Kate Magsamen‐conrad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4513990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Magsamen‐conrad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Magsamen‐conrad |
| SIGNATURE | CONRAD K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7488-959X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dialogue on difference
Social influence and UTAUT in predicting digital immigrants’ technology use
This study explored how social norms around digital immigrants’ tablet adoption affect their new technology use using expanded social influence measures, including three types of social norms and subculture variables, along with the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) variables. We found that social influence took a different role from UTAUT variables in predicting digital immigrants’ tablet adoption before and after a four…
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system
Child‐welfare practices transformed drastically in 2020 after governments instituted quarantining and social‐distancing measures. Child visitation, mental health evaluations and treatment, and court hearings either ceased or only accessible via information communication technologies (ICTs). Peer‐reviewed published scholarship about technology use in child welfare is limited to voluntary, supplemental contexts and insufficient to understand the nu…
Technological capital within aging United States-based populations
Aging adults experience a disproportionate number of health-related problems. We applied a technological capital framework to assess how participation in web-delivered interventions is influenced by resources, perceived support, technology skills, and an overall environment conducive to making a change. Specifically, we conducted an in-depth examination of the uses and attitudes regarding online health information technologies among 41 middle-age…
Free Time For Wellness
Through this two-phased co-design process, we created an intervention with mothers in an urban community with the goal of using social media to bring them together for wellness, primarily through increased physical activity. Despite the co-design of this intervention with a specific community, there are some universal applications of our findings, and of the use of co-design workshops, to other settings
Mobile technology adoption across the lifespan
Cancer Communication and Partner Burden
This exploratory article applies Communication Privacy Management theory to an examination of cancer-related open communication, topic avoidance, and partner burden from the perspectives of patients and their partners. 2 models were proposed: 1 model considered participants' communication behaviors, and the other considered partners' perspectives of the other's topic avoidance. Participants include 95 dyads in which 1 partner had been diagnosed a…
Adolescent egocentrism and indoor tanning
This paper explored how imaginary audience and personal fable ideations contribute to adolescent indoor tanning intentions directly and indirectly through the way they shape pro-tanning attitude and association with peers who use tanning beds. Five hundred and ninety-five male ( n = 207) and female ( n = 387) adolescents, ranging in age from 11 to 19 ( M = 16.87; SD = 1.34) years completed a cross-sectional survey. Measures included imaginary aud…
Communication Efficacy and Couples' Cancer Management
The purpose of the present study was to apply Berg and Upchurch's (2007) developmental-conceptual model to understand better how couples cope with cancer. Specifically, we hypothesized a dyadic appraisal model in which proximal factors (relational quality), dyadic appraisal (prognosis uncertainty), and dyadic coping (communication efficacy) predicted adjustment (cancer management). The study was cross-sectional and included 83 dyads in which one …
The Brief Disclosure Intervention (BDI)
HIV+ African Americans face many challenges that may be addressed by increased social support. This manuscript presents the Brief Disclosure Intervention and explores strategies to tailor the intervention to facilitate disclosure, increase social support, and ameliorate health disparities among HIV+ African Americans. The disclosure decision-making model served as the theoretical framework. HIV+ African Americans (N = 43) in New Jersey participat…
“You can't tell anyone but …”
This three-part study examines how privacy rules function to protect shared information from further revelation. Communication Privacy Management served as a theoretical framework to investigate issues related to boundary management. In the pilot study, college students (N = 409) described privacy rules and their use, and participants reported not further revealing the information when privacy rules were expressed by disclosers. In Study 1, parti…
Relationship Characteristics Associated with the Experience of Hurt in Romantic Relationships
Journal Article Relationship Characteristics Associated with the Experience of Hurt in Romantic Relationships: A Test of the Relational Turbulence Model Get access Jennifer A. Theiss, Jennifer A. Theiss 1Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 1Corresponding author: Jennifer A. Theiss; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Leanne K. Knobloch, Leanne K. Knobloch 2Department of Com…
Relationship Characteristics Associated with the Experience of Hurt in Romantic Relationships
Journal Article Relationship Characteristics Associated with the Experience of Hurt in Romantic Relationships: A Test of the Relational Turbulence Model Get access Jennifer A. Theiss, Jennifer A. Theiss 1Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 1Corresponding author: Jennifer A. Theiss; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Leanne K. Knobloch, Leanne K. Knobloch 2Department of Com…
Communication Efficacy and Couples' Cancer Management
