C Segrin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8526 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C Segrin |
| PRENOMES | C |
| SOBRENOME | Segrin |
| ASSINATURA | SEGRIN C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1797-2503 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 83 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 315 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Consistency in Parental Reports of Overparenting Across Four Countries
The primary aim of this study was to test cross-country differences in overparenting with secondary aims to test for subcultural differences within the United States, and to test differential patterns of association between overparenting and related motivational constructs (i.e., parental anxiety and parental achievement motivation) across countries. Participants were 1,020 parents from China, South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdo…
Explaining the negative association between overparenting and parent-child relationship satisfaction
Research shows that overparented emerging adults experience low satisfaction with parents and the family. To investigate why overparenting relates to low parent-child relationship satisfaction, this study used the three-form design, a planned missing data design, and collected cross-sectional data from U.S. ( n = 282) and Chinese emerging adults ( n = 281). Structural equation modeling was used to examine the hypotheses. Results show that U.S. an…
The social process linking neighborhood social fragmentation and individual psychological distress
The current study assessed the social process linking neighborhood social fragmentation with individual psychological distress. Social fragmentation was operationalized as a perception of limited social cohesion within a neighborhood. Data were collected from two waves in the United Kingdom (T1 N = 705; T2 N = 534). Participants completed an online survey with measures of perceived social cohesion, social support, perceived social isolation at Ti…
Social Isolation Mediates the Effects of Negative Emotionality and Resilience on Drinking to Cope and Drinking Alone
Objective: The purpose of this research was to test an extension of the incentive motivation model of alcohol by examining effects of personality traits on drinking motives and contexts, as mediated by social isolation. Methods: Participants were 1269 adults who resided in the United States (n = 618) or United Kingdom (n = 651) and completed an online questionnaire measuring the traits of negative emotionality and resilience, along with social is…
Exploring the Role of Marianismo and Loneliness in Latinas’ Physical and Mental Well-Being
The goal of this study is to better understand the role of social relationships and traditional gender norms in Latina health. Utilizing Hawkley and Cacioppo’s theoretical model of loneliness and health as a framework, loneliness is proposed as a key component in the relationship between the Latina gender norm of marianismo and health. Participants were 178 female adults who identified as Latina (N = 97) or non-Latina White (N = 81), ranging in a…
Autonomy and overparenting
Recognizing the various negative consequences of overparenting for the child such as poor mental health and relationship quality and delayed transition to full adulthood, this study examined to what extent parents of emerging adults were being responsive and tailoring their parenting practices to meet their child's characteristics, such as need for autonomy and trait autonomy. Survey data from 256 parent‐emerging adult child dyads were used for a…
Loneliness, Spirituality, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Hispanic English-Speaking Cancer Caregivers
Hispanic caregivers experiencing higher caregiving burden than their non-Hispanic cohorts, due in part to contextual factors, such as barriers to accessing health care, challenging employment environments, low education and income, immigration issues, and minority stress. Spirituality may serve as a coping strategy for Hispanic caregivers that influences health-related quality of life (HRQoL), possibly by modifying loneliness associated with care…
Predictors of persistence of post-chemotherapy symptoms among survivors of solid tumor cancers
Pre-onset relational investments and dementia caregiver wellbeing
Dementia alters relationships between family caregivers and their relatives living with dementia. Drawing from the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) and the investment model, this study assesses the influence of dementia caregivers' pre-onset relational investments in these relationships (relationship maintenance and communal orientation) on their individual and relational wellbeing (depression, personal growth, love/closeness). Two…
Acknowledging dementia as an actor in the relationship
Despite the incredible challenges of caring for a family member with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia, many dementia family caregivers exhibit resilience. Framed by the communication theory of resilience, this study examines how resilience processes unfold within dementia caregivers' relationships with their family member, and dementia caregivers' experiences of resilience. Analysis of 27 interviews with adult children and spousal caregi…
Disrupted Sojourn and Forced Reentry
This study explores the unique experience of disrupted sojourns and early reentry among U.S. college students who were abruptly repatriated from their study abroad experience in March 2020. Using a combination of focus groups and interviews with 25 U.S. returning students, the findings suggest that students’ experiences were characterized by themes of accelerated reentry and a deep grieving process, as well as numerous financial, academic, interp…
Parent-Child Relationships and the Health of Incarcerated Mothers
