Gregory A Cranmer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4804163 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gregory A Cranmer |
| PRENOMES | Gregory A |
| SOBRENOME | Cranmer |
| ASSINATURA | CRANMER G A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5389-2688 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior in Considering the Efficacy of Encountering Concussion Intervention Materials Online
This study employs the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to consider the efficacy of sport-related concussion (SRC) education materials among collegiate club sport athletes. In particular, variations in the targeted behavior (i.e. self-reporting SRC symptoms or other reporting SRC signs in teammates), format (i.e. digital text or video), and the presence of a personal narrative were considered. Data obtained from 443 club sport athletes in contact…
The Role of Closure, Athletic Identity, and Social Support on Student-Athletes’ Mental Health During Their Socialization Out of Sports
One of the most difficult transitions in all of sports occurs when elite athletes conclude their athletic careers—a process known as socialization out of sport (SOS). This study examined survey data from 125 former Division I student-athletes who are in the first year of their SOS, to gain predictive and comparative insight into the importance of closure, athletic identity, and received support on former student-athletes’ life satisfaction and me…
Testing a sport-related concussion intervention among high school athletes
Identity and stakeholdership in responses to the NFL’s allowance of guardian helmets within regular season games
The addressing of sports-related brain injuries has remained a public health epidemic for over a decade, including for professional sports entities like the National Football League (NFL). This study considers public responses to the NFL’s latest efforts to address brain injuries through adopting protective technology known as Guardian Caps, including as a function of social media users’ characteristics. The consideration of 2,466 X posts reveale…
Social media trolls as faux third-party agents of image repair
This study examines trolls affiliated with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that targeted conversations around former Houston Rockets' General Manager Daryl Morey, who tweeted support for Hong Kong protests and apologized in October 2019.Researchers coded 5,800 tweets to inform a machine-learning approach examining a corpus of over 163,000 tweets.Findings suggested that a PRC disinformation campaign was organized as a faux third-party image r…
Effects of Cohesion With Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health
Collegiate student-athletes are experiencing an ongoing mental health epidemic, especially concerning anxiety and depression. This study builds upon the meta-theory of the human need to belong and the transactional theory of stress and coping by framing stress as a mediator for the benefits of cohesion between teammates on mental health. Data from 121 Division-I student-athletes demonstrated a fully mediated model whereby task cohesion indirectly…
Using Psychological Reactance and Bandwagon Cues to Explain High School Sports Coaches’ Resistance to Concussion Communication Policies
Sport-related concussions (SRC) are a significant health risk for athletes amalgamated by issues with underreporting. Coaches play a pivotal role in promoting safety and health, but coach-player SRC communication efforts have been insufficient at improving players’ reporting behaviors. This study considers coaches’ responses to a proposed mandate to engage in SRC communication with athletes via psychological reactance theory (PRT), with bandwagon…
Activating stereotypes through sports media
This research investigates whether stereotypes activated by common media portrayals of Black athletes that emphasize physicality influence social judgments outside the sporting context. Results of a 2 (athlete race) X 2 (athlete frame) between-subjects experiment indicated that when an athlete was framed in terms of physical attributes, participants evaluated a suspect in a subsequent news story based on overlapping qualities related to criminali…
Athletes’ displaced dissent on social media
Organizational dissent is ubiquitous in task-oriented groups, including sports teams and leagues. Yet, how and to whom that dissent is voiced and the responses to dissent can vary extensively. This study investigates how professional athletes enact displaced dissent and how the public reacts via sentiment analysis of Trevor Bauer’s YouTube channel. Findings identified 53 triggering agents that were consistent with those of subordinates in traditi…
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates
Binge drinking is a major public health concern on college campuses and shares a deep connection to sporting culture. As such, student-athletes are potential referent points for addressing this destructive behavior among the student body. This study utilizes the theoretical frameworks of the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) and parasocial relationships (PSRs) to investigate the effects that student-athletes’ health advocacy has on college stude…
Why Can’t We Play on Grass?”
