Rachel V Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 165359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel V Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel V |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0828-7926 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessing the Role of Ambivalent Sexism on the Associations Between Individual Characteristics and Sexual Well-Being in New Romantic Relationships
Identity Gaps and LGBTQIA+ Students’ Social Connection, Stigma, and Activism
For LGBTQIA+ individuals, identity development and exploration are salient experiences that may be further impacted by other major life events, including moving away to college. Using the communication theory of identity, we examined identity gaps (i.e., inconsistencies between various frames of identity) between LGBTQIA+ college students’ personal identity and their enacted, relational, and communal identities and their link to social connection…
Disclosing Sexual Dysfunction in Newly Established Romantic Relationships: An Experimental Test of Five Strategies from the Revelation Risk Model
400) to assess five strategies (i.e. initiate, response, third-person disclosure, humor, evidence) used to hypothetically disclose two types of sexual dysfunction (SD) - vulvovaginal pain (VVP) and erectile dysfunction (ED) - in romantic relationships of six months or less. Results indicated that relationship investment varied depending on the SD disclosed, such that participants who imagined that their partner disclosed ED were less invested tha…
Investigating differences in LGBTQIA+ students’ identity gaps during the semester and academic breaks
Guided by the communication theory of identity, we explored gaps between LGBTQIA+ students’ personal, relational, enacted, and communal frames of identity while on campus during the semester compared to during academic breaks. LGBTQIA+ students (N = 234) in the United States completed an online survey. The results indicated that LGBTQIA+ students reported the most intense identity gaps during the semester between the personal and relational frame…
Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: A retrospective review of concept development and extensions
This retrospective review synthesizes communication scholarship concerning character assassination (CA) or the deliberate destruction of a target’s character by an attacker. We first review the five pillars of CA, before tracing the development of CA across the three subfields of communication most prevalent in our sample: Political communication, rhetoric, and persuasion; mediated/mass communication and new communication technologies; and public…
Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength
Guided by implicit theories of relationships and sexual satisfaction and the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL), our study investigated the mediating role of sexual communal strength on associations between implicit beliefs regarding sexual compatibility and relational thriving in new romantic couples (≤ 6 months duration) facing a hypothetical scenario of sexual dysfunction (i.e., vulvovaginal pain or erectile dysfunction). Particip…
A Critical Quantitative Approach to Intersectionality: Interrogating Race and Class in the Context of Female Chronic Pain
Addressing calls to advance critical quantitative approaches to intersectionality, this study used multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to examine how female chronic pain patients’ (N = 350) interactions with their healthcare providers are, in addition to gender, shaped along axes of race and socioeconomic status. Guided by intersectionality and the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study illustrates how quantitative …
Developing Measures for and Testing the Theory of Communicative Disenfranchisement (TCD) in the Context of Chronic Pain
The post-positivist articulation of the theory of communicative disenfranchisement (TCD) asserts that people subjected to disenfranchising talk (DT; talk that discredits, silences, and stereotypes) experience proximal consequences (PCs; reduced agency, perceived credibility, and ability to exercise rights and privileges) and make negative inferences about others' future interactional goals (negative goal inferences [NGIs]). Through the mediators …
Managing Concealable Sexual Health Stigma Through Disclosure
Individuals with concealable stigma continually decide whether, and if so, how to disclose to others. These complex decision-making processes are evident across various stigmatized sexual health contexts, including sexually transmitted diseases and infections, LGBTQ+ identities, and sexual trauma, among others. One context that has received less attention within communication scholarship is difficulty orgasming among women. Due to the stigma asso…
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming
Addressing calls for increased communication scholarship that interrogates power in stigma processes, we develop a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory and demonstrate how it can be used in the context of difficulty orgasming. Semi-structured interviews with mostly white, cisgender women experiencing orgasm difficulties in mixed-sex relationships (N = 31) revealed how dominant discourse creates an idealized…
Contesting illness: Communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions
Guided by the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study analyzes 738 narratives describing negative (n = 381) and positive (n = 357) patient–provider interactions recounted by 399 female-identifying patients residing in 22 countries who are living with poorly understood chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) such as fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, and endometriosis. Using thematic co-occurrence analysis (TCA), a novel method t…
Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength
Guided by implicit theories of relationships and sexual satisfaction and the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL), our study investigated the mediating role of sexual communal strength on associations between implicit beliefs regarding sexual compatibility and relational thriving in new romantic couples (≤ 6 months duration) facing a hypothetical scenario of sexual dysfunction (i.e., vulvovaginal pain or erectile dysfunction). Particip…
Contesting illness: Communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions
Guided by the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study analyzes 738 narratives describing negative (n = 381) and positive (n = 357) patient–provider interactions recounted by 399 female-identifying patients residing in 22 countries who are living with poorly understood chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) such as fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, and endometriosis. Using thematic co-occurrence analysis (TCA), a novel method t…
A Critical Quantitative Approach to Intersectionality: Interrogating Race and Class in the Context of Female Chronic Pain
Addressing calls to advance critical quantitative approaches to intersectionality, this study used multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to examine how female chronic pain patients’ (N = 350) interactions with their healthcare providers are, in addition to gender, shaped along axes of race and socioeconomic status. Guided by intersectionality and the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study illustrates how quantitative …
Developing Measures for and Testing the Theory of Communicative Disenfranchisement (TCD) in the Context of Chronic Pain
The post-positivist articulation of the theory of communicative disenfranchisement (TCD) asserts that people subjected to disenfranchising talk (DT; talk that discredits, silences, and stereotypes) experience proximal consequences (PCs; reduced agency, perceived credibility, and ability to exercise rights and privileges) and make negative inferences about others' future interactional goals (negative goal inferences [NGIs]). Through the mediators …
Managing Concealable Sexual Health Stigma Through Disclosure
Individuals with concealable stigma continually decide whether, and if so, how to disclose to others. These complex decision-making processes are evident across various stigmatized sexual health contexts, including sexually transmitted diseases and infections, LGBTQ+ identities, and sexual trauma, among others. One context that has received less attention within communication scholarship is difficulty orgasming among women. Due to the stigma asso…
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming
Addressing calls for increased communication scholarship that interrogates power in stigma processes, we develop a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory and demonstrate how it can be used in the context of difficulty orgasming. Semi-structured interviews with mostly white, cisgender women experiencing orgasm difficulties in mixed-sex relationships (N = 31) revealed how dominant discourse creates an idealized…
Identity Gaps and LGBTQIA+ Students’ Social Connection, Stigma, and Activism
For LGBTQIA+ individuals, identity development and exploration are salient experiences that may be further impacted by other major life events, including moving away to college. Using the communication theory of identity, we examined identity gaps (i.e., inconsistencies between various frames of identity) between LGBTQIA+ college students’ personal identity and their enacted, relational, and communal identities and their link to social connection…
Disclosing Sexual Dysfunction in Newly Established Romantic Relationships: An Experimental Test of Five Strategies from the Revelation Risk Model
400) to assess five strategies (i.e. initiate, response, third-person disclosure, humor, evidence) used to hypothetically disclose two types of sexual dysfunction (SD) - vulvovaginal pain (VVP) and erectile dysfunction (ED) - in romantic relationships of six months or less. Results indicated that relationship investment varied depending on the SD disclosed, such that participants who imagined that their partner disclosed ED were less invested tha…
Investigating differences in LGBTQIA+ students’ identity gaps during the semester and academic breaks
Guided by the communication theory of identity, we explored gaps between LGBTQIA+ students’ personal, relational, enacted, and communal frames of identity while on campus during the semester compared to during academic breaks. LGBTQIA+ students (N = 234) in the United States completed an online survey. The results indicated that LGBTQIA+ students reported the most intense identity gaps during the semester between the personal and relational frame…
Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: A retrospective review of concept development and extensions
This retrospective review synthesizes communication scholarship concerning character assassination (CA) or the deliberate destruction of a target’s character by an attacker. We first review the five pillars of CA, before tracing the development of CA across the three subfields of communication most prevalent in our sample: Political communication, rhetoric, and persuasion; mediated/mass communication and new communication technologies; and public…
Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength
Guided by implicit theories of relationships and sexual satisfaction and the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL), our study investigated the mediating role of sexual communal strength on associations between implicit beliefs regarding sexual compatibility and relational thriving in new romantic couples (≤ 6 months duration) facing a hypothetical scenario of sexual dysfunction (i.e., vulvovaginal pain or erectile dysfunction). Particip…
Assessing the Role of Ambivalent Sexism on the Associations Between Individual Characteristics and Sexual Well-Being in New Romantic Relationships
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sexual function and dysfunction studies (4 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Romance (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)