Alan Sillars
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 162964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Sillars |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Sillars |
| ASSINATURA | SILLARS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Montana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2138-3437 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 461 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Empathic accuracy and cognitions during conflict
Empathic accuracy research indicates that partners achieve only moderate success at reading each other's thoughts. The current study identifies specific patterns of online thought that contribute to empathic inaccuracy during conflict interactions. Married/cohabiting partners completed a conflict interaction and reported their own thoughts during video‐assisted recall of the interaction, also inferring the thoughts of the other partner. Content a…
Parent and adolescent conversations about hurt
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…
Investigating married adults’ communal coping with genetic health risk and perceived discrimination
Increased genetic testing in personalized medicine presents unique challenges for couples, including managing disease risk and potential discrimination as a couple. This study investigated couples' conflicts and support gaps as they coped with perceived genetic discrimination. We also explored the degree to which communal coping was beneficial in reducing support gaps, and ultimately stress. Dyadic analysis of married adults ( N = 266, 133 couple…
Face Threat and Facework Strategies When Family (Health) Secrets Are Revealed
This study examined face threat and facework strategies when people witness family members disclosing sensitive health information to family outsiders. Korean and U.S. participants were expected to view these situations differently based on Confucian versus individualist identity and in-group privacy norms. Korean and U.S. college samples evaluated vignettes in which health information was disclosed to family outsiders. Koreans regarded the situa…
Conversation and Conformity Orientations as Predictors of Observed Conflict Tactics in Parent-Adolescent Discussions
This research considers how observed tactics and patterns in parent-adolescent conflict relate to family orientations toward communication. Fifty families (mother, father, and mid-adolescent child) discussed family changes desired by each person. In high versus low conformity families, parents (fathers especially) pressured more, were more confrontational, and were less conciliatory, whereas children were less analytic and more apt to withdraw in…
Hurtful Episodes in Parent–Adolescent Relationships
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…
Agreement and understanding about honesty and deception rules in romantic relationships
This research describes perceived rules pertaining to honesty in romantic relationships, identifies sources of accuracy and bias affecting consensus on rules, and clarifies implications for couple conflict. Couples typically idealize honesty; yet, situational rules are vulnerable to different interpretations due to ambiguous properties of deception and pressures to balance openness with discretion. The research distinguishes obligatory rules, whi…
Talk About “Hooking Up”
This research considers how communication within college student social networks may encourage high-risk sexual relationships. Students (n = 274) described sexual scripts for hooking up and reported on peer communication, sexual behavior, and sexual attitudes. Students described varied hookup scripts, expressed ambivalent attitudes, and reported moderate participation in hookups overall. However, the most common hookup script, suggesting high-ris…
Sibling Support During Post-Divorce Adjustment
This research examines social support from siblings following parental divorce, based on retrospective interviews and ratings obtained from adult children of divorced parents. Sibling relationships were diverse in the extent, form, and direction of support, as reflected in seven types of sibling support relationships (separates, pals, allies, opponents, parent, protector, encourager). Availability/companionship with siblings predicted improved ad…
Misattributions contributing to empathic (in)accuracy during parent-adolescent conflict discussions
This research examined the content of self-reported thoughts and thoughts attributed to others during video-assisted recall of parent—adolescent conflict discussions. We hypothesized that parents and adolescents tend to frame family conflicts differently and thereby misattribute certain thoughts to one another. Coded thoughts revealed that parents over-attributed negative and avoidance thoughts to adolescents, overlooked admissions by adolescents…
Communication and Understanding in Parent-Adolescent Relationships
This research examined communication and parent-adolescent understanding, including understanding about family conflicts, adolescent self-concepts, and immediate thoughts (or empathic accuracy). Fifty parent-adolescent triads completed questionnaires, held a discussion, and reported on immediate thoughts during the discussion using video-assisted recall methods. Alternative measures of understanding produced distinct results. Parental understandi…
Communication and Understanding in Parent?Adolescent Relationships
Journal Article Communication and Understanding in Parent–Adolescent Relationships Get access Alan Sillars, Alan Sillars 1University of Montana 4Alan Sillars, Department of Communication Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ascan Koerner, Ascan Koerner 2University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mary Anne Fi…
Cognition During Marital Conflict