This manuscript considers public discourse surrounding the link between playing surface and lower-extremity injuries within the context of a case study on New York Giants’ wide-receiver Sterling Shepard’s anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear, with an aim to identify and explain the use of narratives as a function of commenters’ stakeholder groups and expressions of fandom. Such an effort extends scholarship on issues of athlete health policy to …
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange
Leader-member exchange theory (LMX) has proliferated as a framework for understanding coach-athlete interactions, as the exchanges of communicative resources greatly influence athletes’ sporting experiences. The current study uses coaches’ perceptions of task and social determinants of LMX to reveal comparative insights about forming low- and high-quality exchanges. Data collected from 380 coaches, spanning 14 different sports, at 160 high school…
Sport Knowledge
Sporting environments are informal contexts of learning that are dependent upon coaches’ use of effective instructional communication strategies. Coaches’ use of power while communicating instruction to athletes is especially germane, as coaches must appropriately use relational influence to inspire optimal athletic performance. Using French and Raven’s power bases (i.e., expert, referent, reward, legitimate, and coercive power), this study consi…
Parent–Child Communication regarding Sport-Related Concussion
Extant research has discussed the importance of social climates surrounding sport-related concussion (SRC) reporting, especially the need to address parents/guardians’ role in concussion management. This study explores parents/guardians’ intentions toward SRC-related conversations with their children and their seeking of conversational resources via the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Data collected from 292 parents/guardians of 1st-12th grader…
Beyond the classroom
The first year of college is challenging for students as they learn to navigate new surroundings away from their established social support systems. This study examined the adjustment of first-year students through the lens of socialization resources theory (SRT). According to SRT, adaption to novel environments is partly due to social support. Although researchers have examined the importance of parental and peer support for students independent…
“That’s it. i’m done with this team!”
This study utilizes social identity theory to explore fan responses to the NFL teams’ racial advocacy on Twitter at the start of the 2020 football season. A content analysis of 2,868 direct replies and their corresponding user profiles was conducted. Findings supported SIT’s propositions about in-group bias, with commenters being more supportive and less critical of the activist messaging from the official accounts of teams for whom they express …
Exploring the role of parents’ sport orientations in the efficacy of concussion intervention materials
Investigations into parents’ role as health referents in the management of sport-related concussion (SRC) are on the rise. This study contributes to these efforts by exploring the efficacy of concussion intervention materials to promote conversational intentions because of parents’ orientations toward football and SRC management. Data collected from 600 parents of middle and high school football players offered support for an indirect effect of f…
Everyone Hates the NCAA
This manuscript is a case study into public responses to an amateurism transgression committed by Chase Young, a former Ohio State University football player and Heisman candidate. In November of 2019, Young utilized his personal Twitter to announce an amateurism transgression stemming from his acceptance of an improper loan. This study considers 1,674 public and direct replies to Young on Twitter. A variety of themes were identified, including a…
Communication for the win
There is a heuristic and practical need to identify prosocial coaching behaviors that benefit both the relational climates on sports teams and team performance. This study considers the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation (i.e., consisting of acceptance and challenge) on student-athletes’ self-confidence, team task cohesion, and team winning. Data collected from 117 Division-I student-athletes, who participated in team sports, partially sup…
Media Narratives About Concussions
This study examined the effects of media narratives about concussions on parent’s intentions to inform their children about concussions. A randomized experiment of 600 parents whose children play football in middle school or high school were presented with one of the five narrative conditions or the control condition (where parents read a brochure). Results indicate that parents who read the narrative shared from the perspective of a high school …
Setting the Agenda
Sports are a pervasive and salient component of society, which have only recently received considerable attention from communication scholars. Although significant gains in knowledge have been made, there is a great need to explore the role and importance of interactions with family in the determination of sports participation or experiences, how families manage their sporting and familial roles, and the formation of identities and relationships.…
Transcontextual Effects of Racialized Sports Media Framing
This research examines the effects of racial stereotypes embedded within sports media. An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of racialized “brawn” and “brain” frames on perceptions of student-athletes among their potential peers. College student participants ( N = 232) were exposed to one of eight versions of a news article about a college football recruit that manipulated the athlete’s race (White vs. Black) and the frame used to des…