The current study utilizes Hawkley, Cacioppo, and colleagues' model of loneliness and health to examine the influence of parent-child relationships on the health of incarcerated women. Participants were 121 incarcerated female adults who have at least one child, and who completed a questionnaire with measures of parental involvement, parent-child closeness, loneliness, overall health, physical functioning, depression, and anxiety. Results reveal …
Reentry Shock and the Role of Communication in Psychological Health
This study examines the associations between re-entry shock, re-entry communication, and mental health outcomes among 127 students from different U.S. universities who abruptly returned home from study abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic. Re-entry shock was associated with higher levels of depression, loneliness, and perceived stress, and lower levels of life satisfaction upon re-entry. Mediation analyses suggest that re-entry communication expla…
Depression among underserved rural and urban caregivers of Latinas with breast cancer
Among Latino/as, informal caregiving duties are often deemed a family responsibility. Understanding psychological outcomes tied to caregivers of Latina breast cancer survivors is important to identify the impacts of cancer. Secondary analysis of baseline data collected in a randomized clinical trial (RCT) from 230 Latina breast cancer survivor-caregiver dyads. Characteristics of caregivers residing in rural/underserved and urban areas were compar…
Family Connections and the Latino Health Paradox
This study aims to understand Latina/o health from a social relationships perspective. Specifically, a major goal of the study is to explain how despite disadvantages (e.g., lower income and less education), Latinas/os in some cases have superior health compared to non-Latina/o whites, a phenomenon known as the Latino Health Paradox. Based on the central role of familial relationships in Latina/o culture, and utilizing Hawkley and Cacioppo’s theo…
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Mental Health
According to the life stress model, stressful circumstances occur in the context of social, psychological, and environmental features that can function as either resources or aggravating factors, each of which are associated with well-being. This research was designed to test indirect effects of living in disadvantaged neighborhoods on mental health, through reduced social support and increased negative emotionality. This model was tested with da…
Unique Effects of Psychological Distress in Victimization and Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence
Introduction: Intimate partner violence (IPV) reliably co-occurs with psychological distress. However, understanding the precise nature of the association between these two classes of variables, as potential cause or effect, is complicated by the fact that victimization of IPV is not often studied controlling for simultaneous perpetration, and vice versa. It is therefore important to control for one form of IPV when testing predictors of the othe…
When goodbyes matter
An online survey of 528 people who lost someone close to them in the last 5 years was used to test associations between having final conversations (FCs) and depression. The direct effect was nonsignificant, but there were two significant moderation effects. Time since bereavement moderated the FC-depression relationship; there was a negative relationship between FCs and depression shortly following bereavement, but no relationship after more time…
Patterns of intimacy crisis resolution and their associations with romantic loneliness in Polish and U.S. young adults
In Erikson's model of development, intimacy and isolation denote polar outcomes of psychosocial crisis in young adulthood. Drawing on this model, the present study used three-wave longitudinal data to examine patterns of the success and lack of success in the resolution of Eriksonian crisis in relation to romantic loneliness as a negative outcome of the intimacy crisis, and compared across Poland and the United States. The data were collected fro…
When and why we disclose distress on SNSs
Parent– Emerging‐Adult‐Child Attachment and Overparenting
Objective To examine the relationship between parent–child attachment and overparenting during emerging adulthood. Background Overparenting, a form of developmentally inappropriate parenting that features parental over‐involvement and autonomy‐constraining behavior, has been found to relate to a variety of negative child outcomes; however, there is currently a great need for research that attempts to explain why parents engage in overparenting. M…
The Relationship Between Health-Related Quality of Life and Saliva C-Reactive Protein and Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm in Latina Breast Cancer Survivors and Their Informal Caregivers
Introduction: To date, no study has explored associations between objective stress-related biomarkers (i.e., inflammatory markers, diurnal rhythm of cortisol) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Latina breast cancer survivors and their informal caregivers (i.e., family, friends). Method: This cross-sectional feasibility study assessed saliva C-reactive protein, saliva diurnal cortisol rhythm (cortisol slope), and self-reported HRQOL (ps…
Psychological Distress and Social Support Availability in Different Family Caregivers of Latinas With Breast Cancer
Introduction: Latinas with breast cancer draw on a diverse range of family members for informal care. Latin cultures typically prescribe high levels of support and care for an ill family member that leave caregivers vulnerable to compromised well-being. Method: In this cross-sectional survey study, 258 family caregivers of Latinas with breast cancer completed reports of psychological distress, availability of social support, and acculturation. Re…
Overparenting and Emerging Adults’ Insecure Attachment With Parents and Romantic Partners