This article describes and analyzes the stream of thought occurring concurrently with overt communication about marital conflict. The research considers how marital conflicts may be affected by selective attention to different elements of conflict (different emotions, issues, interactional behaviors, and background events) and by spontaneous attributions about communicative intentions and outcomes. One hundred eighteen couples discussed a current…
Relating
Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics Get access Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics. By Leslie A. Baxter, B. M. Montgomery. New York: Guilford Press, 1996. 285 pp. $18.95 (soft). Alan L. Sillars Alan L. Sillars 1University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 4, December 1997, Pages 199–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcom/47.4.199 Published: 07 February 2006
Marital Communication and the Persistence of Misunderstanding
This research examined spouses' understanding of their partners and the relation of understanding to the amount of communication in marriage. The results showed that spouses overestimated agreement with their partners; therefore, understanding scores were low after response similarity (i.e. agreement) was factored out. Reported communication had a complex relation to understanding. Communication had a slight positive association with wives' under…
Conversational Themes and Marital Relationship Definitions Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations
This article examines relationship themes in the conversations of 52 married couples and suggests that implicit aspects of relationship definition are reflected, first, in the content of discussion themes and, second, in the way that different themes are integrated. As expected, "communal" themes (concerning togetherness, cooperation, and communication) were expressed more frequently and individual themes (concerning personality and individual di…
Life-Stage Differences in Communication During Marital Conflicts
Conversations involving young, middle-aged and retired married couples were analyzed to shed light on the characteristics of communication within older marriages. The research indicated that retired couples were the least analytic and most non-committal in their remarks. Generally, retired couples rated marital problems as non-salient and their conversations were non-conflictive. However, those among the retired group who perceived salient, unres…
A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication
Despite the persistence of sex‐typed images of the expressivity of wife and husband, past observational studies have given little indication of sex‐linked differences in marital communication. Thus, we proposed that inter personally negotiated role expectations would be a better predictor of communication about marital conflict than sex. However, we also proposed that there might be sex differences within particular clusters of couples who endors…
Content Themes in Marital Conversations
Conversational themes can be viewed as a form of met communication about relationships. We suggest that the prominent themes in the conversations of spouses identify factors assumed to have an important effect on the relationship. Further, different ways of looking at marriage are reflected in the use of particular content themes. A typology of content themes was derived from transcripts of conversations and the typology was used to code the disc…
Reciprocity of Marital Communication
The discussions of seventy-three married couples were analysed for sequential and distributional patterns of paralinguistic affect and verbal conflict. The paralinguistic analyses supported behavioural skills approaches to marital communication: on highly salient topics, less satisfied couples had greater negative reciprocity than more satisfied couples. However, the verbal communication results were inconsistent with prevailing assumptions about…
Communication and Understanding in Marriage
Two studies are reported in which audiotape contestations of married couples were analyzed. A total of 82 couples were involved. The research considered how understanding of feelings is related to verbal and nonverbal communication. Paraling expression of affect was more consistently related to understanding than verbal disclosure. Further, there was a strong tendency for spouses to use their own feelings as a reference for predicting their partn…
Communication and Conflict in Marriage
(1983). Communication and Conflict in Marriage. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 7, Communication Yearbook 7, pp. 414-430
Interpersonal Perception Between Intimates an Integrative Review
Despite the considerable importance often attributed to interpersonal perception between married partners, family members, and other intimates, there have been few theoretical developments that address the distinctive factors affecting perception in these contexts. This article draws upon a broad literature review to suggest how interpersonal perception between intimates may be affected by such factors as familiarity, emotionality, behavioral int…
Coding Verbal Conflict Tactics
Coding procedures developed by Sillars (1980a) classified statements made during interpersonal conflict into "avoidance,""integrative," and "distributive" categories. In the present paper we present evidence that these distinctions provide an intuitively sound and theoretically meaningful basis for coding communication during conflict. Two studies are reported. In the first study, verbal tactics correlated in the expected ways with observer perce…
The Sequential and Distributional Structure of Conflict Interactions as a Function of Attributions Concerning the Locus of Responsibility and Stability of Conflicts