Next Person Up”
The present study explored collegiate student-athletes’ socialization experiences following teammate exit. Fourteen student-athletes (six male and eight female) from nonrevenue-generating sports at two universities (a Division I and a Division II) participated in semistructured interviews. Three major focuses structured this study: (a) meaning attributed to teammate exit, (b) alteration of student-athletes’ tasks and roles, and (c) changes to stu…
Division-I Student-Athletes’ Affective and Cognitive Responses to Receiving Confirmation From Their Head Coach
Empirical evidence of its effectiveness, however, has been limited to athlete affect and based on data from retrospective samples of former high school athletes. This study addresses these limitations by exploring the effectiveness of coaches’ use of confirmation with collegiate student-athletes and considers its influence on their satisfaction with coaches and sport, competitiveness, and cognitive learning. Data obtained from 177 Division-I stud…
High School Athletes’ Reports of Confirmation as a Function of Starting Status and Leader–Member Exchange
Previous research indicates that athletes report receiving disparate levels of confirmation, which is consequential given the psychological, emotional, and cognitive benefits of being confirmed. This article explains head coaches’ use of confirmation, which is comprised of accepting and challenging communication, as a function of athletes’ roles and leader–member exchange (LMX). LMX with head coaches, however, accounted for much larger portions o…
Sports Teams as Organizations
Sport teams by definition can be considered a type of organization; yet, the incorporation of an organizational perspective has not been utilized to examine athletes’ interactions. The current study utilizes leader–member exchange theory as theoretical lens to examine the influence that athlete–coach communication has on relationships and communication with coaches and teammates. A sample of 158 former high school athletes produced results that i…
Media Narratives About Concussions
This study examined the effects of media narratives about concussions on parent’s intentions to inform their children about concussions. A randomized experiment of 600 parents whose children play football in middle school or high school were presented with one of the five narrative conditions or the control condition (where parents read a brochure). Results indicate that parents who read the narrative shared from the perspective of a high school …
An Application of Socialization Resources Theory
Student-athletes’ adjustment to their collegiate teams is noted as especially difficult but is also underdeveloped as a topic of research. This article uses Socialization Resources theory to argue that student-athletes’ leader-member exchanges with coaches and team-member exchanges with teammates provide them with important resources that assist in their socialization. Data collected from 160 Division-I student-athletes from five universities dem…
Transcontextual Effects of Racialized Sports Media Framing
This research examines the effects of racial stereotypes embedded within sports media. An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of racialized “brawn” and “brain” frames on perceptions of student-athletes among their potential peers. College student participants ( N = 232) were exposed to one of eight versions of a news article about a college football recruit that manipulated the athlete’s race (White vs. Black) and the frame used to des…
Next Person Up”
The present study explored collegiate student-athletes’ socialization experiences following teammate exit. Fourteen student-athletes (six male and eight female) from nonrevenue-generating sports at two universities (a Division I and a Division II) participated in semistructured interviews. Three major focuses structured this study: (a) meaning attributed to teammate exit, (b) alteration of student-athletes’ tasks and roles, and (c) changes to stu…
Division-I Student-Athletes’ Affective and Cognitive Responses to Receiving Confirmation From Their Head Coach
Empirical evidence of its effectiveness, however, has been limited to athlete affect and based on data from retrospective samples of former high school athletes. This study addresses these limitations by exploring the effectiveness of coaches’ use of confirmation with collegiate student-athletes and considers its influence on their satisfaction with coaches and sport, competitiveness, and cognitive learning. Data obtained from 177 Division-I stud…
Quantifying Coach Confirmation
The lack of appropriate measurement to assess athlete-coach interaction and athletes’ psychological states has historically plagued sport studies research (i.e., an encompassing term for sport psychology, management, sociology, and communication) and may partially explain the lack of empirical research regarding athlete-coach interaction within the emerging field of sport communication. Without valid and reliable tools to assess athlete-coach int…
Memorable Messages of Social Support That Former High School Athletes Received From Their Head Coaches
Social support is an important resource that coaches provide to athletes. However, the specific messages that coaches utilize to support athletes have remained overlooked. This study examines the memorable messages (i.e., enduring and influential messages) of informational, esteem, and emotional support that former high school athletes recall receiving from their head coaches. To accomplish this purpose, messages were inductively derived from 102…
Challenge Me!”
