reactance When Communicating Support for Parental Death

    Open AccessXi Tian, D H SolomonARTICLECommunication Research2025

    This article evaluates communicative strategies to reduce reactance and enhance outcomes when people receive supportive messages about the death of their parent. Two experiments, a laboratory study and an online survey, manipulated person-centeredness and the presence and timing of parallel bereavement disclosures by the support provider. In both studies, moderately person-centered messages produced less reactance and better support quality, comp…

  • Showcasing Studies of Conversational Motifs Within a Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Communication

    Open AccessD H Solomon, Xi Tian et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2025Citada por: 1Referências: 54

    This essay reports three projects that integrate linguistic features of speaking turns into the identification of conversational motifs, which are multiturn segments of dialog within interpersonal interactions. Study 1 focused on support for bereavement, used Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count data to augment characterizations of speaking turns based on speech act, and identified seven 5-turn conversational motifs. Study 2 examined serial argument…

  • A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships

    Open AccessD H Solomon, Yuwei Li et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2024

    Relational turbulence theory (RTT) suggests that people perceive their romantic relationships as turbulent when they experience interactions that manifest the deleterious effects of relational uncertainty and altered patterns of interdependence. RTT also positions communication in these episodes as associated with subsequent relational uncertainty and qualities of interdependence. Using three-wave panel data collected at three-week intervals, thi…

  • How Do Qualities of Supportive Conversations Affect Heart Rate Variability During Conversations About the Death of a Parent

    Xi Tian, Yuwei Li et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    This study examined the impact of person-centered communication on bereaved young adults' physiological stress responses when they talked about the death of their parent. Heart rate variability - indexed by the standard deviation of the normal-to-normal intervals (SDNN), the root mean square of successive differences (rMSSD), and the heart rate variability index (HRVi) - was monitored before, during, and after the interaction as an objective meas…

  • Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation

    Open AccessMiriam Brinberg, D H Solomon et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2024Referências: 11

  • Relational turbulence and couples' convergence and divergence in weekly highs and lows during three months of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown

    Open AccessShaochun Li, D H Solomon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2024Citada por: 2Referências: 42

    Previous research has found relational benefits of interpersonal emotional convergence. Drawing on relational turbulence theory, we expected that partners' convergence in emotional high and low points is associated with relational uncertainty, qualities of interdependence, and relational turbulence. These hypotheses were tested using data retrieved from a longitudinal project in which spouses in 64 American married couples independently reported …

  • A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of Covid-19 (Summer 2020)

    Open AccessKellie S Brisini, D H SolomonARTICLECommunication Research2023

    Drawing upon relational turbulence theory and the experiencing life transitions model, this study examined communication and relationship qualities as married couples experienced work-family changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixty-four American married, different-sex partners affected by job-related changes due to COVID-19 reported their relationship qualities and their own and their spouse’s engagement in transition processing communication …

  • Linking stress to the emergence of relational turbulence in marriage

    Open AccessKellie S Brisini, D H Solomon et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships2023

    The assumption that stress negatively impacts marital relationships is widely accepted; however, the majority of research has focused on marital satisfaction as the outcome of interest. Relational turbulence is a quality of romantic associations on par with—but distinct from—satisfaction, in which partners conceptualize their relationship as chaotic or tumultuous. This paper draws on relational turbulence theory (RTT) and stress spillover researc…

  • A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Conversation

    D H Solomon, Miriam Brinberg et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2023Citada por: 3Referências: 19

    Conversations between people are where, among other things, stressors are amplified and attenuated, conflicts are entrenched and resolved, and goals are advanced and thwarted. What happens in dyads’ back-and-forth exchanges to produce such consequential and varied outcomes? Although numerous theories in communication and in social psychology address this question, empirical tests of these theories often operationalize conversational behavior usin…

  • Operationalizing relational construal level to test relational turbulence theory

    Open AccessYuwei Li, D H SolomonARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2023Citada por: 7Referências: 45

    Drawing upon construal level theory (CLT) and relational turbulence theory (RTT), two studies developed and assessed three operationalizations of relational construal level, defined as how concretely or abstractly people conceptualize their romantic relationship, and evaluated relational construal level as a mediator of the associations between relational turbulence and supportiveness, collaborative planning, and social network engagement using d…

  • The role of perceived resolvability in serial arguments across the lifespan

    Open AccessR R Vanderbilt, D H SolomonARTICLEPersonal Relationships2022

    This study examined whether the association between romantic relationship quality and the conflict tactics people report using in serial arguments varies based on the perceived resolvability of conflicts and three lifespan indicators: age, relationship length, and relationship stage (i.e., dating or married). Participants ( N = 584) completed an online survey about their last serial argument. Relationship quality was positively associated with in…

  • Coping with Covid‐19 at the community level

    Open AccessYoullee Kim, Xi Tian et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2022Citada por: 1Referências: 57