This study examines the sequential and distributional structure of discussions involving college roommates. Subjects were videotaped discussing a series of conflict issues that typically occur among roommates. The subjects privately completed questionnaires prior to the discussions where they identified conflicts they had experienced with their roommates, rated their own responsibility and their roommate's responsibility for causing these conflic…
Interpersonal Perception Between Intimates an Integrative Review
Despite the considerable importance often attributed to interpersonal perception between married partners, family members, and other intimates, there have been few theoretical developments that address the distinctive factors affecting perception in these contexts. This article draws upon a broad literature review to suggest how interpersonal perception between intimates may be affected by such factors as familiarity, emotionality, behavioral int…
Attributions and communication in roommate conflicts
This paper develops a theoretical approach to communication in interpersonal conflict which emphasizes the role of attributional processes. According to this view, communicative decisions in conflict are largely a function of social attributions about the intent, causality, and stability of behaviors in conflict. Factors which bias attributions along these dimensions encourage noncooperative conflict stategies. Predictions from this perspective w…
Cognition During Marital Conflict
This article describes and analyzes the stream of thought occurring concurrently with overt communication about marital conflict. The research considers how marital conflicts may be affected by selective attention to different elements of conflict (different emotions, issues, interactional behaviors, and background events) and by spontaneous attributions about communicative intentions and outcomes. One hundred eighteen couples discussed a current…
Coding Verbal Conflict Tactics
Coding procedures developed by Sillars (1980a) classified statements made during interpersonal conflict into "avoidance,""integrative," and "distributive" categories. In the present paper we present evidence that these distinctions provide an intuitively sound and theoretically meaningful basis for coding communication during conflict. Two studies are reported. In the first study, verbal tactics correlated in the expected ways with observer perce…
Communication and Understanding in Marriage
Two studies are reported in which audiotape contestations of married couples were analyzed. A total of 82 couples were involved. The research considered how understanding of feelings is related to verbal and nonverbal communication. Paraling expression of affect was more consistently related to understanding than verbal disclosure. Further, there was a strong tendency for spouses to use their own feelings as a reference for predicting their partn…
The Stranger and the Spouse as Target Persons for Compliance-Gaining Strategies
This study examines the use of compliance-gaining message strategies in “interpersonal” versus “noninterpersonal” relationships. Subjects were asked how likely they would be to use persuasive strategies in a hypothetical situation involving either a spouse (interpersonal situation) or new neighbors (noninterpersonal situation). A subjective expected utility model is proposed to account for subjects' choice of strategies. According to the SEU mode…
Life-Stage Differences in Communication During Marital Conflicts
Conversations involving young, middle-aged and retired married couples were analyzed to shed light on the characteristics of communication within older marriages. The research indicated that retired couples were the least analytic and most non-committal in their remarks. Generally, retired couples rated marital problems as non-salient and their conversations were non-conflictive. However, those among the retired group who perceived salient, unres…
Communication and Understanding in Parent?Adolescent Relationships
Journal Article Communication and Understanding in Parent–Adolescent Relationships Get access Alan Sillars, Alan Sillars 1University of Montana 4Alan Sillars, Department of Communication Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ascan Koerner, Ascan Koerner 2University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mary Anne Fi…
Communication and Understanding in Parent-Adolescent Relationships
This research examined communication and parent-adolescent understanding, including understanding about family conflicts, adolescent self-concepts, and immediate thoughts (or empathic accuracy). Fifty parent-adolescent triads completed questionnaires, held a discussion, and reported on immediate thoughts during the discussion using video-assisted recall methods. Alternative measures of understanding produced distinct results. Parental understandi…
Reciprocity of Marital Communication
The discussions of seventy-three married couples were analysed for sequential and distributional patterns of paralinguistic affect and verbal conflict. The paralinguistic analyses supported behavioural skills approaches to marital communication: on highly salient topics, less satisfied couples had greater negative reciprocity than more satisfied couples. However, the verbal communication results were inconsistent with prevailing assumptions about…
A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication
Despite the persistence of sex‐typed images of the expressivity of wife and husband, past observational studies have given little indication of sex‐linked differences in marital communication. Thus, we proposed that inter personally negotiated role expectations would be a better predictor of communication about marital conflict than sex. However, we also proposed that there might be sex differences within particular clusters of couples who endors…