Confirmation theory is a theoretical framework that forwards that the communication of acceptance and challenge to recipients promotes prosocial environments that foster positive affect, attitudes, and behaviors. This study utilized confirmation theory to better understand the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation on athletes’ satisfaction and motivation to play their sport. Data collected from 132 former high school athletes indicated that t…
Effects of Cohesion With Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health
Collegiate student-athletes are experiencing an ongoing mental health epidemic, especially concerning anxiety and depression. This study builds upon the meta-theory of the human need to belong and the transactional theory of stress and coping by framing stress as a mediator for the benefits of cohesion between teammates on mental health. Data from 121 Division-I student-athletes demonstrated a fully mediated model whereby task cohesion indirectly…
Everyone Hates the NCAA
This manuscript is a case study into public responses to an amateurism transgression committed by Chase Young, a former Ohio State University football player and Heisman candidate. In November of 2019, Young utilized his personal Twitter to announce an amateurism transgression stemming from his acceptance of an improper loan. This study considers 1,674 public and direct replies to Young on Twitter. A variety of themes were identified, including a…
Setting the Agenda
Sports are a pervasive and salient component of society, which have only recently received considerable attention from communication scholars. Although significant gains in knowledge have been made, there is a great need to explore the role and importance of interactions with family in the determination of sports participation or experiences, how families manage their sporting and familial roles, and the formation of identities and relationships.…
I Disagree”
Effective coaches must understand and manage athletes’ expressions of disagreement or dissatisfaction. The current study identified the triggering events that athletes reported as the impetus for their dissent, the messages that they utilized when dissenting, and the success of these messages. Four categories of triggers were identified within data collected from 262 former high school athletes: (a) performance issues, (b) power and influence, (c…
A Continuation of Sport Teams From an Organizational Perspective
Previous research suggests athletes’ leader–member exchanges (LMX) with coaches are associated with subsequent communication and relationships with coaches and teammates, as athletes with in-group relationships experience more prosocial outcomes than athletes without these relationships. Thus, the formation of in-group relationships is desirable, but extant literature has provided little insight into how coaches can foster these relationships. Th…
SocialMediaSport
In 1998, sport communication scholar Lawrence Wenner coined MediaSport as the “cultural fusing of sport with communication” (p. xiii).The concept – and the associated volume of the same name – attempted to explain the increased political, social, economic and cultural influence of spectator sports on society, as well as the fusing of sports as both performance and mediated entertainment.The specific focus on spectator sports is no happenstance: a…
A Continuation of Sport Teams From an Organizational Perspective
Previous research suggests athletes’ leader–member exchanges (LMX) with coaches are associated with subsequent communication and relationships with coaches and teammates, as athletes with in-group relationships experience more prosocial outcomes than athletes without these relationships. Thus, the formation of in-group relationships is desirable, but extant literature has provided little insight into how coaches can foster these relationships. Th…
Sports Teams as Organizations
Sport teams by definition can be considered a type of organization; yet, the incorporation of an organizational perspective has not been utilized to examine athletes’ interactions. The current study utilizes leader–member exchange theory as theoretical lens to examine the influence that athlete–coach communication has on relationships and communication with coaches and teammates. A sample of 158 former high school athletes produced results that i…
Quantifying Coach Confirmation
The lack of appropriate measurement to assess athlete-coach interaction and athletes’ psychological states has historically plagued sport studies research (i.e., an encompassing term for sport psychology, management, sociology, and communication) and may partially explain the lack of empirical research regarding athlete-coach interaction within the emerging field of sport communication. Without valid and reliable tools to assess athlete-coach int…
Memorable Messages of Social Support That Former High School Athletes Received From Their Head Coaches
Social support is an important resource that coaches provide to athletes. However, the specific messages that coaches utilize to support athletes have remained overlooked. This study examines the memorable messages (i.e., enduring and influential messages) of informational, esteem, and emotional support that former high school athletes recall receiving from their head coaches. To accomplish this purpose, messages were inductively derived from 102…
Challenge Me!”
