Lynne Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hartford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4435-7664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding Parents’ Information Seeking About Adolescents’ Use of Social Apps Using Theory of Motivated Information Management
Many parents have concerns about what their adolescent children are doing online, including potential risks of their tweens and teens encountering people who may want to harm them. Some fear they do not know what their children are doing online and may be motivated to seek information to alleviate their uncertainty. This study applied the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) to examine parents’ information management process amid fee…
Understanding parents’ sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use through the lens of relational dialectics theory 2.0
With the development of social media, parents must figure out how to guide their children’s use or even whether to allow it. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 parents of daughters aged 12–18. Relational dialectics theory 2.0 was used to analyze how parents’ talk revealed their sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use. Analysis revealed that parents voiced competing discourses pertaining to “…
“I Just Like to Share My Life with My Partner
Participants (N = 312) in romantic relationships completed an online survey to determine common integrated phone activities, motivations for integrating phones into time together, and whether phone integration is associated with relationship satisfaction. The most frequent activities included showing social media posts, photos, and videos; showing texts; and involving the partner in video calls. Primary motivations for integrating phones into par…
Conversational partners’ interactions in response to co-present mobile phone usage
The goals of the two studies were to identify common communicative responses to co-present mobile phone usage and conversational partners’ reactions to that communication, and to determine whether individuals perceive their communicative responses as effective. Study 1 identified common participant responses and partner (i.e., phone user) reactions to those responses. In Study 2, researchers coded data from a new sample for these same responses a…
Seeking safer spaces
Memory Craft
The Presence of Cell Phones in Romantic Partner Face-to-Face Interactions
Cell phones are essential in maintaining ties with romantic partners but they can also detract from quality time we spend with them. The purpose of this study was to examine expectations that romantic partners have of cell phone usage during time spent together and how they manage violations of expectations. Using Expectancy Violation Theory (EVT; Burgoon, 1978 Burgoon, J. K. (1978). A communication model of personal space violations: Explication…
Cell Phone Usage Expectations, Closeness, and Relationship Satisfaction Between Parents and Their Emerging Adults in College
Frequent cell phone contact between emerging adults in college and parents raises the question of how they manage access and maintain control over cell phone use and how it affects their relationships. Emerging adults in college ( N = 207) completed measures of relational satisfaction and closeness, cell phone satisfaction, and cell phone rules for their parents. Participants reported cell phone rules about availability, repetitive contact, and r…
Mean Girls in College
Relational aggression involves manipulating others' social standing and reputation through communication behaviors that include gossiping, spreading rumors, name-calling, cruel teasing, and ostracizing. Using accounting as the theoretical framework, researchers analyzed transcripts from interviews with 30 college women to understand how they account for their relationally aggressive behaviors. Findings revealed five themes that reflected specific…
Fear and Competence in Japan and the U.S
This cross-cultural investigation examines the relationship between fear of negative evaluation, affect for communication channels (i.e., email versus face-to-face), and self-reports of communication competence. Participants from both Japan (N = 296) and the United States (N = 325) responded to three scales: Fear of Negative Evaluation (Leary, M. R. (1983 Leary, MR. 1983. Understanding social anxiety, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. [Google Scholar]) Un…
Development of the Affect for Communication Channels Scale
As computers have increasingly provided new channels of communication, scholars have taken an interest in computer-mediated communication (CMC) in general and the impact of personality traits and other antecedents of preference for face-to-face or computer channels. Research is hampered, however, by the lack of standardized measures of CMC-related concepts. Three studies (N = 914) were undertaken to develop and validate a measure of affect for us…
Family communication patterns, family environment, and the impact of parental alcoholism on offspring self-esteem
This study examined the role of perceptions of family environment and family communication as mediators of the effects of parental alcoholism on the self-esteem of adult children of alcoholics. Participants (N = 227) completed self-reports of parental alcoholism, family environment, family communication patterns (FCP), and self-esteem. Results indicated a negative relationship between the seriousness of both maternal and paternal alcoholism and s…
Mirror Gazing
As our understanding of talent development becomes increasingly multi-faceted, the programs designed to nurture that development also become more complex. Researchers and practitioners alike have called for the opportunity to share perspectives and to become more reflective about their work: to have the opportunity to see what it is they are doing in order to explore how effective it is and for whom. This article reports on the development of a p…
Communication apprehension in Japan
Discourse Strategies of Competent Communicators
The Inappropriateness of Using Participants' Reactions to Evaluate Effectiveness of Training
The prevailing wisdom in the evaluation of training effectiveness is that participants' reactions are of limited utility; however, they continue to be the preferred instrument in most industrial settings. The end result of this policy could be disastrous as well as expensive in light of research which indicates that training participants tend systematically to distort their evaluations of training in a positive fashion
A Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose
Theorists claim that reticence, communication apprehension, unwillingness to communicate, and shyness are different problems, but the interrelationships among those constructs has not been systematically explored. The purpose of this paper is to examine theoretical assumptions underlying these four constructs regarding the nature of the problem, how it is identified, its etiology, and proposed solutions. This analysis reveals that the four labels…
Family communication patterns, family environment, and the impact of parental alcoholism on offspring self-esteem
This study examined the role of perceptions of family environment and family communication as mediators of the effects of parental alcoholism on the self-esteem of adult children of alcoholics. Participants (N = 227) completed self-reports of parental alcoholism, family environment, family communication patterns (FCP), and self-esteem. Results indicated a negative relationship between the seriousness of both maternal and paternal alcoholism and s…
A Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose
Theorists claim that reticence, communication apprehension, unwillingness to communicate, and shyness are different problems, but the interrelationships among those constructs has not been systematically explored. The purpose of this paper is to examine theoretical assumptions underlying these four constructs regarding the nature of the problem, how it is identified, its etiology, and proposed solutions. This analysis reveals that the four labels…
Discourse Strategies of Competent Communicators
Communication apprehension in Japan
Mean Girls in College
Relational aggression involves manipulating others' social standing and reputation through communication behaviors that include gossiping, spreading rumors, name-calling, cruel teasing, and ostracizing. Using accounting as the theoretical framework, researchers analyzed transcripts from interviews with 30 college women to understand how they account for their relationally aggressive behaviors. Findings revealed five themes that reflected specific…
A Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose
Theorists claim that reticence, communication apprehension, unwillingness to communicate, and shyness are different problems, but the interrelationships among those constructs has not been systematically explored. The purpose of this paper is to examine theoretical assumptions underlying these four constructs regarding the nature of the problem, how it is identified, its etiology, and proposed solutions. This analysis reveals that the four labels…
The Inappropriateness of Using Participants' Reactions to Evaluate Effectiveness of Training
The prevailing wisdom in the evaluation of training effectiveness is that participants' reactions are of limited utility; however, they continue to be the preferred instrument in most industrial settings. The end result of this policy could be disastrous as well as expensive in light of research which indicates that training participants tend systematically to distort their evaluations of training in a positive fashion
Discourse Strategies of Competent Communicators
Communication apprehension in Japan
Mirror Gazing
As our understanding of talent development becomes increasingly multi-faceted, the programs designed to nurture that development also become more complex. Researchers and practitioners alike have called for the opportunity to share perspectives and to become more reflective about their work: to have the opportunity to see what it is they are doing in order to explore how effective it is and for whom. This article reports on the development of a p…
Family communication patterns, family environment, and the impact of parental alcoholism on offspring self-esteem
This study examined the role of perceptions of family environment and family communication as mediators of the effects of parental alcoholism on the self-esteem of adult children of alcoholics. Participants (N = 227) completed self-reports of parental alcoholism, family environment, family communication patterns (FCP), and self-esteem. Results indicated a negative relationship between the seriousness of both maternal and paternal alcoholism and s…
Development of the Affect for Communication Channels Scale
As computers have increasingly provided new channels of communication, scholars have taken an interest in computer-mediated communication (CMC) in general and the impact of personality traits and other antecedents of preference for face-to-face or computer channels. Research is hampered, however, by the lack of standardized measures of CMC-related concepts. Three studies (N = 914) were undertaken to develop and validate a measure of affect for us…
Fear and Competence in Japan and the U.S
This cross-cultural investigation examines the relationship between fear of negative evaluation, affect for communication channels (i.e., email versus face-to-face), and self-reports of communication competence. Participants from both Japan (N = 296) and the United States (N = 325) responded to three scales: Fear of Negative Evaluation (Leary, M. R. (1983 Leary, MR. 1983. Understanding social anxiety, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. [Google Scholar]) Un…
Mean Girls in College
Relational aggression involves manipulating others' social standing and reputation through communication behaviors that include gossiping, spreading rumors, name-calling, cruel teasing, and ostracizing. Using accounting as the theoretical framework, researchers analyzed transcripts from interviews with 30 college women to understand how they account for their relationally aggressive behaviors. Findings revealed five themes that reflected specific…
Cell Phone Usage Expectations, Closeness, and Relationship Satisfaction Between Parents and Their Emerging Adults in College
Frequent cell phone contact between emerging adults in college and parents raises the question of how they manage access and maintain control over cell phone use and how it affects their relationships. Emerging adults in college ( N = 207) completed measures of relational satisfaction and closeness, cell phone satisfaction, and cell phone rules for their parents. Participants reported cell phone rules about availability, repetitive contact, and r…
The Presence of Cell Phones in Romantic Partner Face-to-Face Interactions
Cell phones are essential in maintaining ties with romantic partners but they can also detract from quality time we spend with them. The purpose of this study was to examine expectations that romantic partners have of cell phone usage during time spent together and how they manage violations of expectations. Using Expectancy Violation Theory (EVT; Burgoon, 1978 Burgoon, J. K. (1978). A communication model of personal space violations: Explication…
Memory Craft
Seeking safer spaces
“I Just Like to Share My Life with My Partner
Participants (N = 312) in romantic relationships completed an online survey to determine common integrated phone activities, motivations for integrating phones into time together, and whether phone integration is associated with relationship satisfaction. The most frequent activities included showing social media posts, photos, and videos; showing texts; and involving the partner in video calls. Primary motivations for integrating phones into par…
Conversational partners’ interactions in response to co-present mobile phone usage
The goals of the two studies were to identify common communicative responses to co-present mobile phone usage and conversational partners’ reactions to that communication, and to determine whether individuals perceive their communicative responses as effective. Study 1 identified common participant responses and partner (i.e., phone user) reactions to those responses. In Study 2, researchers coded data from a new sample for these same responses a…
Understanding parents’ sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use through the lens of relational dialectics theory 2.0
With the development of social media, parents must figure out how to guide their children’s use or even whether to allow it. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 parents of daughters aged 12–18. Relational dialectics theory 2.0 was used to analyze how parents’ talk revealed their sense-making of their role in adolescent daughters’ social media use. Analysis revealed that parents voiced competing discourses pertaining to “…
Understanding Parents’ Information Seeking About Adolescents’ Use of Social Apps Using Theory of Motivated Information Management
Many parents have concerns about what their adolescent children are doing online, including potential risks of their tweens and teens encountering people who may want to harm them. Some fear they do not know what their children are doing online and may be motivated to seek information to alleviate their uncertainty. This study applied the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) to examine parents’ information management process amid fee…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Communication (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Phone (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Anxiety (3 works)