J Gasiorek
Biographic Data
| ID | 5764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Gasiorek |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gasiorek |
| SIGNATURE | GASIOREK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8449-8867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Code‐Mixing in Cultural Educational Materials: Processing and Implications for Comprehension, Perceived Vitality, and Topic Interest
This study investigated how the inclusion of multilingual content (American English and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi) in short educational texts about Hawaiian cultural history affects students’ processing fluency, text comprehension, inferences about the vitality of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, and interest in learning more for readers who generally were not proficient in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. We conducted an experiment in which participants ( n = 458) were randomly assigned to…
Linguistic Stereotypes and Metastereotypes Among General and Southern American English Speakers: Content and Associations with Intergroup Anxiety
Self-identified General American English (GAE) and Southern American English (SAE) speakers reported their stereotypes toward their ingroup (endostereotypes) and the outgroup (exostereotypes); their beliefs about how the outgroup stereotypes their ingroup (metastereotypes); and their intergroup anxiety. Both groups stereotyped GAE speakers as more competent than warm and SAE speakers as more warm than competent. Examination of respondents’ metast…
Communication accommodation theory in quantitative research: Toward a standardized operationalization of core constructs
Spanish–English Code-Mixing in U.S. Higher Education: Testing the Use of “Spanglish” in University Materials at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
This experiment examined how university students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) responded to the use of “Spanglish,” or English-Spanish code-mixing, in written materials promoting university services. Consistent with predictions, the use of Spanglish reduced students’ processing fluency; contrary to predictions, the use of Spanglish did not prompt higher perceptions of inclusiveness or feeling welcome (relative to English-only texts) for…
Effects of the co-presence of multiple languages on university websites: Processing disruptions, evaluative consequences, and adaptation
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…
Using AI to expand the “Toolbox” for EAP writing instruction: Student experiences and perceptions of ChatGPT’s instructional potential
The recent advent of AI-based digital assistants such as ChatGPT offers the potential for a new tool in the instructional “toolbox” for EAP courses. We report on a retrospective survey of students’ experiences using ChatGPT in first- and second-year EAP core writing courses at a continental European university. Students reported that they saw ChatGPT as a social agent, had moderately fluent experiences interacting with it, and had moderately posi…
Code-Mixing in Promotional Materials for Tourism: Effects of Format on Processing Fluency and Interest in Cultural Activities
We examined the effects of English-Hawaiian code-mixing in promotional materials for tourist activities on audiences’ message processing and interest in the activities promoted, and whether these outcomes depended on the format of translations for code-mixed terms. We found that code-mixing both disrupted fluency for potential tourists—which indirectly diminished interest—and boosted their interest in advertised cultural activities. These counter…
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…
Why to speak French to French speakers? Outgroup vitality, motivation and linguistic accommodation in the Aosta Valley
Using a communication accommodation theory framework, the purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between perceived French vitality, cognitive and affective motivations for convergence, French skills, and convergence to French speakers among a group of young Italian speakers in the Aosta-Valley, Italy. Questionnaire data were collected among secondary school students in the city of Aosta ( N = 169). The findings indicated tha…
Effects of Task Performance Expectancy Violations on Processing Fluency and Speaker Evaluations
We examined how task performance expectancy violations influence speaker evaluations. Americans listened to a Japanese-accented speaker reading a story; completed a memory test on the story's content; indicated their expected performance on the test; and then received positive, negative, or no performance feedback. Positive feedback positively violated listeners’ performance expectancies and elicited higher fluency, a more positive affective reac…
Exploring linguistic markers, threat appraisals, and genetic variation during mixed‐sex couples' conflict conversations
How couples communicate during conflict interactions can have important implications for their relational well‐being. The theory of resilience and relational load provides a valuable lens for exploring the associations among couples' language use during conflict conversations and the extent to which such conversations are perceived as threatening to one's relationship, as well as whether genetic markers moderate such associations. Forty‐seven mix…