Confirmation theory is a theoretical framework that forwards that the communication of acceptance and challenge to recipients promotes prosocial environments that foster positive affect, attitudes, and behaviors. This study utilized confirmation theory to better understand the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation on athletes’ satisfaction and motivation to play their sport. Data collected from 132 former high school athletes indicated that t…
I Disagree”
Effective coaches must understand and manage athletes’ expressions of disagreement or dissatisfaction. The current study identified the triggering events that athletes reported as the impetus for their dissent, the messages that they utilized when dissenting, and the success of these messages. Four categories of triggers were identified within data collected from 262 former high school athletes: (a) performance issues, (b) power and influence, (c…
An Application of Socialization Resources Theory
Student-athletes’ adjustment to their collegiate teams is noted as especially difficult but is also underdeveloped as a topic of research. This article uses Socialization Resources theory to argue that student-athletes’ leader-member exchanges with coaches and team-member exchanges with teammates provide them with important resources that assist in their socialization. Data collected from 160 Division-I student-athletes from five universities dem…
High School Athletes’ Reports of Confirmation as a Function of Starting Status and Leader–Member Exchange
Previous research indicates that athletes report receiving disparate levels of confirmation, which is consequential given the psychological, emotional, and cognitive benefits of being confirmed. This article explains head coaches’ use of confirmation, which is comprised of accepting and challenging communication, as a function of athletes’ roles and leader–member exchange (LMX). LMX with head coaches, however, accounted for much larger portions o…
Transcontextual Effects of Racialized Sports Media Framing
This research examines the effects of racial stereotypes embedded within sports media. An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of racialized “brawn” and “brain” frames on perceptions of student-athletes among their potential peers. College student participants ( N = 232) were exposed to one of eight versions of a news article about a college football recruit that manipulated the athlete’s race (White vs. Black) and the frame used to des…
Next Person Up”
The present study explored collegiate student-athletes’ socialization experiences following teammate exit. Fourteen student-athletes (six male and eight female) from nonrevenue-generating sports at two universities (a Division I and a Division II) participated in semistructured interviews. Three major focuses structured this study: (a) meaning attributed to teammate exit, (b) alteration of student-athletes’ tasks and roles, and (c) changes to stu…
Division-I Student-Athletes’ Affective and Cognitive Responses to Receiving Confirmation From Their Head Coach
Empirical evidence of its effectiveness, however, has been limited to athlete affect and based on data from retrospective samples of former high school athletes. This study addresses these limitations by exploring the effectiveness of coaches’ use of confirmation with collegiate student-athletes and considers its influence on their satisfaction with coaches and sport, competitiveness, and cognitive learning. Data obtained from 177 Division-I stud…
Communication for the win
There is a heuristic and practical need to identify prosocial coaching behaviors that benefit both the relational climates on sports teams and team performance. This study considers the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation (i.e., consisting of acceptance and challenge) on student-athletes’ self-confidence, team task cohesion, and team winning. Data collected from 117 Division-I student-athletes, who participated in team sports, partially sup…
Media Narratives About Concussions
This study examined the effects of media narratives about concussions on parent’s intentions to inform their children about concussions. A randomized experiment of 600 parents whose children play football in middle school or high school were presented with one of the five narrative conditions or the control condition (where parents read a brochure). Results indicate that parents who read the narrative shared from the perspective of a high school …
Setting the Agenda
Sports are a pervasive and salient component of society, which have only recently received considerable attention from communication scholars. Although significant gains in knowledge have been made, there is a great need to explore the role and importance of interactions with family in the determination of sports participation or experiences, how families manage their sporting and familial roles, and the formation of identities and relationships.…
Exploring the role of parents’ sport orientations in the efficacy of concussion intervention materials
