Craig Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0596-563X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Communication accommodation theory in quantitative research: Toward a standardized operationalization of core constructs
Implications of gender metastereotypes for addressing sexist behavior
Women often experience competence questioning communication (CQC), in which their contributions are overlooked or credit is misdirected to a male colleague. We examine whether gender metastereotypes-the stereotypes that women believe men hold of women, and the stereotypes men believe women hold of men-predict responses to sexism in the workplace. Specifically, through vignette-based experiments, we examine whether women's and men's willingness to…
Do Imagined Intergroup Contact Interventions and Metastereotyping Processes Interact to Predict Expectations for Future Inter-Age Interactions
We examined whether imagining intergenerational contact and activating positive aging metastereotypes could enhance the quality of contact young adult participants anticipated having with older persons and attenuate expectations of communicative nonaccommodation by older adults. We also investigated the role of intergenerational trust in these processes. By increasing perceived trustworthiness, imagining intergenerational contact made young adult…
Young adults' experiences of ageism in the United Kingdom: Forms, sources, and associations with intergenerational attitudes
Although previous research suggests that a large proportion of young adults experience ageism, information is scarce regarding exactly how often they encounter different forms of age-based discrimination. To address this lacuna, we recruited young adults from the U.K. to complete four weekly surveys in which they reported the number of days during the preceding week on which they experienced various forms of ageism. More than three-quarters of ou…
Implications of Older Adults’ Attributions for Young Adults’ Attitudes to Aging: A Vignette Study
The present study was grounded in the revised communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) and examined whether brief, passing remarks made by older adults about aging influence both young adults’ aging efficacy and their expectations regarding aging. Young adult participants ( n = 322) were randomly assigned to read a single vignette. In the vignette an older adult invoked either a negative age-based reason, a non-age-based reason, or…
Associations between Parents’ Negative Talk about Aging and Young Adults’ Negative Affect and Efficacy Related to Aging
Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging, this study examined the relationship between the frequency of parents’ negative talk about aging (i.e., complaints about age and use of age-based excuses) and young adult children’s negative affect and efficacy about aging. It also investigated the degree to which a family’s general tendency to engage in open communication affected these outcomes. Cross-sectional survey data indicated…
Effects of Stereotype-Focused Imagined Contact on Young Adults’ Intentions for Intergenerational Interaction
Findings indicate the viability of a simple and accessible intervention to improve intergenerational relations, which can be tailored to address different goals (e.g., encouraging intergenerational friendships vs. encouraging support for equal rights of older members of the workforce)
Does perceived normativity of intergenerational contact enhance the effects of imagined intergenerational contact
Two experiments investigated effects of imagined intergroup contact (IIC) on young adults’ stereotypical perceptions of and intention to communicate with older adults. Both studies tested a third-person variant of IIC (extended IIC). Also, Study 1 explicitly manipulated the perceived normativity of intergenerational contact by providing relevant information, and Study 2 implicitly manipulated perceived normativity via task repetition. In Study 1,…
Implications of metastereotypes for attitudes toward intergenerational contact
Metastereotypes, the stereotypes a person believes that those outside of their group hold of a social group to which (s)he belongs, have been implicated in problematic intergroup relationships and communication. Using an online survey administered to participants (aged 18–30, or 65 and older) recruited via Amazon’s MTurk (final N = 311), we tested the degree to which eliciting positive versus negative age-based metastereotypes affected perception…
Communication and successful aging: Testing alternative conceptualizations of uncertainty
The communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA), which theorizes how people’s communication can influence their experiences of successful aging, takes as axiomatic that aging involves uncertainty. In two studies, with data from the U.S. and the U.K., we compared the viability of two conceptualizations of uncertainty about aging in the CEMSA: the model’s original operationalization, uncertainty discrepancy, and an alternative, the perc…
A Life-Span Approach to Children-In-Law’s Perceptions of Parent-In-Law Communication
Relationships between children-in-law (CIL) and parents-in-law (PIL) can be enduring sources of delight or distress that influence the quality of spousal relationships and grandparent-grandchild ties. Little research, however, examines CIL perceptions of in-law relationships (ILRs) beyond the newlywed years. Drawing on the life course perspective and socioemotional selectivity theory, we hypothesized that marital duration would predict how freque…
Depressive symptoms, excessive reassurance seeking, and relationship maintenance