Effects of written code-mixing on processing fluency and perceptions of organizational inclusiveness
Participants read English-based online texts from fictional organizations that either included no code-mixing, Hawaiian words without glosses (i.e., parenthetical translations), or Hawaiian words with English glosses. Relative to no code-mixing, code-mixing without glosses disrupted processing fluency, leading participants to feel less welcome in the organization. Code-mixing with glosses did not disrupt fluency for participants from Hawai‘i, whe…
Perspective-taking and language competence as predictors of language accommodation by adolescents from monolingual and bilingual households
In this study, we examined how growing up in a bilingual (Swedish-Finnish) versus monolingual (Swedish only) household in a bilingual region of Finland affected adolescents’ language competence and language-related perspective-taking, and how these factors were related to adolescents’ language choice in interaction. Survey data were collected from 197 secondary school students in Finland, and analyzed via path modeling. Results supported predicti…
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)
Present-Future Self-Continuity and Intergenerational Communication as Predictors of Young Adults’ Evaluations of Older Adults and Attitudes Toward Aging
This study examined how young adults’ perceived similarity to their future self at age 70 ( present-future self-continuity) and experiences of environmental “chatter” about aging predicted their views of older adults, and their anxiety and efficacy related to aging. Experiencing nonaccommodation from older adults predicted greater anxiety, lower efficacy, and more negative views of older adults; greater present-future self-continuity predicted hi…
Interactional Adjustment: Three Approaches in Language and Social Psychology
Interactional adjustment refers to people’s tendency to adjust, or adapt, their communication behavior in social interactions. In recent years, three distinctive approaches to this topic that have featured prominently in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology are communication accommodation theory (CAT), language style matching (LSM), and discursive psychology using conversation analysis (DPCA). In this article, we provide a review of thes…
Older adults' perceptions of their own and their romantic partners' age-related communication and their associations with aging well, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use disorder symptoms
Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA), this study examined how older adults' and their romantic partners' age-related communication indirectly predicts older adults' perceptions of aging well, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use disorder (AUD) symptoms, via aging efficacy. Older adults were profiled as engaged, bantering, and disengaged agers. Romantic partners were profiled as engaged, bantering-high health, dise…
The Effects of Speaker Group Membership and Stereotypes on Responses to Accumulated Underaccommodation
This study explored the role of social group membership and stereotypes in evaluating accumulated underaccommodation (i.e., repeated, insufficiently adjusted communication). Participants ( N = 229) engaged in three tasks in which they received underaccommodative instructions from another individual, ostensibly a young adult or an older adult. Consistent with hypotheses, speakers’ social group membership predicted stereotype content (with older ad…
My competence, your competence, and the language we use: The moderating effect of interlocutor language constraint in bilingual accommodation
This paper examines the interactive effects of motives and contextual constraints predicting linguistic convergence with Finnish speakers among a small group of Swedish-speaking Finns. The data were collected among university students in Helsinki (N = 82). A moderated mediation analysis demonstrated the primacy of speakers' competence motive for linguistic convergence to Finnish. However, this relationship was moderated by interlocutors' competen…
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…
Vitality, Language Use, and Life Satisfaction: A Study of Bilingual Hungarian Adolescents Living in Romania
This study examined the relationship between objective and subjective vitality, in-group language use, and life satisfaction among two groups of bilingual Hungarians adolescents living in Romania: a low objective vitality group from Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, where Hungarians are the demographic minority, and a high objective vitality group from Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy, where Hungarians are the demographic majority. Consistent with predictio…
Effects of Inferred Motive on Evaluations of Nonaccommodative Communication
Journal Article Effects of Inferred Motive on Evaluations of Nonaccommodative Communication Get access Jessica Gasiorek, Jessica Gasiorek 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA 1Corresponding author: Jessica Gasiorek; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Howard Giles Howard Giles 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Se…
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…
The Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers: Accumulated Underaccommodation