Investigations into parents’ role as health referents in the management of sport-related concussion (SRC) are on the rise. This study contributes to these efforts by exploring the efficacy of concussion intervention materials to promote conversational intentions because of parents’ orientations toward football and SRC management. Data collected from 600 parents of middle and high school football players offered support for an indirect effect of f…
Everyone Hates the NCAA
This manuscript is a case study into public responses to an amateurism transgression committed by Chase Young, a former Ohio State University football player and Heisman candidate. In November of 2019, Young utilized his personal Twitter to announce an amateurism transgression stemming from his acceptance of an improper loan. This study considers 1,674 public and direct replies to Young on Twitter. A variety of themes were identified, including a…
Sport Knowledge
Sporting environments are informal contexts of learning that are dependent upon coaches’ use of effective instructional communication strategies. Coaches’ use of power while communicating instruction to athletes is especially germane, as coaches must appropriately use relational influence to inspire optimal athletic performance. Using French and Raven’s power bases (i.e., expert, referent, reward, legitimate, and coercive power), this study consi…
Parent–Child Communication regarding Sport-Related Concussion
Extant research has discussed the importance of social climates surrounding sport-related concussion (SRC) reporting, especially the need to address parents/guardians’ role in concussion management. This study explores parents/guardians’ intentions toward SRC-related conversations with their children and their seeking of conversational resources via the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Data collected from 292 parents/guardians of 1st-12th grader…
Beyond the classroom
The first year of college is challenging for students as they learn to navigate new surroundings away from their established social support systems. This study examined the adjustment of first-year students through the lens of socialization resources theory (SRT). According to SRT, adaption to novel environments is partly due to social support. Although researchers have examined the importance of parental and peer support for students independent…
“That’s it. i’m done with this team!”
This study utilizes social identity theory to explore fan responses to the NFL teams’ racial advocacy on Twitter at the start of the 2020 football season. A content analysis of 2,868 direct replies and their corresponding user profiles was conducted. Findings supported SIT’s propositions about in-group bias, with commenters being more supportive and less critical of the activist messaging from the official accounts of teams for whom they express …
Activating stereotypes through sports media
This research investigates whether stereotypes activated by common media portrayals of Black athletes that emphasize physicality influence social judgments outside the sporting context. Results of a 2 (athlete race) X 2 (athlete frame) between-subjects experiment indicated that when an athlete was framed in terms of physical attributes, participants evaluated a suspect in a subsequent news story based on overlapping qualities related to criminali…
Athletes’ displaced dissent on social media
Organizational dissent is ubiquitous in task-oriented groups, including sports teams and leagues. Yet, how and to whom that dissent is voiced and the responses to dissent can vary extensively. This study investigates how professional athletes enact displaced dissent and how the public reacts via sentiment analysis of Trevor Bauer’s YouTube channel. Findings identified 53 triggering agents that were consistent with those of subordinates in traditi…
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates
Binge drinking is a major public health concern on college campuses and shares a deep connection to sporting culture. As such, student-athletes are potential referent points for addressing this destructive behavior among the student body. This study utilizes the theoretical frameworks of the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) and parasocial relationships (PSRs) to investigate the effects that student-athletes’ health advocacy has on college stude…
Why Can’t We Play on Grass?”
This manuscript considers public discourse surrounding the link between playing surface and lower-extremity injuries within the context of a case study on New York Giants’ wide-receiver Sterling Shepard’s anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear, with an aim to identify and explain the use of narratives as a function of commenters’ stakeholder groups and expressions of fandom. Such an effort extends scholarship on issues of athlete health policy to …
Psychology (30 obras) · Social Psychology (29 obras) · Athletes (22 obras) · Social Psychology (19 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (17 obras) · Applied Psychology (16 obras) · Sport Psychology and Performance (13 obras) · Applied Psychology (12 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras)