Jon F Nussbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 83230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon F Nussbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon F |
| FAMILY NAME | Nussbaum |
| SIGNATURE | NUSSBAUM J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Transitions in marriage
This study examines transitions in marriage by merging the frameworks of the relational turbulence model and the experiencing life transitions model. An online survey presented 208 married individuals with open-ended questions and closed-ended scales that gathered information about a particularly important transition in the respondent's marriage, the quality of their relationship during the transition, and the strategies used to navigate the tran…
Life Span and End-of-Life Health Communication
Maximizing Wellness in Successful Aging and Cancer Coping
Interpersonal communication is a fundamental part of being and key to health. Interactions within family are especially critical to wellness across time. Family communication is a central means of adaptation to stress, coping, and successful aging. Still, no theoretical argument in the discipline exists that prioritizes kin communication in health. Theoretical advances can enhance interventions and policies that improve family life. This article …
The Communication of Wisdom
Wisdom has played a central role in the attempt to understand the positive nature of human behavior for more than 4,000 years. Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and life span developmental scholars have joined this discussion in recent years to empirically investigate the physical and mental nature of wisdom. The social dimension of wisdom has not received as much scientific attention and is rather disjointed. I propose that communication…
Social Support Expectations and Strategic Ambiguity in Parent–Young Adult Child Divorce-Related Stressor Conversations
With communication privacy management and the divorce disclosure model as guiding frameworks, this study identified the stressors postdivorce families discussed as they mature, elucidated the types of social support parents and young adult children expected regarding divorce-related stress, and tested whether motivational and contextual factors prompted parents' use of strategic ambiguity while discussing stressors. By examining parent–child divo…
Commentary Moving Beyond Our Scholarly Comfort Zones
(2011). Commentary Moving Beyond Our Scholarly Comfort Zones. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 35, Communication Yearbook 35, pp. 153-157
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
A Communication Model for the Competent Delivery of Geriatric Medicine
The competent practice of geriatric medicine has become a priority within the health care system. As older adults transition from independence to dependence, the health care system must respond to a complex set of interdependent networks that the system and those who work within it may not be prepared to handle. The competent practice of geriatric medicine is dependent on the coordination of numerous health specialists, organizations, the older p…
Life Span Communication and Quality of Life
Communication as a social-science discipline was an adolescent as I began my graduate career in the middle 1970s. It was not uncommon to be handed a syllabus for a graduate seminar in communication theory that required very few readings written by scholars whose academic home was within communication, or for that matter had ever heard of an academic discipline named communication. We mostly were schooled in the theories of human behavior and inte…
Integrating the Past and Paving the Future
This special issue introduction contextualizes the importance of recent international and interdisciplinary trends and developments in language and social psychology research. The articles included in this special issue are written by keynote speakers and invited panelists at the Ninth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology held at Pennsylvania State University during the summer of 2004. They are forward-thinking and cross mul…
Instructional/Developmental Communication
The Instructional/Developmental Communication Division of ICA has produced a significant literature investigating communication processes within instructional settings as well as communication change occurring throughout the life span. This article documents the significant theoretical developments and empirical findings by communication scholars that have occurred over the past several decades. In addition, based upon the strengths and weaknesse…
Instructional/Developmental Communication
The Instructional/Developmental Communication Division of ICA has produced a significant literature investigating communication processes within instructional settings as well as communication change occurring throughout the life span. This article documents the significant theoretical developments and empirical findings by communication scholars that have occurred over the past several decades. In addition, based upon the strengths and weaknesse…
Ageism and Ageist Language Across the Life Span
The possible effects of ageist language and ageism on the structure and function of intimate and non‐intimate relationships have received significant attention from social scientists. Recent research grounded in communication accommodation theory ( Giles, Mulac, Bradac, & Johnson, 1987 ), the communication predicament model of ageing ( Ryan, Giles, Bartolucci, & Henwood, 1986 ), the communication enhancement model of ageing ( Ryan, Meredith, MacL…
Lifespan Communication
Lifespan communication researchers investigate the changes in relevant communication perceptions, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships across the entirety of our lives. Borrowing from the pioneering work of behavioral researchers in our sister disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and human development, communication researchers utilizing the lifespan perspective to guide their investigations have produced a significant amount…
Mother-Adult Daughter Discussions of Caregiving Prior to Dependency
Thirty-six mother-adult daughter dyads discussed potential caregiving decisions prior to the mother's dependency. Their interactions were coded for exhibited conflict, use of control strategies, level of involvement in the discussion, and regard for each other. In addition, they reported their use of conflict strategies when having a disagreement with each other. Less than 40% of these dyads exhibited a disagreement. Mothers with high nonconfront…
