Jennifer L Bevan
Biographic Data
| ID | 757090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Bevan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bevan |
| SIGNATURE | BEVAN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chapman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2772-6269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
She Was My Egg Donor, Not My Mom”
This study employs attribution theory to examine how adult daughters from low‐income backgrounds perceive and manage low‐quality daughter‐mother relationships. Using in‐depth interviews and flexible coding, we analyzed how daughters ( n = 42) attribute locus, responsibility, specificity, and stability. Daughters often located control internally within their mothers, citing enduring traits as sources of conflict while noting external influences su…
Using the Disclosure Decision-Making Model to Examine Patient Confusion Disclosure
The disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) has been heavily explored within its initially proposed scope. Fewer known studies have tested the DD-MM's boundaries by assessing the model's application beyond close personal relationships, and none have explored it in a context outside of long-term health conditions. The current study investigates the disclosure decision-making process of patients to their healthcare providers when they experience s…
Let’s Talk About Death
The disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) explains an individual's decision-making process regarding whether they disclose personal health information to others and consists of three tenets (i.e., assessment of information, assessment of receiver, and disclosure efficacy). Whereas traditional DD-MM applications have focused on physiological disclosures (e.g., HIV diagnosis), this study investigates the non-visible, non-diagnosis context of dis…
Why do people share social networking site passwords with their romantic partners? The antecedents and explanations for social networking site password sharing in romantic relationships
Our study examined antecedents and explanations for sharing social networking site passwords with romantic partners. U.S. adults currently or recently in romantic relationships (N = 948) completed an online survey assessing relationship characteristics and reasons for password sharing. Results indicated that relationship satisfaction, relationship length, and social networking site jealousy predicted password sharing. Younger participants were al…
A descriptive literature review of early research on Covid-19 and close relationships
This in-depth critical review investigates the impact of COVID-19 on personal relationships from the start of the pandemic in early 2020 to September 2021. Research examining six themes are identified and described in detail: the impact of COVID-19 on (1) family and intimate relationships; (2) LGBTQ+ relationships; (3) how COVID-19 is linked to technologically mediated communication and personal relationships; (4) potential shifts in sexual behav…
Some days are much holier than others”
When intrafaith couples' religion strictly prohibits premarital sexual intercourse, negotiating sexual intimacy can become a multilayered process of identity negotiation that compounds the difficulty of sexual communication. Through the lens of relational turbulence theory, this study explored how devout Christian couples negotiate sexual intimacy by reanalyzing qualitative interview data the first author collected in 2017 from 16 self‐identified…
Ambiguous loss, stress, communal coping, and resilience
K-12 teachers throughout the United States have experienced unprecedented changes to their roles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, creating ambiguity and stress. This study took a mixed-methods approach to investigate K-12 teachers’ experiences coping with stress during the pandemic. The investigation involved two phases of data collection, beginning with formative focus groups that informed the development of an online survey in the second phase. Tw…
Romantic Partner Interference and Psychological Reactance in the Context of Caregiving for an Aging Family Member
Negotiating romantic relational dynamics is inherent to family caregiving situations, which continue to be on the rise in the United States. However, despite evidence that family caregiving duties are linked to a variety of negative relational outcomes, limited research examines communication processes that contribute to or alleviate the burden of caregiver duties on romantic relationships. Guided by psychological reactance theory (PRT), this stu…
Conclusion to the special issue
This article serves as the conclusion of the special issue entitled "Relationships in the time of COVID-19: Examining the effects of the global pandemic on personal relationships." The special issue includes 29 research articles with authors and samples from 28 countries spanning all continents except Antarctica. Romantic relationships between two heterosexual partners were studied most often in the special issue articles, but studies also focuse…
Family Caregiving Burden in Romantic Relationships
In addition to health and financial burdens, family caregivers can experience stress in their romantic relationships. Relational turbulence theory (RTT) is used to understand how family caregivers and caregivers’ romantic partners navigate relational transitions and caregiver burden when one partner is providing informal care to another aging family member. Three hundred and nineteen participants, who were either the romantic partner providing ca…
Introduction to the special issue
This introduction describes the background for the special issue entitled "Relationships in the Time of COVID-19: Examining the Effects of the Global Pandemic on Personal Relationships." It also examines reasons for conducting interdisciplinary research on COVID-19 and personal relationships, and previews first articles published in the special issue
Promoting Environmental Behaviors
Very few Americans follow a plant-based diet (PBD), despite its environmental and personal benefits. To better understand motivations and intentions to adopt a PBD, this online survey study sampled 514 participants across the US, utilizing the Health Belief Model (HBM) and subjective norms from the Theory of Planned Behavior. Both self-efficacy and subjective norms are significant positive predictors of intention to eat a PBD. The highest perceiv…
Forgive and Forget
The present study investigated responses to imagined same-sex infidelity committed by a partner in a heterosexual relationship. The motivational theory of infidelity and research on communicative infidelity were used as guiding frameworks for exploring differences in perceptions of blame and intentionality as a result of varying motivations for engaging in same-sex infidelity (i.e., cheating due to attraction, experimentation, sexual preoccupatio…
Same‐sex infidelity in heterosexual romantic relationships
The present study explores emotional, relational, and communicative responses to different‐sex and same‐sex infidelity in heterosexual romantic relationships. Two‐hundred and eighty‐five men and women completed an online survey. Individuals were asked to read a scenario in which an imagined heterosexual partner engages in infidelity with a different‐sex or same‐sex person. Individuals were randomly assigned to one of these two conditions and then…
Dyadic perceptions of goals, conflict strategies, and perceived resolvability in serial arguments
Romantic partners' dyadic perceptions of their goals and conflict strategies in ongoing, unresolved conflict are examined in relation to one another and to these serial arguments' perceived resolvability. Specifically, elements of Bevan, Finan, and Kaminsky's ((2008) Modeling serial arguments in close relationships: The serial argument process model, Human Communication Research, 34, 600-624) serial argument process model were considered here as …
The Communication of Jealousy
This book won the 2014 Communication Association's Diamond Anniversary Book This book received the 2014 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the Communication and the National Communication Association - Communication and Social Cognition Division - 2013 Distinguished Book Award. Informed by a wide variety of academic disciplines and offering a unique interpersonal communication approach to the …
Topic Avoidance and Negative Health Perceptions in the Distant Family Caregiving Context
This study examines topic avoidance motivations and frequency from a multiple goals perspective in relation to self-reported negative health perceptions in the distant family caregiving context. A sample of 130 self-identified distant family caregivers completed an online survey about their communication with their care recipient. Overall topic avoidance and the self-protection and partner unresponsiveness motivations were significant, positive p…
Interpersonal communication apprehension, topic avoidance, and the experience of irritable bowel syndrome
Through the lens of the theory of inhibition and confrontation ( Pennebaker, 1989 ), this study explored the relationships that interpersonal communication apprehension and topic avoidance in one's closest relationship share with the experience of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Specifically, an online survey that studied U.S. IBS‐diagnosed and non‐IBS subsamples examined person–partner communication apprehension, amount of overall topic avoidanc…
A preliminary study of how multiple exposures to messages about genetics impact on lay attitudes towards racial and genetic discrimination
Media depictions of genetics have led to concerns that this coverage will lead to increased belief in genetic determinism and increased discrimination, including racism. Previous studies of single exposures to messages about genetics or messages about genetics and race have shown some increases in discrimination and racism. Since attitude change is linked to repeated exposure to many messages, this study aimed to identify the effect of multiple e…
Modeling Serial Arguments in Close Relationships
Though an emerging research area, serial argumentation has yet to be cohesively explored from a theoretical lens. The current project thus extends and updatesTrapp and Hoff's (1985) original serial argument model by explicating and testing a theoretical process an individual goes through immediately before, during, and after a serial argument episode. Specifically, perceived resolvability, serial argument goal importance, conflict tactics, rumina…
Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks
Expectancy Violation Theory and Sexual Resistance in Close, Cross-Sex Relationships
Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks
Modeling Serial Arguments in Close Relationships
Though an emerging research area, serial argumentation has yet to be cohesively explored from a theoretical lens. The current project thus extends and updatesTrapp and Hoff's (1985) original serial argument model by explicating and testing a theoretical process an individual goes through immediately before, during, and after a serial argument episode. Specifically, perceived resolvability, serial argument goal importance, conflict tactics, rumina…
Dyadic perceptions of goals, conflict strategies, and perceived resolvability in serial arguments
Romantic partners' dyadic perceptions of their goals and conflict strategies in ongoing, unresolved conflict are examined in relation to one another and to these serial arguments' perceived resolvability. Specifically, elements of Bevan, Finan, and Kaminsky's ((2008) Modeling serial arguments in close relationships: The serial argument process model, Human Communication Research, 34, 600-624) serial argument process model were considered here as …
Same‐sex infidelity in heterosexual romantic relationships
The present study explores emotional, relational, and communicative responses to different‐sex and same‐sex infidelity in heterosexual romantic relationships. Two‐hundred and eighty‐five men and women completed an online survey. Individuals were asked to read a scenario in which an imagined heterosexual partner engages in infidelity with a different‐sex or same‐sex person. Individuals were randomly assigned to one of these two conditions and then…
Expectancy Violation Theory and Sexual Resistance in Close, Cross-Sex Relationships
Conclusion to the special issue
This article serves as the conclusion of the special issue entitled "Relationships in the time of COVID-19: Examining the effects of the global pandemic on personal relationships." The special issue includes 29 research articles with authors and samples from 28 countries spanning all continents except Antarctica. Romantic relationships between two heterosexual partners were studied most often in the special issue articles, but studies also focuse…
Topic Avoidance and Negative Health Perceptions in the Distant Family Caregiving Context
This study examines topic avoidance motivations and frequency from a multiple goals perspective in relation to self-reported negative health perceptions in the distant family caregiving context. A sample of 130 self-identified distant family caregivers completed an online survey about their communication with their care recipient. Overall topic avoidance and the self-protection and partner unresponsiveness motivations were significant, positive p…
Introduction to the special issue
This introduction describes the background for the special issue entitled "Relationships in the Time of COVID-19: Examining the Effects of the Global Pandemic on Personal Relationships." It also examines reasons for conducting interdisciplinary research on COVID-19 and personal relationships, and previews first articles published in the special issue
Forgive and Forget
The present study investigated responses to imagined same-sex infidelity committed by a partner in a heterosexual relationship. The motivational theory of infidelity and research on communicative infidelity were used as guiding frameworks for exploring differences in perceptions of blame and intentionality as a result of varying motivations for engaging in same-sex infidelity (i.e., cheating due to attraction, experimentation, sexual preoccupatio…
Interpersonal communication apprehension, topic avoidance, and the experience of irritable bowel syndrome
Through the lens of the theory of inhibition and confrontation ( Pennebaker, 1989 ), this study explored the relationships that interpersonal communication apprehension and topic avoidance in one's closest relationship share with the experience of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Specifically, an online survey that studied U.S. IBS‐diagnosed and non‐IBS subsamples examined person–partner communication apprehension, amount of overall topic avoidanc…
Romantic Partner Interference and Psychological Reactance in the Context of Caregiving for an Aging Family Member
Negotiating romantic relational dynamics is inherent to family caregiving situations, which continue to be on the rise in the United States. However, despite evidence that family caregiving duties are linked to a variety of negative relational outcomes, limited research examines communication processes that contribute to or alleviate the burden of caregiver duties on romantic relationships. Guided by psychological reactance theory (PRT), this stu…
Expectancy Violation Theory and Sexual Resistance in Close, Cross-Sex Relationships
Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks
A preliminary study of how multiple exposures to messages about genetics impact on lay attitudes towards racial and genetic discrimination
Media depictions of genetics have led to concerns that this coverage will lead to increased belief in genetic determinism and increased discrimination, including racism. Previous studies of single exposures to messages about genetics or messages about genetics and race have shown some increases in discrimination and racism. Since attitude change is linked to repeated exposure to many messages, this study aimed to identify the effect of multiple e…
Modeling Serial Arguments in Close Relationships
Though an emerging research area, serial argumentation has yet to be cohesively explored from a theoretical lens. The current project thus extends and updatesTrapp and Hoff's (1985) original serial argument model by explicating and testing a theoretical process an individual goes through immediately before, during, and after a serial argument episode. Specifically, perceived resolvability, serial argument goal importance, conflict tactics, rumina…
Interpersonal communication apprehension, topic avoidance, and the experience of irritable bowel syndrome
Through the lens of the theory of inhibition and confrontation ( Pennebaker, 1989 ), this study explored the relationships that interpersonal communication apprehension and topic avoidance in one's closest relationship share with the experience of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Specifically, an online survey that studied U.S. IBS‐diagnosed and non‐IBS subsamples examined person–partner communication apprehension, amount of overall topic avoidanc…
Topic Avoidance and Negative Health Perceptions in the Distant Family Caregiving Context
This study examines topic avoidance motivations and frequency from a multiple goals perspective in relation to self-reported negative health perceptions in the distant family caregiving context. A sample of 130 self-identified distant family caregivers completed an online survey about their communication with their care recipient. Overall topic avoidance and the self-protection and partner unresponsiveness motivations were significant, positive p…
The Communication of Jealousy
This book won the 2014 Communication Association's Diamond Anniversary Book This book received the 2014 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the Communication and the National Communication Association - Communication and Social Cognition Division - 2013 Distinguished Book Award. Informed by a wide variety of academic disciplines and offering a unique interpersonal communication approach to the …
Dyadic perceptions of goals, conflict strategies, and perceived resolvability in serial arguments
Romantic partners' dyadic perceptions of their goals and conflict strategies in ongoing, unresolved conflict are examined in relation to one another and to these serial arguments' perceived resolvability. Specifically, elements of Bevan, Finan, and Kaminsky's ((2008) Modeling serial arguments in close relationships: The serial argument process model, Human Communication Research, 34, 600-624) serial argument process model were considered here as …
Same‐sex infidelity in heterosexual romantic relationships
The present study explores emotional, relational, and communicative responses to different‐sex and same‐sex infidelity in heterosexual romantic relationships. Two‐hundred and eighty‐five men and women completed an online survey. Individuals were asked to read a scenario in which an imagined heterosexual partner engages in infidelity with a different‐sex or same‐sex person. Individuals were randomly assigned to one of these two conditions and then…
Forgive and Forget
The present study investigated responses to imagined same-sex infidelity committed by a partner in a heterosexual relationship. The motivational theory of infidelity and research on communicative infidelity were used as guiding frameworks for exploring differences in perceptions of blame and intentionality as a result of varying motivations for engaging in same-sex infidelity (i.e., cheating due to attraction, experimentation, sexual preoccupatio…
Promoting Environmental Behaviors
Very few Americans follow a plant-based diet (PBD), despite its environmental and personal benefits. To better understand motivations and intentions to adopt a PBD, this online survey study sampled 514 participants across the US, utilizing the Health Belief Model (HBM) and subjective norms from the Theory of Planned Behavior. Both self-efficacy and subjective norms are significant positive predictors of intention to eat a PBD. The highest perceiv…
Family Caregiving Burden in Romantic Relationships
In addition to health and financial burdens, family caregivers can experience stress in their romantic relationships. Relational turbulence theory (RTT) is used to understand how family caregivers and caregivers’ romantic partners navigate relational transitions and caregiver burden when one partner is providing informal care to another aging family member. Three hundred and nineteen participants, who were either the romantic partner providing ca…
Introduction to the special issue
