Charles M Rossiter

Biographic Data

ID5509305
NAMECharles M Rossiter
GIVEN NAMESCharles M
FAMILY NAMERossiter
SIGNATUREROSSITER C M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
H-INDEX1

  • The Effectiveness of Two Kinds of Support Groups for Caregivers

    Ronald W Toseland, Charles M Rossiter et al.ARTICLESocial Service Review1989Cited by: 10References: 1

    Adult women caring for frail older relatives were assigned to peer-led or professionalled support groups or to a control condition. Compared to control participants, group participants experienced significantly greater improvements in their ability to cope with the stresses of caregiving. As with past research, few differences were found between participants in the peer-led and professional-led conditions

  • The effectiveness of three group intervention strategies to support family caregivers

    Ronald W Toseland, Charles M Rossiter et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1989References: 28

    Participants in two types of professionally-led groups and one peer-led group reported significant changes in personal problems related to caregiving as compared to controls. No significant changes were found on measures of psychological status and caregiving burden

  • The Validity of Communication Experiments Using Human Subjects

    Open AccessCharles M RossiterARTICLEHuman Communication Research1976

    Sixty-eight experiments published in 1973 and 1974 in the Journal of Communication, Speech Monographs, and Human Communication Research were analyzed. It was concluded that: reports of communication experimentation rarely provide sufficient information to allow critical evaluation of crucial aspects of validity: the validity of communication experimentation may be severely limited by the nature of subjects studied and by failures to eliminate, ac…

  • Defining “Therapeutic Communication”

    Open AccessCharles M RossiterARTICLEJournal of Communication1975

    Journal Article Defining “Therapeutic Communication” Get access Charles M. Rossiter, Jr. Charles M. Rossiter, Jr. 1Charles M. Rossiter, Jr., is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 1975, Pages 127–130, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1975.tb00614.x Published: 07 February 2…

  • The Effects of Three Types of Profane Language in Persuasive Messages

    Open AccessRobert N Bostrom, John R Baseheart et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication1973

    The present investigation was concerned with the effect of using profanity in a communication on receiver attitude change and speaker credibility ratings. Results of the investigation found no support for the superiority of a persuasive communication using profanity of a religious, excretory, or sexual nature over the same communication devoid of such profanity. It was found, however, that if one of the above three types of profanity is included …

  • Sex of the Speaker, Sex of the Listener, and Listening Comprehension

    Open AccessCharles M RossiterARTICLEJournal of Communication1972

    One hundred thirty-seven male and two hundred twenty-five female undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee heard recordings of 14 short, informative messages. Each message had been recorded by one of seven male or seven female upper level communication students. Following each message subjects responded to six multiple choice items about the content of the message. Analysis of variance showed no significant difference in listening s…