Message Production Across the Life Span
Journal Article Message Production Across the Life Span: Communication and Aging Get access Jon F. Nussbaum, Jon F. Nussbaum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doreen K. Baringer Doreen K. Baringer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 May 2000, Pages 200–209, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2000.tb00189.x Published: 17 March 2…
Differential Accounts of Closeness in Older Adult Sibling Relationships
Research into the older adult sibling relationship has only recently recognized and attempted to account for differential feelings of closeness between siblings throughout their lives. Sixty-one participants, aged fifty-four and older with at least two siblings, were interviewed concerning the degree of closeness they felt towards their siblings. Participants in this investigation were able to differentiate levels of closeness felt toward their s…
Communication and Older Adults
The communicative impact of institutionalization for the elderly
Communication, Language and the Institutionalised Elderly
Research describing the social world of elderly residents of nursing homes is organised in this paper into three levels of analysis: the institutional level, the relational level and the interactional level. The significance of each level is highlighted, with special attention being given to the interactional level of analysis and the study of language within the nursing home. Data gathered from semi-structured interviews with both elderly reside…
Systematic Modification of Teacher Behavior
(1983). Systematic Modification of Teacher Behavior. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 7, Communication Yearbook 7, pp. 672-684
Effective Teaching
(1981). Effective Teaching: A Communicative Nonrecursive Causal Model. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 5, Communication Yearbook 5, pp. 737-749
Dramatic Behaviors of the Effective Teacher
This study provides strong evidence that certain dramatic style behaviors systematically covary with whether one is perceived as an effective teacher. Almost 500 students evaluated target teachers, representing 97 separate classes, on two independently administered instruments. The first instrument measured dramatic style behaviors that had been generated from earlier work. The second instrument measured teacher effectiveness. A special unit of a…
Student Learning as a Relational Outcome of Teacher-Student Interaction
This study investigates student/teacher solidarity as a factor mediating the relationship between an instructor's communicative behavior and student learning. Differing degrees of student/teacher solidarity are found to affect the amount of student affective, behavioral, and cognitive learning. In addition, an instructor's communication style is found to contribute to the degree of student/teacher solidarity within the student/teacher relationshi…
Instructor Communication Behaviors and Their Relationship to Classroom Learning
This study assessed the relationship between perceived instructor communication behaviors—i.e., communicator style, disclosiveness, and interpersonal solidarity—and classroom learning. It was found that the preceding variables were substantially and positively associated with student affect and behavioral intent, but negatively associated with cognitive learning. Hypothesis one, predicting a linear combination of communicator style and disclosive…
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
Transitions in marriage
This study examines transitions in marriage by merging the frameworks of the relational turbulence model and the experiencing life transitions model. An online survey presented 208 married individuals with open-ended questions and closed-ended scales that gathered information about a particularly important transition in the respondent's marriage, the quality of their relationship during the transition, and the strategies used to navigate the tran…
Ageism and Ageist Language Across the Life Span
The possible effects of ageist language and ageism on the structure and function of intimate and non‐intimate relationships have received significant attention from social scientists. Recent research grounded in communication accommodation theory ( Giles, Mulac, Bradac, & Johnson, 1987 ), the communication predicament model of ageing ( Ryan, Giles, Bartolucci, & Henwood, 1986 ), the communication enhancement model of ageing ( Ryan, Meredith, MacL…
Mother-Adult Daughter Discussions of Caregiving Prior to Dependency
Thirty-six mother-adult daughter dyads discussed potential caregiving decisions prior to the mother's dependency. Their interactions were coded for exhibited conflict, use of control strategies, level of involvement in the discussion, and regard for each other. In addition, they reported their use of conflict strategies when having a disagreement with each other. Less than 40% of these dyads exhibited a disagreement. Mothers with high nonconfront…
Differential Accounts of Closeness in Older Adult Sibling Relationships
Research into the older adult sibling relationship has only recently recognized and attempted to account for differential feelings of closeness between siblings throughout their lives. Sixty-one participants, aged fifty-four and older with at least two siblings, were interviewed concerning the degree of closeness they felt towards their siblings. Participants in this investigation were able to differentiate levels of closeness felt toward their s…
The Communication of Wisdom
Wisdom has played a central role in the attempt to understand the positive nature of human behavior for more than 4,000 years. Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and life span developmental scholars have joined this discussion in recent years to empirically investigate the physical and mental nature of wisdom. The social dimension of wisdom has not received as much scientific attention and is rather disjointed. I propose that communication…
Integrating the Past and Paving the Future
This special issue introduction contextualizes the importance of recent international and interdisciplinary trends and developments in language and social psychology research. The articles included in this special issue are written by keynote speakers and invited panelists at the Ninth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology held at Pennsylvania State University during the summer of 2004. They are forward-thinking and cross mul…
Communication and Older Adults
Communication, Language and the Institutionalised Elderly
Research describing the social world of elderly residents of nursing homes is organised in this paper into three levels of analysis: the institutional level, the relational level and the interactional level. The significance of each level is highlighted, with special attention being given to the interactional level of analysis and the study of language within the nursing home. Data gathered from semi-structured interviews with both elderly reside…
Maximizing Wellness in Successful Aging and Cancer Coping
Interpersonal communication is a fundamental part of being and key to health. Interactions within family are especially critical to wellness across time. Family communication is a central means of adaptation to stress, coping, and successful aging. Still, no theoretical argument in the discipline exists that prioritizes kin communication in health. Theoretical advances can enhance interventions and policies that improve family life. This article …
A Communication Model for the Competent Delivery of Geriatric Medicine
The competent practice of geriatric medicine has become a priority within the health care system. As older adults transition from independence to dependence, the health care system must respond to a complex set of interdependent networks that the system and those who work within it may not be prepared to handle. The competent practice of geriatric medicine is dependent on the coordination of numerous health specialists, organizations, the older p…
The communicative impact of institutionalization for the elderly
Student Learning as a Relational Outcome of Teacher-Student Interaction
This study investigates student/teacher solidarity as a factor mediating the relationship between an instructor's communicative behavior and student learning. Differing degrees of student/teacher solidarity are found to affect the amount of student affective, behavioral, and cognitive learning. In addition, an instructor's communication style is found to contribute to the degree of student/teacher solidarity within the student/teacher relationshi…
Lifespan Communication
Lifespan communication researchers investigate the changes in relevant communication perceptions, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships across the entirety of our lives. Borrowing from the pioneering work of behavioral researchers in our sister disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and human development, communication researchers utilizing the lifespan perspective to guide their investigations have produced a significant amount…
Message Production Across the Life Span
Journal Article Message Production Across the Life Span: Communication and Aging Get access Jon F. Nussbaum, Jon F. Nussbaum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doreen K. Baringer Doreen K. Baringer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 May 2000, Pages 200–209, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2000.tb00189.x Published: 17 March 2…
Instructor Communication Behaviors and Their Relationship to Classroom Learning
This study assessed the relationship between perceived instructor communication behaviors—i.e., communicator style, disclosiveness, and interpersonal solidarity—and classroom learning. It was found that the preceding variables were substantially and positively associated with student affect and behavioral intent, but negatively associated with cognitive learning. Hypothesis one, predicting a linear combination of communicator style and disclosive…
Dramatic Behaviors of the Effective Teacher
This study provides strong evidence that certain dramatic style behaviors systematically covary with whether one is perceived as an effective teacher. Almost 500 students evaluated target teachers, representing 97 separate classes, on two independently administered instruments. The first instrument measured dramatic style behaviors that had been generated from earlier work. The second instrument measured teacher effectiveness. A special unit of a…
Student Learning as a Relational Outcome of Teacher-Student Interaction
This study investigates student/teacher solidarity as a factor mediating the relationship between an instructor's communicative behavior and student learning. Differing degrees of student/teacher solidarity are found to affect the amount of student affective, behavioral, and cognitive learning. In addition, an instructor's communication style is found to contribute to the degree of student/teacher solidarity within the student/teacher relationshi…
Effective Teaching
(1981). Effective Teaching: A Communicative Nonrecursive Causal Model. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 5, Communication Yearbook 5, pp. 737-749
Systematic Modification of Teacher Behavior
(1983). Systematic Modification of Teacher Behavior. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 7, Communication Yearbook 7, pp. 672-684
Communication, Language and the Institutionalised Elderly
Research describing the social world of elderly residents of nursing homes is organised in this paper into three levels of analysis: the institutional level, the relational level and the interactional level. The significance of each level is highlighted, with special attention being given to the interactional level of analysis and the study of language within the nursing home. Data gathered from semi-structured interviews with both elderly reside…
The communicative impact of institutionalization for the elderly
Communication and Older Adults
Differential Accounts of Closeness in Older Adult Sibling Relationships
Research into the older adult sibling relationship has only recently recognized and attempted to account for differential feelings of closeness between siblings throughout their lives. Sixty-one participants, aged fifty-four and older with at least two siblings, were interviewed concerning the degree of closeness they felt towards their siblings. Participants in this investigation were able to differentiate levels of closeness felt toward their s…
Message Production Across the Life Span
Journal Article Message Production Across the Life Span: Communication and Aging Get access Jon F. Nussbaum, Jon F. Nussbaum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Doreen K. Baringer Doreen K. Baringer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 May 2000, Pages 200–209, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2000.tb00189.x Published: 17 March 2…
Mother-Adult Daughter Discussions of Caregiving Prior to Dependency
Thirty-six mother-adult daughter dyads discussed potential caregiving decisions prior to the mother's dependency. Their interactions were coded for exhibited conflict, use of control strategies, level of involvement in the discussion, and regard for each other. In addition, they reported their use of conflict strategies when having a disagreement with each other. Less than 40% of these dyads exhibited a disagreement. Mothers with high nonconfront…
Lifespan Communication
Lifespan communication researchers investigate the changes in relevant communication perceptions, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships across the entirety of our lives. Borrowing from the pioneering work of behavioral researchers in our sister disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and human development, communication researchers utilizing the lifespan perspective to guide their investigations have produced a significant amount…
Instructional/Developmental Communication
The Instructional/Developmental Communication Division of ICA has produced a significant literature investigating communication processes within instructional settings as well as communication change occurring throughout the life span. This article documents the significant theoretical developments and empirical findings by communication scholars that have occurred over the past several decades. In addition, based upon the strengths and weaknesse…
Instructional/Developmental Communication
The Instructional/Developmental Communication Division of ICA has produced a significant literature investigating communication processes within instructional settings as well as communication change occurring throughout the life span. This article documents the significant theoretical developments and empirical findings by communication scholars that have occurred over the past several decades. In addition, based upon the strengths and weaknesse…
Ageism and Ageist Language Across the Life Span
The possible effects of ageist language and ageism on the structure and function of intimate and non‐intimate relationships have received significant attention from social scientists. Recent research grounded in communication accommodation theory ( Giles, Mulac, Bradac, & Johnson, 1987 ), the communication predicament model of ageing ( Ryan, Giles, Bartolucci, & Henwood, 1986 ), the communication enhancement model of ageing ( Ryan, Meredith, MacL…
Integrating the Past and Paving the Future
This special issue introduction contextualizes the importance of recent international and interdisciplinary trends and developments in language and social psychology research. The articles included in this special issue are written by keynote speakers and invited panelists at the Ninth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology held at Pennsylvania State University during the summer of 2004. They are forward-thinking and cross mul…
Life Span Communication and Quality of Life
Communication as a social-science discipline was an adolescent as I began my graduate career in the middle 1970s. It was not uncommon to be handed a syllabus for a graduate seminar in communication theory that required very few readings written by scholars whose academic home was within communication, or for that matter had ever heard of an academic discipline named communication. We mostly were schooled in the theories of human behavior and inte…
A Communication Model for the Competent Delivery of Geriatric Medicine
The competent practice of geriatric medicine has become a priority within the health care system. As older adults transition from independence to dependence, the health care system must respond to a complex set of interdependent networks that the system and those who work within it may not be prepared to handle. The competent practice of geriatric medicine is dependent on the coordination of numerous health specialists, organizations, the older p…
Social Support Expectations and Strategic Ambiguity in Parent–Young Adult Child Divorce-Related Stressor Conversations
With communication privacy management and the divorce disclosure model as guiding frameworks, this study identified the stressors postdivorce families discussed as they mature, elucidated the types of social support parents and young adult children expected regarding divorce-related stress, and tested whether motivational and contextual factors prompted parents' use of strategic ambiguity while discussing stressors. By examining parent–child divo…
Commentary Moving Beyond Our Scholarly Comfort Zones
(2011). Commentary Moving Beyond Our Scholarly Comfort Zones. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 35, Communication Yearbook 35, pp. 153-157
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication
The Communication of Wisdom
Wisdom has played a central role in the attempt to understand the positive nature of human behavior for more than 4,000 years. Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and life span developmental scholars have joined this discussion in recent years to empirically investigate the physical and mental nature of wisdom. The social dimension of wisdom has not received as much scientific attention and is rather disjointed. I propose that communication…
Life Span and End-of-Life Health Communication
Maximizing Wellness in Successful Aging and Cancer Coping
Interpersonal communication is a fundamental part of being and key to health. Interactions within family are especially critical to wellness across time. Family communication is a central means of adaptation to stress, coping, and successful aging. Still, no theoretical argument in the discipline exists that prioritizes kin communication in health. Theoretical advances can enhance interventions and policies that improve family life. This article …
Transitions in marriage
This study examines transitions in marriage by merging the frameworks of the relational turbulence model and the experiencing life transitions model. An online survey presented 208 married individuals with open-ended questions and closed-ended scales that gathered information about a particularly important transition in the respondent's marriage, the quality of their relationship during the transition, and the strategies used to navigate the tran…
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works)