This introduction describes the background for the special issue entitled "Relationships in the Time of COVID-19: Examining the Effects of the Global Pandemic on Personal Relationships." It also examines reasons for conducting interdisciplinary research on COVID-19 and personal relationships, and previews first articles published in the special issue
Ambiguous loss, stress, communal coping, and resilience
K-12 teachers throughout the United States have experienced unprecedented changes to their roles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, creating ambiguity and stress. This study took a mixed-methods approach to investigate K-12 teachers’ experiences coping with stress during the pandemic. The investigation involved two phases of data collection, beginning with formative focus groups that informed the development of an online survey in the second phase. Tw…
Romantic Partner Interference and Psychological Reactance in the Context of Caregiving for an Aging Family Member
Negotiating romantic relational dynamics is inherent to family caregiving situations, which continue to be on the rise in the United States. However, despite evidence that family caregiving duties are linked to a variety of negative relational outcomes, limited research examines communication processes that contribute to or alleviate the burden of caregiver duties on romantic relationships. Guided by psychological reactance theory (PRT), this stu…
Conclusion to the special issue
This article serves as the conclusion of the special issue entitled "Relationships in the time of COVID-19: Examining the effects of the global pandemic on personal relationships." The special issue includes 29 research articles with authors and samples from 28 countries spanning all continents except Antarctica. Romantic relationships between two heterosexual partners were studied most often in the special issue articles, but studies also focuse…
A descriptive literature review of early research on Covid-19 and close relationships
This in-depth critical review investigates the impact of COVID-19 on personal relationships from the start of the pandemic in early 2020 to September 2021. Research examining six themes are identified and described in detail: the impact of COVID-19 on (1) family and intimate relationships; (2) LGBTQ+ relationships; (3) how COVID-19 is linked to technologically mediated communication and personal relationships; (4) potential shifts in sexual behav…
Some days are much holier than others”
When intrafaith couples' religion strictly prohibits premarital sexual intercourse, negotiating sexual intimacy can become a multilayered process of identity negotiation that compounds the difficulty of sexual communication. Through the lens of relational turbulence theory, this study explored how devout Christian couples negotiate sexual intimacy by reanalyzing qualitative interview data the first author collected in 2017 from 16 self‐identified…
Using the Disclosure Decision-Making Model to Examine Patient Confusion Disclosure
The disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) has been heavily explored within its initially proposed scope. Fewer known studies have tested the DD-MM's boundaries by assessing the model's application beyond close personal relationships, and none have explored it in a context outside of long-term health conditions. The current study investigates the disclosure decision-making process of patients to their healthcare providers when they experience s…
Let’s Talk About Death
The disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM) explains an individual's decision-making process regarding whether they disclose personal health information to others and consists of three tenets (i.e., assessment of information, assessment of receiver, and disclosure efficacy). Whereas traditional DD-MM applications have focused on physiological disclosures (e.g., HIV diagnosis), this study investigates the non-visible, non-diagnosis context of dis…
Why do people share social networking site passwords with their romantic partners? The antecedents and explanations for social networking site password sharing in romantic relationships
Our study examined antecedents and explanations for sharing social networking site passwords with romantic partners. U.S. adults currently or recently in romantic relationships (N = 948) completed an online survey assessing relationship characteristics and reasons for password sharing. Results indicated that relationship satisfaction, relationship length, and social networking site jealousy predicted password sharing. Younger participants were al…
She Was My Egg Donor, Not My Mom”
This study employs attribution theory to examine how adult daughters from low‐income backgrounds perceive and manage low‐quality daughter‐mother relationships. Using in‐depth interviews and flexible coding, we analyzed how daughters ( n = 42) attribute locus, responsibility, specificity, and stability. Daughters often located control internally within their mothers, citing enduring traits as sources of conflict while noting external influences su…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (9 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Romance (7 works) · Context (archaeology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)