Journal Article The Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers Get access Jessica Gasiorek, Jessica Gasiorek 1Department of Communicology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA, 1Corresponding author: Jessica Gasiorek; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marko Dragojevic Marko Dragojevic 2Department of Communication, University of…
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…
Accommodating new vistas
What do you do when you can't accommodate? Managing and evaluating problematic interactions in a multilingual medical environment
Celebrating Thirty Years of the JLSP: Analyses and Prospects
The Journal of Language and Social Psychology has been publishing articles for 30 years. In this article, three different kinds of analyses (viz., content codings, word clouds, and a textual procedure) examining trends over and between the three decades are reported. Drawing on these, future directions for the journal and the field in general are anticipated and proposed
Perspective-Taking, Inferred Motive, and Perceived Accommodation in Nonaccommodative Conversations
Recent extensions of communication accommodation theory have emphasized the importance of inferred motives in understanding and predicting responses to nonaccommodation. This study explored the association between perspective-taking, motive inferences, and perceptions of accommodation in recalled conversations ( N = 193). Higher levels of self-reported perspective-taking were found associated with more positively valenced motive inferences. Highe…
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…
Effects of written code-mixing on processing fluency and perceptions of organizational inclusiveness
Participants read English-based online texts from fictional organizations that either included no code-mixing, Hawaiian words without glosses (i.e., parenthetical translations), or Hawaiian words with English glosses. Relative to no code-mixing, code-mixing without glosses disrupted processing fluency, leading participants to feel less welcome in the organization. Code-mixing with glosses did not disrupt fluency for participants from Hawai‘i, whe…
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…
Vitality, Language Use, and Life Satisfaction: A Study of Bilingual Hungarian Adolescents Living in Romania
This study examined the relationship between objective and subjective vitality, in-group language use, and life satisfaction among two groups of bilingual Hungarians adolescents living in Romania: a low objective vitality group from Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, where Hungarians are the demographic minority, and a high objective vitality group from Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy, where Hungarians are the demographic majority. Consistent with predictio…
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…
Code-Mixing in Promotional Materials for Tourism: Effects of Format on Processing Fluency and Interest in Cultural Activities
We examined the effects of English-Hawaiian code-mixing in promotional materials for tourist activities on audiences’ message processing and interest in the activities promoted, and whether these outcomes depended on the format of translations for code-mixed terms. We found that code-mixing both disrupted fluency for potential tourists—which indirectly diminished interest—and boosted their interest in advertised cultural activities. These counter…
Older adults' perceptions of their own and their romantic partners' age-related communication and their associations with aging well, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use disorder symptoms
Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA), this study examined how older adults' and their romantic partners' age-related communication indirectly predicts older adults' perceptions of aging well, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use disorder (AUD) symptoms, via aging efficacy. Older adults were profiled as engaged, bantering, and disengaged agers. Romantic partners were profiled as engaged, bantering-high health, dise…
The Effects of Speaker Group Membership and Stereotypes on Responses to Accumulated Underaccommodation
This study explored the role of social group membership and stereotypes in evaluating accumulated underaccommodation (i.e., repeated, insufficiently adjusted communication). Participants ( N = 229) engaged in three tasks in which they received underaccommodative instructions from another individual, ostensibly a young adult or an older adult. Consistent with hypotheses, speakers’ social group membership predicted stereotype content (with older ad…
The moderating effect of valenced contact: Slovak language media use, acculturation and L2 confidence among young Hungarian speakers
Integrating the tenets of the social context model of L2 acquisition with insights from the parasocial contact hypothesis, the present paper addresses the role of mass media in L2 acquisition and acculturation among young Hungarian speakers in Slovakia. Questionnaire data were collected among Hungarian-speaking secondary school students (N = 310). The results indicated that integrative orientation guided individuals to seek media content in L2, a…
Modeling Motives for Bilingual Accommodation by Minority and Majority Language Speakers
Within the framework of communication accommodation theory, this study examined how self-reported motives for linguistic convergence and divergence by speakers of majority and minority languages (in demographic terms) predict language use in Finland, a bilingual country. In so doing, we also offer a novel approach to modeling motivation for linguistic accommodation. For majority language speakers, motives to converge, but not motives to diverge, …