Hurtful Episodes in Parent–Adolescent Relationships
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…
Misattributions contributing to empathic (in)accuracy during parent-adolescent conflict discussions
This research examined the content of self-reported thoughts and thoughts attributed to others during video-assisted recall of parent—adolescent conflict discussions. We hypothesized that parents and adolescents tend to frame family conflicts differently and thereby misattribute certain thoughts to one another. Coded thoughts revealed that parents over-attributed negative and avoidance thoughts to adolescents, overlooked admissions by adolescents…
Agreement and understanding about honesty and deception rules in romantic relationships
This research describes perceived rules pertaining to honesty in romantic relationships, identifies sources of accuracy and bias affecting consensus on rules, and clarifies implications for couple conflict. Couples typically idealize honesty; yet, situational rules are vulnerable to different interpretations due to ambiguous properties of deception and pressures to balance openness with discretion. The research distinguishes obligatory rules, whi…
Content Themes in Marital Conversations
Conversational themes can be viewed as a form of met communication about relationships. We suggest that the prominent themes in the conversations of spouses identify factors assumed to have an important effect on the relationship. Further, different ways of looking at marriage are reflected in the use of particular content themes. A typology of content themes was derived from transcripts of conversations and the typology was used to code the disc…
Conversation and Conformity Orientations as Predictors of Observed Conflict Tactics in Parent-Adolescent Discussions
This research considers how observed tactics and patterns in parent-adolescent conflict relate to family orientations toward communication. Fifty families (mother, father, and mid-adolescent child) discussed family changes desired by each person. In high versus low conformity families, parents (fathers especially) pressured more, were more confrontational, and were less conciliatory, whereas children were less analytic and more apt to withdraw in…
Marital Communication and the Persistence of Misunderstanding
This research examined spouses' understanding of their partners and the relation of understanding to the amount of communication in marriage. The results showed that spouses overestimated agreement with their partners; therefore, understanding scores were low after response similarity (i.e. agreement) was factored out. Reported communication had a complex relation to understanding. Communication had a slight positive association with wives' under…
Parent and adolescent conversations about hurt
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…
Communication and Conflict in Marriage
(1983). Communication and Conflict in Marriage. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 7, Communication Yearbook 7, pp. 414-430
The Sequential and Distributional Structure of Conflict Interactions as a Function of Attributions Concerning the Locus of Responsibility and Stability of Conflicts
This study examines the sequential and distributional structure of discussions involving college roommates. Subjects were videotaped discussing a series of conflict issues that typically occur among roommates. The subjects privately completed questionnaires prior to the discussions where they identified conflicts they had experienced with their roommates, rated their own responsibility and their roommate's responsibility for causing these conflic…
Investigating married adults’ communal coping with genetic health risk and perceived discrimination
Increased genetic testing in personalized medicine presents unique challenges for couples, including managing disease risk and potential discrimination as a couple. This study investigated couples' conflicts and support gaps as they coped with perceived genetic discrimination. We also explored the degree to which communal coping was beneficial in reducing support gaps, and ultimately stress. Dyadic analysis of married adults ( N = 266, 133 couple…
Sibling Support During Post-Divorce Adjustment
This research examines social support from siblings following parental divorce, based on retrospective interviews and ratings obtained from adult children of divorced parents. Sibling relationships were diverse in the extent, form, and direction of support, as reflected in seven types of sibling support relationships (separates, pals, allies, opponents, parent, protector, encourager). Availability/companionship with siblings predicted improved ad…
Conversational Themes and Marital Relationship Definitions Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations
This article examines relationship themes in the conversations of 52 married couples and suggests that implicit aspects of relationship definition are reflected, first, in the content of discussion themes and, second, in the way that different themes are integrated. As expected, "communal" themes (concerning togetherness, cooperation, and communication) were expressed more frequently and individual themes (concerning personality and individual di…
The Sequential and Distributional Structure of Conflict Interactions as a Function of Attributions Concerning the Locus of Responsibility and Stability of Conflicts
This study examines the sequential and distributional structure of discussions involving college roommates. Subjects were videotaped discussing a series of conflict issues that typically occur among roommates. The subjects privately completed questionnaires prior to the discussions where they identified conflicts they had experienced with their roommates, rated their own responsibility and their roommate's responsibility for causing these conflic…