The purpose of the present study was to apply Berg and Upchurch's (2007) developmental-conceptual model to understand better how couples cope with cancer. Specifically, we hypothesized a dyadic appraisal model in which proximal factors (relational quality), dyadic appraisal (prognosis uncertainty), and dyadic coping (communication efficacy) predicted adjustment (cancer management). The study was cross-sectional and included 83 dyads in which one …
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system
Child‐welfare practices transformed drastically in 2020 after governments instituted quarantining and social‐distancing measures. Child visitation, mental health evaluations and treatment, and court hearings either ceased or only accessible via information communication technologies (ICTs). Peer‐reviewed published scholarship about technology use in child welfare is limited to voluntary, supplemental contexts and insufficient to understand the nu…
Relationship Characteristics Associated with the Experience of Hurt in Romantic Relationships
Journal Article Relationship Characteristics Associated with the Experience of Hurt in Romantic Relationships: A Test of the Relational Turbulence Model Get access Jennifer A. Theiss, Jennifer A. Theiss 1Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 1Corresponding author: Jennifer A. Theiss; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Leanne K. Knobloch, Leanne K. Knobloch 2Department of Com…
“You can't tell anyone but …”
This three-part study examines how privacy rules function to protect shared information from further revelation. Communication Privacy Management served as a theoretical framework to investigate issues related to boundary management. In the pilot study, college students (N = 409) described privacy rules and their use, and participants reported not further revealing the information when privacy rules were expressed by disclosers. In Study 1, parti…
The Brief Disclosure Intervention (BDI)
HIV+ African Americans face many challenges that may be addressed by increased social support. This manuscript presents the Brief Disclosure Intervention and explores strategies to tailor the intervention to facilitate disclosure, increase social support, and ameliorate health disparities among HIV+ African Americans. The disclosure decision-making model served as the theoretical framework. HIV+ African Americans (N = 43) in New Jersey participat…
Cancer Communication and Partner Burden
This exploratory article applies Communication Privacy Management theory to an examination of cancer-related open communication, topic avoidance, and partner burden from the perspectives of patients and their partners. 2 models were proposed: 1 model considered participants' communication behaviors, and the other considered partners' perspectives of the other's topic avoidance. Participants include 95 dyads in which 1 partner had been diagnosed a…
Adolescent egocentrism and indoor tanning
This paper explored how imaginary audience and personal fable ideations contribute to adolescent indoor tanning intentions directly and indirectly through the way they shape pro-tanning attitude and association with peers who use tanning beds. Five hundred and ninety-five male ( n = 207) and female ( n = 387) adolescents, ranging in age from 11 to 19 ( M = 16.87; SD = 1.34) years completed a cross-sectional survey. Measures included imaginary aud…
Communication Efficacy and Couples' Cancer Management
The purpose of the present study was to apply Berg and Upchurch's (2007) developmental-conceptual model to understand better how couples cope with cancer. Specifically, we hypothesized a dyadic appraisal model in which proximal factors (relational quality), dyadic appraisal (prognosis uncertainty), and dyadic coping (communication efficacy) predicted adjustment (cancer management). The study was cross-sectional and included 83 dyads in which one …
Mobile technology adoption across the lifespan
Technological capital within aging United States-based populations
Aging adults experience a disproportionate number of health-related problems. We applied a technological capital framework to assess how participation in web-delivered interventions is influenced by resources, perceived support, technology skills, and an overall environment conducive to making a change. Specifically, we conducted an in-depth examination of the uses and attitudes regarding online health information technologies among 41 middle-age…
Free Time For Wellness
Through this two-phased co-design process, we created an intervention with mothers in an urban community with the goal of using social media to bring them together for wellness, primarily through increased physical activity. Despite the co-design of this intervention with a specific community, there are some universal applications of our findings, and of the use of co-design workshops, to other settings
Social influence and UTAUT in predicting digital immigrants’ technology use
This study explored how social norms around digital immigrants’ tablet adoption affect their new technology use using expanded social influence measures, including three types of social norms and subculture variables, along with the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) variables. We found that social influence took a different role from UTAUT variables in predicting digital immigrants’ tablet adoption before and after a four…
Understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on families involved in the child welfare system
Child‐welfare practices transformed drastically in 2020 after governments instituted quarantining and social‐distancing measures. Child visitation, mental health evaluations and treatment, and court hearings either ceased or only accessible via information communication technologies (ICTs). Peer‐reviewed published scholarship about technology use in child welfare is limited to voluntary, supplemental contexts and insufficient to understand the nu…
Dialogue on difference
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Business (2 works)