Spanish–English Code-Mixing in U.S. Higher Education: Testing the Use of “Spanglish” in University Materials at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
This experiment examined how university students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) responded to the use of “Spanglish,” or English-Spanish code-mixing, in written materials promoting university services. Consistent with predictions, the use of Spanglish reduced students’ processing fluency; contrary to predictions, the use of Spanglish did not prompt higher perceptions of inclusiveness or feeling welcome (relative to English-only texts) for…
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…
Present-Future Self-Continuity and Intergenerational Communication as Predictors of Young Adults’ Evaluations of Older Adults and Attitudes Toward Aging
This study examined how young adults’ perceived similarity to their future self at age 70 ( present-future self-continuity) and experiences of environmental “chatter” about aging predicted their views of older adults, and their anxiety and efficacy related to aging. Experiencing nonaccommodation from older adults predicted greater anxiety, lower efficacy, and more negative views of older adults; greater present-future self-continuity predicted hi…
Epilogue: Engaging Identity and Foregrounding Context in Health Communication Research
Using a language and social psychological approach, the articles in this special issue explore complex health communication issues from a variety of perspectives. Despite their considerable diversity, however, all these articles highlight the importance of two constructs that are often underappreciated in health communication research: identity and context. Across a range of domains, these studies consistently show how identity concerns can influ…
Parasite primes make foreign-accented English sound more distant to people who are disgusted by pathogens (but not by sex or morality)
Celebrating Thirty Years of the JLSP: Analyses and Prospects
The Journal of Language and Social Psychology has been publishing articles for 30 years. In this article, three different kinds of analyses (viz., content codings, word clouds, and a textual procedure) examining trends over and between the three decades are reported. Drawing on these, future directions for the journal and the field in general are anticipated and proposed
Effects of Inferred Motive on Evaluations of Nonaccommodative Communication
Journal Article Effects of Inferred Motive on Evaluations of Nonaccommodative Communication Get access Jessica Gasiorek, Jessica Gasiorek 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA 1Corresponding author: Jessica Gasiorek; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Howard Giles Howard Giles 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Se…
Vitalidad etnolingüística, medios de comunicación e identidad étnica. Un estudio con grupos indígenas de Chiapas (Mexico) [Ethnolinguistic vitality, mass media, and ethnic identity: [A study with indi…
This study is the first exploration of television use and program selection by indigenous groups in Chiapas (Mexico); more specifically, how members of these groups select specific media messages for reasons of ethnicity, and how this is related to social mobility strategies is examined. Data from 173 indigenous students of the Intercultural University of Chiapas indicated that watching television and selecting programs on the basis of their ethn…
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 do you do when you can't accommodate? Managing and evaluating problematic interactions in a multilingual medical environment
Accommodating new vistas
Epilogue: Engaging Identity and Foregrounding Context in Health Communication Research
Using a language and social psychological approach, the articles in this special issue explore complex health communication issues from a variety of perspectives. Despite their considerable diversity, however, all these articles highlight the importance of two constructs that are often underappreciated in health communication research: identity and context. Across a range of domains, these studies consistently show how identity concerns can influ…
Perspective-Taking, Inferred Motive, and Perceived Accommodation in Nonaccommodative Conversations
Recent extensions of communication accommodation theory have emphasized the importance of inferred motives in understanding and predicting responses to nonaccommodation. This study explored the association between perspective-taking, motive inferences, and perceptions of accommodation in recalled conversations ( N = 193). Higher levels of self-reported perspective-taking were found associated with more positively valenced motive inferences. Highe…
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…
The moderating effect of valenced contact: Slovak language media use, acculturation and L2 confidence among young Hungarian speakers
Integrating the tenets of the social context model of L2 acquisition with insights from the parasocial contact hypothesis, the present paper addresses the role of mass media in L2 acquisition and acculturation among young Hungarian speakers in Slovakia. Questionnaire data were collected among Hungarian-speaking secondary school students (N = 310). The results indicated that integrative orientation guided individuals to seek media content in L2, a…
