Jon A Hess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5875692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon A Hess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hess |
| SIGNATURE | HESS J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Creating inclusive classrooms in a time of anti-DEI initiatives
The past decade has seen significant changes in our country’s political landscape, some of which have spilled over into higher education. One change that has impacted millions of students is recent
Looking outside and addressing the crucial issues
Communication educators have done many things well, the cumulative impact of which has served our discipline well. However, there have also been areas where we could have done better. For this foru
Verbal Communication about Sex in Marriage
This study examined the vocabulary husbands and wives use for talking to each other about sex, and connections between language use and relational qualities. Married people (n = 293) responded to a questionnaire about their use of common sex-related terms and about several characteristics of their marriage: sexual communication satisfaction, relational satisfaction, and relational closeness. Cluster analysis based on reported use revealed that se…
How Much Do We Really know About Equity's Impact on Relational Communication? Issues in Measuring Equity in Communication Research
This study examined the question of whether the short global measure of equity that is typically used in communication research has fidelity to the manner in which equity was originally conceptualized. Participants were 100 pairs of college students in close relationships. They reported equity in their relationships using Hatfield's 1-item measure and also a component measure calculated with Walster et al.'s original formula for computing equity.…
Creating closeness
This project examined the strategies people use to create closeness in personal relationships and developed a measure of closeness that can be coupled with a measure of distance to provide a measure of affiliation (degree of closeness and distance in a relationship) that incorporates both closeness and distance. Study 1 used a factor analysis of tactics people can utilize to create closeness and found three underlying strategies: openness, attent…
Measuring distance in personal relationships
This article describes the development of an instrument that measures people's reported use of distancing tactics in personal relationships. Two versions of the Relational Distance Index (RDI) were developed, an 8‐itemversion and a 17‐item version. Four studies were conducted to examine the instrument's psychometric properties. The index exhibited a stable two‐factor structure (unfriendly and withdrawal), had acceptable internaland temporal relia…
Distance Regulation in Personal Relationships
Distance is a basic quality of all personal relationships, but little attempt has been made to develop a classification scheme for means of distance regulation that is parsimonious, conceptually structured, and representationally valid. This study reports the development of a model designed to meet those criteria. A classification scheme for distancing tactics was created by coding the narrative accounts of 185 respondents and comparing that sche…
Distance Regulation in Personal Relationships
Distance is a basic quality of all personal relationships, but little attempt has been made to develop a classification scheme for means of distance regulation that is parsimonious, conceptually structured, and representationally valid. This study reports the development of a model designed to meet those criteria. A classification scheme for distancing tactics was created by coding the narrative accounts of 185 respondents and comparing that sche…
Measuring distance in personal relationships
This article describes the development of an instrument that measures people's reported use of distancing tactics in personal relationships. Two versions of the Relational Distance Index (RDI) were developed, an 8‐itemversion and a 17‐item version. Four studies were conducted to examine the instrument's psychometric properties. The index exhibited a stable two‐factor structure (unfriendly and withdrawal), had acceptable internaland temporal relia…
Verbal Communication about Sex in Marriage
This study examined the vocabulary husbands and wives use for talking to each other about sex, and connections between language use and relational qualities. Married people (n = 293) responded to a questionnaire about their use of common sex-related terms and about several characteristics of their marriage: sexual communication satisfaction, relational satisfaction, and relational closeness. Cluster analysis based on reported use revealed that se…
How Much Do We Really know About Equity's Impact on Relational Communication? Issues in Measuring Equity in Communication Research
This study examined the question of whether the short global measure of equity that is typically used in communication research has fidelity to the manner in which equity was originally conceptualized. Participants were 100 pairs of college students in close relationships. They reported equity in their relationships using Hatfield's 1-item measure and also a component measure calculated with Walster et al.'s original formula for computing equity.…
Distance Regulation in Personal Relationships
Distance is a basic quality of all personal relationships, but little attempt has been made to develop a classification scheme for means of distance regulation that is parsimonious, conceptually structured, and representationally valid. This study reports the development of a model designed to meet those criteria. A classification scheme for distancing tactics was created by coding the narrative accounts of 185 respondents and comparing that sche…
Measuring distance in personal relationships
This article describes the development of an instrument that measures people's reported use of distancing tactics in personal relationships. Two versions of the Relational Distance Index (RDI) were developed, an 8‐itemversion and a 17‐item version. Four studies were conducted to examine the instrument's psychometric properties. The index exhibited a stable two‐factor structure (unfriendly and withdrawal), had acceptable internaland temporal relia…
Creating closeness
This project examined the strategies people use to create closeness in personal relationships and developed a measure of closeness that can be coupled with a measure of distance to provide a measure of affiliation (degree of closeness and distance in a relationship) that incorporates both closeness and distance. Study 1 used a factor analysis of tactics people can utilize to create closeness and found three underlying strategies: openness, attent…
How Much Do We Really know About Equity's Impact on Relational Communication? Issues in Measuring Equity in Communication Research
This study examined the question of whether the short global measure of equity that is typically used in communication research has fidelity to the manner in which equity was originally conceptualized. Participants were 100 pairs of college students in close relationships. They reported equity in their relationships using Hatfield's 1-item measure and also a component measure calculated with Walster et al.'s original formula for computing equity.…
Verbal Communication about Sex in Marriage
This study examined the vocabulary husbands and wives use for talking to each other about sex, and connections between language use and relational qualities. Married people (n = 293) responded to a questionnaire about their use of common sex-related terms and about several characteristics of their marriage: sexual communication satisfaction, relational satisfaction, and relational closeness. Cluster analysis based on reported use revealed that se…
Looking outside and addressing the crucial issues
Communication educators have done many things well, the cumulative impact of which has served our discipline well. However, there have also been areas where we could have done better. For this foru
Creating inclusive classrooms in a time of anti-DEI initiatives
The past decade has seen significant changes in our country’s political landscape, some of which have spilled over into higher education. One change that has impacted millions of students is recent
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Closeness (2 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (2 works)