Attributions and communication in roommate conflicts
This paper develops a theoretical approach to communication in interpersonal conflict which emphasizes the role of attributional processes. According to this view, communicative decisions in conflict are largely a function of social attributions about the intent, causality, and stability of behaviors in conflict. Factors which bias attributions along these dimensions encourage noncooperative conflict stategies. Predictions from this perspective w…
The Stranger and the Spouse as Target Persons for Compliance-Gaining Strategies
This study examines the use of compliance-gaining message strategies in “interpersonal” versus “noninterpersonal” relationships. Subjects were asked how likely they would be to use persuasive strategies in a hypothetical situation involving either a spouse (interpersonal situation) or new neighbors (noninterpersonal situation). A subjective expected utility model is proposed to account for subjects' choice of strategies. According to the SEU mode…
Coding Verbal Conflict Tactics
Coding procedures developed by Sillars (1980a) classified statements made during interpersonal conflict into "avoidance,""integrative," and "distributive" categories. In the present paper we present evidence that these distinctions provide an intuitively sound and theoretically meaningful basis for coding communication during conflict. Two studies are reported. In the first study, verbal tactics correlated in the expected ways with observer perce…
Communication and Conflict in Marriage
(1983). Communication and Conflict in Marriage. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 7, Communication Yearbook 7, pp. 414-430
Interpersonal Perception Between Intimates an Integrative Review
Despite the considerable importance often attributed to interpersonal perception between married partners, family members, and other intimates, there have been few theoretical developments that address the distinctive factors affecting perception in these contexts. This article draws upon a broad literature review to suggest how interpersonal perception between intimates may be affected by such factors as familiarity, emotionality, behavioral int…
Communication and Understanding in Marriage
Two studies are reported in which audiotape contestations of married couples were analyzed. A total of 82 couples were involved. The research considered how understanding of feelings is related to verbal and nonverbal communication. Paraling expression of affect was more consistently related to understanding than verbal disclosure. Further, there was a strong tendency for spouses to use their own feelings as a reference for predicting their partn…
Reciprocity of Marital Communication
The discussions of seventy-three married couples were analysed for sequential and distributional patterns of paralinguistic affect and verbal conflict. The paralinguistic analyses supported behavioural skills approaches to marital communication: on highly salient topics, less satisfied couples had greater negative reciprocity than more satisfied couples. However, the verbal communication results were inconsistent with prevailing assumptions about…
A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication
Despite the persistence of sex‐typed images of the expressivity of wife and husband, past observational studies have given little indication of sex‐linked differences in marital communication. Thus, we proposed that inter personally negotiated role expectations would be a better predictor of communication about marital conflict than sex. However, we also proposed that there might be sex differences within particular clusters of couples who endors…
Content Themes in Marital Conversations
Conversational themes can be viewed as a form of met communication about relationships. We suggest that the prominent themes in the conversations of spouses identify factors assumed to have an important effect on the relationship. Further, different ways of looking at marriage are reflected in the use of particular content themes. A typology of content themes was derived from transcripts of conversations and the typology was used to code the disc…
Life-Stage Differences in Communication During Marital Conflicts
Conversations involving young, middle-aged and retired married couples were analyzed to shed light on the characteristics of communication within older marriages. The research indicated that retired couples were the least analytic and most non-committal in their remarks. Generally, retired couples rated marital problems as non-salient and their conversations were non-conflictive. However, those among the retired group who perceived salient, unres…
Conversational Themes and Marital Relationship Definitions Quantitative and Qualitative Investigations
This article examines relationship themes in the conversations of 52 married couples and suggests that implicit aspects of relationship definition are reflected, first, in the content of discussion themes and, second, in the way that different themes are integrated. As expected, "communal" themes (concerning togetherness, cooperation, and communication) were expressed more frequently and individual themes (concerning personality and individual di…
Marital Communication and the Persistence of Misunderstanding
This research examined spouses' understanding of their partners and the relation of understanding to the amount of communication in marriage. The results showed that spouses overestimated agreement with their partners; therefore, understanding scores were low after response similarity (i.e. agreement) was factored out. Reported communication had a complex relation to understanding. Communication had a slight positive association with wives' under…
Relating
Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics Get access Relating: Dialogues & Dialectics. By Leslie A. Baxter, B. M. Montgomery. New York: Guilford Press, 1996. 285 pp. $18.95 (soft). Alan L. Sillars Alan L. Sillars 1University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 4, December 1997, Pages 199–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcom/47.4.199 Published: 07 February 2006
Cognition During Marital Conflict
This article describes and analyzes the stream of thought occurring concurrently with overt communication about marital conflict. The research considers how marital conflicts may be affected by selective attention to different elements of conflict (different emotions, issues, interactional behaviors, and background events) and by spontaneous attributions about communicative intentions and outcomes. One hundred eighteen couples discussed a current…
Communication and Understanding in Parent-Adolescent Relationships
This research examined communication and parent-adolescent understanding, including understanding about family conflicts, adolescent self-concepts, and immediate thoughts (or empathic accuracy). Fifty parent-adolescent triads completed questionnaires, held a discussion, and reported on immediate thoughts during the discussion using video-assisted recall methods. Alternative measures of understanding produced distinct results. Parental understandi…
Communication and Understanding in Parent?Adolescent Relationships
Journal Article Communication and Understanding in Parent–Adolescent Relationships Get access Alan Sillars, Alan Sillars 1University of Montana 4Alan Sillars, Department of Communication Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ascan Koerner, Ascan Koerner 2University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mary Anne Fi…
Misattributions contributing to empathic (in)accuracy during parent-adolescent conflict discussions
This research examined the content of self-reported thoughts and thoughts attributed to others during video-assisted recall of parent—adolescent conflict discussions. We hypothesized that parents and adolescents tend to frame family conflicts differently and thereby misattribute certain thoughts to one another. Coded thoughts revealed that parents over-attributed negative and avoidance thoughts to adolescents, overlooked admissions by adolescents…
Talk About “Hooking Up”
This research considers how communication within college student social networks may encourage high-risk sexual relationships. Students (n = 274) described sexual scripts for hooking up and reported on peer communication, sexual behavior, and sexual attitudes. Students described varied hookup scripts, expressed ambivalent attitudes, and reported moderate participation in hookups overall. However, the most common hookup script, suggesting high-ris…
Sibling Support During Post-Divorce Adjustment
This research examines social support from siblings following parental divorce, based on retrospective interviews and ratings obtained from adult children of divorced parents. Sibling relationships were diverse in the extent, form, and direction of support, as reflected in seven types of sibling support relationships (separates, pals, allies, opponents, parent, protector, encourager). Availability/companionship with siblings predicted improved ad…
Conversation and Conformity Orientations as Predictors of Observed Conflict Tactics in Parent-Adolescent Discussions
This research considers how observed tactics and patterns in parent-adolescent conflict relate to family orientations toward communication. Fifty families (mother, father, and mid-adolescent child) discussed family changes desired by each person. In high versus low conformity families, parents (fathers especially) pressured more, were more confrontational, and were less conciliatory, whereas children were less analytic and more apt to withdraw in…
Hurtful Episodes in Parent–Adolescent Relationships
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…
Agreement and understanding about honesty and deception rules in romantic relationships
This research describes perceived rules pertaining to honesty in romantic relationships, identifies sources of accuracy and bias affecting consensus on rules, and clarifies implications for couple conflict. Couples typically idealize honesty; yet, situational rules are vulnerable to different interpretations due to ambiguous properties of deception and pressures to balance openness with discretion. The research distinguishes obligatory rules, whi…
Face Threat and Facework Strategies When Family (Health) Secrets Are Revealed
This study examined face threat and facework strategies when people witness family members disclosing sensitive health information to family outsiders. Korean and U.S. participants were expected to view these situations differently based on Confucian versus individualist identity and in-group privacy norms. Korean and U.S. college samples evaluated vignettes in which health information was disclosed to family outsiders. Koreans regarded the situa…
Investigating married adults’ communal coping with genetic health risk and perceived discrimination
Increased genetic testing in personalized medicine presents unique challenges for couples, including managing disease risk and potential discrimination as a couple. This study investigated couples' conflicts and support gaps as they coped with perceived genetic discrimination. We also explored the degree to which communal coping was beneficial in reducing support gaps, and ultimately stress. Dyadic analysis of married adults ( N = 266, 133 couple…
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