    The COVID‐19 pandemic is a socially shared health issue that has had profound impacts on all aspects of community life and requires collaborative coping responses. Drawn from the extended theoretical model of communal coping, we examined (a) factors that promote community members' communal coping and (b) the influence of communal coping on perceived stress and positive adaptation in the context of COVID‐19. An empirical test based on the survey o…

  • Relational turbulence and social network engagement during the summer of Covid-19

    Open AccessKellie S Brisini, D H SolomonARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2022Citada por: 3Referências: 21

    Background/Purpose: Relational turbulence theory suggests that changes in and around relationships create the potential for relational turbulence when everyday routines and scripts are upended and communication becomes polarized. In turn, perceptions of a romantic relationship as chaotic or tumultuous can influence a person's engagement with their social network. Alternately, previous research also suggests that engagement with friends and family…

  • Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions

    Open AccessD H Solomon, Susanne M Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2022Citada por: 10Referências: 40

    This study demonstrates how sequence analysis, which is a method for identifying common patterns in categorical time series data, illuminates the nonlinear dynamics of dyadic conversations by describing chains of behavior that shift categorically, rather than incrementally. When applied to interpersonal interactions, sequence analysis supports the identification of conversational motifs, which can be used to test hypotheses linking patterns of in…

  • Relational Uncertainty Within Relational Turbulence Theory

    Open AccessA K Goodboy, San Bolkan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2021

    Relational uncertainty consists of self, partner, and relationship uncertainty, which are core parameters in relational turbulence theory (RTT). Advances in latent variable modeling allow researchers to examine the multidimensional construct as a bifactor model, including a general factor of relational uncertainty and residualized factors of self, partner, and relationship uncertainty. This advance is theoretically consequential because RTT maint…

  • A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication

    Open AccessD H Solomon, Miriam Brinberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2021

    This article articulates conceptual and methodological strategies for studying the dynamic structure of dyadic interaction revealed by the turn-to-turn exchange of messages between partners. Using dyadic time series data that capture partners’ back-and-forth contributions to conversations, dynamic dyadic systems analysis illuminates how individuals act and react to each other as they jointly construct conversations. Five layers of inquiry are off…

  • The Effects of Type of Pronouns and Hope Appeals in Supportive Messages About Covid-19

    Open AccessXi Tian, Youllee Kim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2021

    This study examined the role of pronouns in supportive messages and hope appeals in facilitating people's coping with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Participants included 256 residents of New York State, and they evaluated hypothetical messages about COVID-19. Results showed that when people have a communal orientation to coping, you-language (vs. we-language) supportive messages led to more emotional improvement. The presence (vs. absence) of hope…

  • Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations

    Open AccessGraham D Bodie, Susanne M Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2021Citada por: 3Referências: 32

    This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types of speaking turns, (b) listener turn types vary…

  • Using technology to unobtrusively observe relationship development

    Open AccessMiriam Brinberg, R R Vanderbilt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2021Citada por: 8Referências: 33

    Texting plays an increasingly important role in romantic relationships. Along with the increased use and impact of technology in and on relationships, technology provides new approaches to observe and study relationships. This study demonstrates the potential for using unobtrusive measures of texting obtained through mobile data donation for the study of communication behaviors during relationship development. In particular, we examine how textin…

  • Distinguishing relational turbulence, marital satisfaction, and parenting stress as predictors of ineffective Arguing among parents of children with autism

    Open AccessKellie S Brisini, D H SolomonARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2021Citada por: 8Referências: 55

    Relational turbulence theory suggests that relational turbulence causes pervasive patterns of dysfunctional communication in romantic relationships, such as an inability to resolve conflicts. Other research traditions link marital conflict to marital satisfaction and also exposure to stress. This study assesses the discriminant validity of relational turbulence by examining its association with reports of ineffective arguing, above and beyond the…

  • How the Comforting Process Fails

    Open AccessXi Tian, D H Solomon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2020

    This study extends the theory of psychological reactance to the context of social support by examining how supportive communication is associated with psychological reactance and subsequent support outcomes. The final sample included 325 married adults who had experienced a marital disagreement, and were asked to evaluate a hypothetical support message that varied in the level of person-centeredness provided by a social network member. The result…

  • Building Expertise

    Open AccessKellie S Brisini, D H SolomonARTICLEJournal of Language and Social…2020Referências: 28

    People place more value on advice from others whom they view as expert; however, the ways in which advisors might increase perceptions of their expertise through language choice remains unclear. This article examines a married partner’s ability to influence perceptions of their expertise, and consequent advice outcomes, by making explicit claims about past experience with a problem. Two experimental studies tested the effects of experience claims…

  • A relational turbulence theory perspective on women's grief following miscarriage

    Open AccessXi Tian, D H SolomonARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2020Citada por: 11Referências: 56

    This study used relational turbulence theory to examine (a) how the relational impact of miscarriage corresponded with bereaved mothers' grief responses and (b) the association between a partner's supportive conversational behaviors and relationship qualities. The sample included 193 women who had experienced a miscarriage within the previous year. As predicted, relational uncertainty was positively associated with women's negative appraisals of …