Modeling Motives for Bilingual Accommodation by Minority and Majority Language Speakers
Within the framework of communication accommodation theory, this study examined how self-reported motives for linguistic convergence and divergence by speakers of majority and minority languages (in demographic terms) predict language use in Finland, a bilingual country. In so doing, we also offer a novel approach to modeling motivation for linguistic accommodation. For majority language speakers, motives to converge, but not motives to diverge, …
Little chance for divergence: The role of interlocutor language constraint in online bilingual accommodation
Drawing on communication accommodation theory, the present paper explored how affective (i.e. identity related) and cognitive (i.e. comprehension related) motives drive young Swedish‐speaking Finns to use Swedish in online communication when interacting with Finnish speakers. Questionnaire data were collected among Swedish‐speaking secondary school students ( N = 124). A Bayesian moderated mediation revealed that the use of Swedish was guided bot…
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 Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers: Accumulated Underaccommodation
Journal Article The Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers Get access Jessica Gasiorek, Jessica Gasiorek 1Department of Communicology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA, 1Corresponding author: Jessica Gasiorek; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marko Dragojevic Marko Dragojevic 2Department of Communication, University of…
My competence, your competence, and the language we use: The moderating effect of interlocutor language constraint in bilingual accommodation
This paper examines the interactive effects of motives and contextual constraints predicting linguistic convergence with Finnish speakers among a small group of Swedish-speaking Finns. The data were collected among university students in Helsinki (N = 82). A moderated mediation analysis demonstrated the primacy of speakers' competence motive for linguistic convergence to Finnish. However, this relationship was moderated by interlocutors' competen…
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…
Vitality, Language Use, and Life Satisfaction: A Study of Bilingual Hungarian Adolescents Living in Romania
This study examined the relationship between objective and subjective vitality, in-group language use, and life satisfaction among two groups of bilingual Hungarians adolescents living in Romania: a low objective vitality group from Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, where Hungarians are the demographic minority, and a high objective vitality group from Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy, where Hungarians are the demographic majority. Consistent with predictio…
The Effects of Speaker Group Membership and Stereotypes on Responses to Accumulated Underaccommodation
This study explored the role of social group membership and stereotypes in evaluating accumulated underaccommodation (i.e., repeated, insufficiently adjusted communication). Participants ( N = 229) engaged in three tasks in which they received underaccommodative instructions from another individual, ostensibly a young adult or an older adult. Consistent with hypotheses, speakers’ social group membership predicted stereotype content (with older ad…
Older adults' perceptions of their own and their romantic partners' age-related communication and their associations with aging well, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use disorder symptoms
Guided by the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA), this study examined how older adults' and their romantic partners' age-related communication indirectly predicts older adults' perceptions of aging well, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use disorder (AUD) symptoms, via aging efficacy. Older adults were profiled as engaged, bantering, and disengaged agers. Romantic partners were profiled as engaged, bantering-high health, dise…
Interactional Adjustment: Three Approaches in Language and Social Psychology
Interactional adjustment refers to people’s tendency to adjust, or adapt, their communication behavior in social interactions. In recent years, three distinctive approaches to this topic that have featured prominently in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology are communication accommodation theory (CAT), language style matching (LSM), and discursive psychology using conversation analysis (DPCA). In this article, we provide a review of thes…
Perspective-taking and language competence as predictors of language accommodation by adolescents from monolingual and bilingual households
In this study, we examined how growing up in a bilingual (Swedish-Finnish) versus monolingual (Swedish only) household in a bilingual region of Finland affected adolescents’ language competence and language-related perspective-taking, and how these factors were related to adolescents’ language choice in interaction. Survey data were collected from 197 secondary school students in Finland, and analyzed via path modeling. Results supported predicti…
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)
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