Using a sample of 143 heterosexual, ethnically diverse couples, we explored the consequences of individuals' depressive symptomology and excessive reassurance seeking (ERS) for (a) the efforts they and their partners make to maintain their relationship and (b) the satisfaction reported by each relational party. Data were analyzed using an extension of the actor-partner interdependence model. We found actor effects of depression on satisfaction an…
The Role of Shared Family Identity and Future Time Perspective in Shaping the Outcomes of Grandparents’ Positive and Negative Social Behaviors
Scholars have begun to recognize that negative social encounters may have more profound effects on individuals than do positive social encounters. This study analyzes survey responses provided by 195 young adults regarding the kinds of positive and negative social behaviors they experience during interactions with target grandparents. Results suggest that the nature of grandchildren’s evaluations of grandparent behavior and the impact of grandpar…
The Role of Communication in Aging Well: Introducing the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging
This study introduces the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA). The CEMSA is predicated on the belief that individuals have agency over the aging process and, through communicative practices, construct ecologies within which they are able to age more successfully. According to the model, uncertainty about aging stimulates affective and communicative responses, and, in turn, perceived efficacy to manage growing older. These feel…
What Does Successful Aging Sound Like? Profiling Communication About Aging: Profiling Communication About Aging
We draw on the recently developed communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) to examine how adults communicate about aging and how these communication patterns relate to experiences of successful aging. Using latent class analysis across 2 datasets collected in New Zealand and the United States, we identify 3 distinct classes of agers (disengaged, engaged, and bantering) defined by different profiles of communication behavior. Across…
Politeness Strategies in Imagined Conversation Openers About Eldercare
In the United States, many adult children and their aging parents reach the point when it is necessary to address future care needs of the parent. Given that the prevailing culture values independence over interdependence, discussing future care needs can be face threatening. Therefore, an examination of how adult children approach such conversations and manage face needs is an important first step toward understanding what makes these conversati…
Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to adult children’s discussions of caregiving with aging parents
Adult children are perhaps the most important source of eldercare for aging parents. Unfortunately, they rarely discuss potential eldercare arrangements with their parents prior to adopting a caregiving role, which may make adapting to the parent’s transition to dependency all the more challenging. The Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) is a social-psychological framework that has had success predicting information-seeking decision…
Responses of Young Adult Grandchildren to Grandparents’ Painful Self-Disclosures
This study examined grandchildren’s relational and communicative responses to grandparents’ painful self-disclosures (PSDs). From the perspective of young adult grandchildren ( N = 297), discomfort with PSDs is more significant in differentiating positive and negative aspects of the grandparent—grandchild relationship than simply the occurrence of such disclosures. Furthermore, results reveal that the family communication environment and communic…
Understanding Communication and Aging: Developing Knowledge and Awareness
Harwood has provided a text that will be appreciated both by instructors teaching courses in communication and aging and the students who enroll in those classes. Instructors will be thankful for a
Effectiveness of a Videotaped Behavioral Intervention in Reducing Anxiety in Emergency Oral Surgery Patients
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a videotaped behavioral treatment program in reducing dental anxiety in emergency oral surgery patients. It compared a videotaped placebo program and a no-treatment control condition. Anxiety, measured for two periods during the study (an anticipatory phase just before oral surgery and a post oral surgery phase), was evaluated by means of self-report, physiological, and behavioral observation measures. Re…
The Role of Communication in Aging Well: Introducing the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging
This study introduces the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA). The CEMSA is predicated on the belief that individuals have agency over the aging process and, through communicative practices, construct ecologies within which they are able to age more successfully. According to the model, uncertainty about aging stimulates affective and communicative responses, and, in turn, perceived efficacy to manage growing older. These feel…
Implications of metastereotypes for attitudes toward intergenerational contact
Metastereotypes, the stereotypes a person believes that those outside of their group hold of a social group to which (s)he belongs, have been implicated in problematic intergroup relationships and communication. Using an online survey administered to participants (aged 18–30, or 65 and older) recruited via Amazon’s MTurk (final N = 311), we tested the degree to which eliciting positive versus negative age-based metastereotypes affected perception…
Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to adult children’s discussions of caregiving with aging parents
Adult children are perhaps the most important source of eldercare for aging parents. Unfortunately, they rarely discuss potential eldercare arrangements with their parents prior to adopting a caregiving role, which may make adapting to the parent’s transition to dependency all the more challenging. The Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) is a social-psychological framework that has had success predicting information-seeking decision…
What Does Successful Aging Sound Like? Profiling Communication About Aging: Profiling Communication About Aging
We draw on the recently developed communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) to examine how adults communicate about aging and how these communication patterns relate to experiences of successful aging. Using latent class analysis across 2 datasets collected in New Zealand and the United States, we identify 3 distinct classes of agers (disengaged, engaged, and bantering) defined by different profiles of communication behavior. Across…
Young adults' experiences of ageism in the United Kingdom: Forms, sources, and associations with intergenerational attitudes
Although previous research suggests that a large proportion of young adults experience ageism, information is scarce regarding exactly how often they encounter different forms of age-based discrimination. To address this lacuna, we recruited young adults from the U.K. to complete four weekly surveys in which they reported the number of days during the preceding week on which they experienced various forms of ageism. More than three-quarters of ou…
Communication and successful aging: Testing alternative conceptualizations of uncertainty
The communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA), which theorizes how people’s communication can influence their experiences of successful aging, takes as axiomatic that aging involves uncertainty. In two studies, with data from the U.S. and the U.K., we compared the viability of two conceptualizations of uncertainty about aging in the CEMSA: the model’s original operationalization, uncertainty discrepancy, and an alternative, the perc…
The Role of Shared Family Identity and Future Time Perspective in Shaping the Outcomes of Grandparents’ Positive and Negative Social Behaviors
Scholars have begun to recognize that negative social encounters may have more profound effects on individuals than do positive social encounters. This study analyzes survey responses provided by 195 young adults regarding the kinds of positive and negative social behaviors they experience during interactions with target grandparents. Results suggest that the nature of grandchildren’s evaluations of grandparent behavior and the impact of grandpar…
Responses of Young Adult Grandchildren to Grandparents’ Painful Self-Disclosures
This study examined grandchildren’s relational and communicative responses to grandparents’ painful self-disclosures (PSDs). From the perspective of young adult grandchildren ( N = 297), discomfort with PSDs is more significant in differentiating positive and negative aspects of the grandparent—grandchild relationship than simply the occurrence of such disclosures. Furthermore, results reveal that the family communication environment and communic…
Depressive symptoms, excessive reassurance seeking, and relationship maintenance
Using a sample of 143 heterosexual, ethnically diverse couples, we explored the consequences of individuals' depressive symptomology and excessive reassurance seeking (ERS) for (a) the efforts they and their partners make to maintain their relationship and (b) the satisfaction reported by each relational party. Data were analyzed using an extension of the actor-partner interdependence model. We found actor effects of depression on satisfaction an…
Does perceived normativity of intergenerational contact enhance the effects of imagined intergenerational contact
Two experiments investigated effects of imagined intergroup contact (IIC) on young adults’ stereotypical perceptions of and intention to communicate with older adults. Both studies tested a third-person variant of IIC (extended IIC). Also, Study 1 explicitly manipulated the perceived normativity of intergenerational contact by providing relevant information, and Study 2 implicitly manipulated perceived normativity via task repetition. In Study 1,…
A Life-Span Approach to Children-In-Law’s Perceptions of Parent-In-Law Communication
Relationships between children-in-law (CIL) and parents-in-law (PIL) can be enduring sources of delight or distress that influence the quality of spousal relationships and grandparent-grandchild ties. Little research, however, examines CIL perceptions of in-law relationships (ILRs) beyond the newlywed years. Drawing on the life course perspective and socioemotional selectivity theory, we hypothesized that marital duration would predict how freque…
Do Imagined Intergroup Contact Interventions and Metastereotyping Processes Interact to Predict Expectations for Future Inter-Age Interactions
We examined whether imagining intergenerational contact and activating positive aging metastereotypes could enhance the quality of contact young adult participants anticipated having with older persons and attenuate expectations of communicative nonaccommodation by older adults. We also investigated the role of intergenerational trust in these processes. By increasing perceived trustworthiness, imagining intergenerational contact made young adult…
Associations between Parents’ Negative Talk about Aging and Young Adults’ Negative Affect and Efficacy Related to Aging
Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging, this study examined the relationship between the frequency of parents’ negative talk about aging (i.e., complaints about age and use of age-based excuses) and young adult children’s negative affect and efficacy about aging. It also investigated the degree to which a family’s general tendency to engage in open communication affected these outcomes. Cross-sectional survey data indicated…
Politeness Strategies in Imagined Conversation Openers About Eldercare
In the United States, many adult children and their aging parents reach the point when it is necessary to address future care needs of the parent. Given that the prevailing culture values independence over interdependence, discussing future care needs can be face threatening. Therefore, an examination of how adult children approach such conversations and manage face needs is an important first step toward understanding what makes these conversati…
Effectiveness of a Videotaped Behavioral Intervention in Reducing Anxiety in Emergency Oral Surgery Patients
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a videotaped behavioral treatment program in reducing dental anxiety in emergency oral surgery patients. It compared a videotaped placebo program and a no-treatment control condition. Anxiety, measured for two periods during the study (an anticipatory phase just before oral surgery and a post oral surgery phase), was evaluated by means of self-report, physiological, and behavioral observation measures. Re…
Understanding Communication and Aging: Developing Knowledge and Awareness
Harwood has provided a text that will be appreciated both by instructors teaching courses in communication and aging and the students who enroll in those classes. Instructors will be thankful for a
Responses of Young Adult Grandchildren to Grandparents’ Painful Self-Disclosures
This study examined grandchildren’s relational and communicative responses to grandparents’ painful self-disclosures (PSDs). From the perspective of young adult grandchildren ( N = 297), discomfort with PSDs is more significant in differentiating positive and negative aspects of the grandparent—grandchild relationship than simply the occurrence of such disclosures. Furthermore, results reveal that the family communication environment and communic…
Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to adult children’s discussions of caregiving with aging parents
Adult children are perhaps the most important source of eldercare for aging parents. Unfortunately, they rarely discuss potential eldercare arrangements with their parents prior to adopting a caregiving role, which may make adapting to the parent’s transition to dependency all the more challenging. The Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) is a social-psychological framework that has had success predicting information-seeking decision…
Politeness Strategies in Imagined Conversation Openers About Eldercare
In the United States, many adult children and their aging parents reach the point when it is necessary to address future care needs of the parent. Given that the prevailing culture values independence over interdependence, discussing future care needs can be face threatening. Therefore, an examination of how adult children approach such conversations and manage face needs is an important first step toward understanding what makes these conversati…
The Role of Shared Family Identity and Future Time Perspective in Shaping the Outcomes of Grandparents’ Positive and Negative Social Behaviors
Scholars have begun to recognize that negative social encounters may have more profound effects on individuals than do positive social encounters. This study analyzes survey responses provided by 195 young adults regarding the kinds of positive and negative social behaviors they experience during interactions with target grandparents. Results suggest that the nature of grandchildren’s evaluations of grandparent behavior and the impact of grandpar…
The Role of Communication in Aging Well: Introducing the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging
This study introduces the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA). The CEMSA is predicated on the belief that individuals have agency over the aging process and, through communicative practices, construct ecologies within which they are able to age more successfully. According to the model, uncertainty about aging stimulates affective and communicative responses, and, in turn, perceived efficacy to manage growing older. These feel…
What Does Successful Aging Sound Like? Profiling Communication About Aging: Profiling Communication About Aging
We draw on the recently developed communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) to examine how adults communicate about aging and how these communication patterns relate to experiences of successful aging. Using latent class analysis across 2 datasets collected in New Zealand and the United States, we identify 3 distinct classes of agers (disengaged, engaged, and bantering) defined by different profiles of communication behavior. Across…
A Life-Span Approach to Children-In-Law’s Perceptions of Parent-In-Law Communication
Relationships between children-in-law (CIL) and parents-in-law (PIL) can be enduring sources of delight or distress that influence the quality of spousal relationships and grandparent-grandchild ties. Little research, however, examines CIL perceptions of in-law relationships (ILRs) beyond the newlywed years. Drawing on the life course perspective and socioemotional selectivity theory, we hypothesized that marital duration would predict how freque…
Depressive symptoms, excessive reassurance seeking, and relationship maintenance
Using a sample of 143 heterosexual, ethnically diverse couples, we explored the consequences of individuals' depressive symptomology and excessive reassurance seeking (ERS) for (a) the efforts they and their partners make to maintain their relationship and (b) the satisfaction reported by each relational party. Data were analyzed using an extension of the actor-partner interdependence model. We found actor effects of depression on satisfaction an…
Implications of metastereotypes for attitudes toward intergenerational contact
Metastereotypes, the stereotypes a person believes that those outside of their group hold of a social group to which (s)he belongs, have been implicated in problematic intergroup relationships and communication. Using an online survey administered to participants (aged 18–30, or 65 and older) recruited via Amazon’s MTurk (final N = 311), we tested the degree to which eliciting positive versus negative age-based metastereotypes affected perception…
Communication and successful aging: Testing alternative conceptualizations of uncertainty
The communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA), which theorizes how people’s communication can influence their experiences of successful aging, takes as axiomatic that aging involves uncertainty. In two studies, with data from the U.S. and the U.K., we compared the viability of two conceptualizations of uncertainty about aging in the CEMSA: the model’s original operationalization, uncertainty discrepancy, and an alternative, the perc…
Does perceived normativity of intergenerational contact enhance the effects of imagined intergenerational contact
Two experiments investigated effects of imagined intergroup contact (IIC) on young adults’ stereotypical perceptions of and intention to communicate with older adults. Both studies tested a third-person variant of IIC (extended IIC). Also, Study 1 explicitly manipulated the perceived normativity of intergenerational contact by providing relevant information, and Study 2 implicitly manipulated perceived normativity via task repetition. In Study 1,…
Associations between Parents’ Negative Talk about Aging and Young Adults’ Negative Affect and Efficacy Related to Aging
Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging, this study examined the relationship between the frequency of parents’ negative talk about aging (i.e., complaints about age and use of age-based excuses) and young adult children’s negative affect and efficacy about aging. It also investigated the degree to which a family’s general tendency to engage in open communication affected these outcomes. Cross-sectional survey data indicated…
Effects of Stereotype-Focused Imagined Contact on Young Adults’ Intentions for Intergenerational Interaction
Findings indicate the viability of a simple and accessible intervention to improve intergenerational relations, which can be tailored to address different goals (e.g., encouraging intergenerational friendships vs. encouraging support for equal rights of older members of the workforce)
Implications of Older Adults’ Attributions for Young Adults’ Attitudes to Aging: A Vignette Study
The present study was grounded in the revised communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) and examined whether brief, passing remarks made by older adults about aging influence both young adults’ aging efficacy and their expectations regarding aging. Young adult participants ( n = 322) were randomly assigned to read a single vignette. In the vignette an older adult invoked either a negative age-based reason, a non-age-based reason, or…
Do Imagined Intergroup Contact Interventions and Metastereotyping Processes Interact to Predict Expectations for Future Inter-Age Interactions
We examined whether imagining intergenerational contact and activating positive aging metastereotypes could enhance the quality of contact young adult participants anticipated having with older persons and attenuate expectations of communicative nonaccommodation by older adults. We also investigated the role of intergenerational trust in these processes. By increasing perceived trustworthiness, imagining intergenerational contact made young adult…
Young adults' experiences of ageism in the United Kingdom: Forms, sources, and associations with intergenerational attitudes
Although previous research suggests that a large proportion of young adults experience ageism, information is scarce regarding exactly how often they encounter different forms of age-based discrimination. To address this lacuna, we recruited young adults from the U.K. to complete four weekly surveys in which they reported the number of days during the preceding week on which they experienced various forms of ageism. More than three-quarters of ou…
Communication accommodation theory in quantitative research: Toward a standardized operationalization of core constructs
Implications of gender metastereotypes for addressing sexist behavior
Women often experience competence questioning communication (CQC), in which their contributions are overlooked or credit is misdirected to a male colleague. We examine whether gender metastereotypes-the stereotypes that women believe men hold of women, and the stereotypes men believe women hold of men-predict responses to sexism in the workplace. Specifically, through vignette-based experiments, we examine whether women's and men's willingness to…
Psychology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Young adult (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works)