Attachment theory articulates that social and personal interactions influence individuals’ attachment characteristics. Although research has revealed various negative consequences of overparenting among offspring, very few studies have looked at the attachment features of overparented emerging adults. Relying on cross-sectional data collected from 231 emerging adults ( M age = 24.22 years, 57.1% females) recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (M…
The Development and Validation of the Overparenting Scale – Short Form
Rapidly growing evidence has shown the negative consequences of overparenting among offspring during emerging adulthood. Notwithstanding the proliferation of self-report measures that assess overparenting from the offspring’s perspective, much less frequently overparenting is assessed from the parents’ vantage point that might provide a more holistic and unfiltered depiction of their overparenting practices. To provide a brief and valid measure o…
Primary and secondary goals in the production of interpersonal influence messages
In this paper we argue that an individual's activities, prior to and during an interpersonal influence attempt, may be explained by his or her goals. Two classes of goals are posited: (1) primary or influence goals which instigate the influence process, and (2) secondary goals which shape it. Three studies are reported whose purpose was to illuminate the substance of each of these goals, to examine their relationships to one another, and finally,…
Direct and indirect effects of attachment orientation on relationship quality and loneliness in married couples
This study tested the prediction that spouses' insecure attachment orientation would be negatively associated with relationship quality. It was further predicted that there would be indirect effects of attachment orientation on spouses' relationship quality through interpersonal trust as well as indirect effects of attachment orientation on loneliness through spouses' relationship quality. Predictions were tested on 225 married couples that compl…
Accuracy and Bias in Newlywed Couples’ Perceptions of Conflict Styles and the Association with Marital Satisfaction
Styles of handling conflict are highly consequential to marital success. The behavioral model predicts that spouses’ accuracy in perceptions of each other will be associated with marital quality, whereas the benevolent perception model predicts that benevolent perceptions, even when objectively inaccurate, will be associated with marital quality. To investigate the role of perceptions of marital conflict styles, 194 couples married for less than …
Relationship Development in Dating Couples
This study examined the associations among relationship development, relational satisfaction, and loneliness. One hundred participants in a current romantic relationship and 100 participants in a recently broken-off romantic relationship completed measures of relationship development, including a newly developed self-report measure to assess relationship trajectories and a series of open-ended questions that assessed cognitive appraisals of relat…
Age Moderates the Relationship Between Social Support and Psychosocial Problems
Journal Article Age Moderates the Relationship Between Social Support and Psychosocial Problems Get access Chris Segrin Chris Segrin 1University of Arizona 2concerning this article should be addressed to Chris Segrin, Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 29, Issue 3, July 2003, Pages 317–342, https://d…
Social Skills, Social Support, and Psychological Distress
The social skills deficit vulnerability model predicts that poor social skills minimize opportunities to acquire social support, in turn, leading to the proliferation of psychological distress. This prediction was tested in a 2-wave longitudinal study that assessed 211 emerging adults at Time 1 (T1), with a 70% response rate 1 year later at Time 2 (T2). The results indicated that, after controlling for psychological distress at T1, social skills …
Explaining personal and constraint commitment in close relationships
Relational satisfaction, conflict responses, and perceived relational bond were examined as predictors of both personal and constraint commitment in close relationships. Participants were drawn from married, engaged, and dating relationships. A total of 96 couples (36 dating, 28 engaged, and 32 married) completed an interview and a series of self-report measures. The hypothesized association between satisfaction and personal commitment was suppor…
Social cognitive mediators and relational outcomes associated with parental divorce
People exposed to parental divorce experience a number of relational and attitudinal effects. One such effect, the inter-generational transmission of divorce, involves a greater risk for divorce among those adult children whose parents were divorced. Social cognitive theory would explain many of the outcomes of parental divorce as inhibitory or disinhibitory effects learned through vicarious experience. Predictions from social cognitive theory we…
Dyadic interdependence on affect and quality-of-life trajectories among women with breast cancer and their partners
This study explored interdependence on quality-of-life factors for women with breast cancer and their partners. Multiple theoretical perspectives predict that the emotional distress experienced by women with breast cancer would be shared by their partners. To test these predictions, 48 women with breast cancer and their partners (husbands, daughters, friends, or other relations) participated in a three-wave, 10- week, longitudinal study. Quality-…
Joint Leisure Time in Friend and Romantic Relationships
After research that has identified joint activity time as a relational maintenance behavior, this study examined specific qualitative variables that affect the reward value and maintenance potential of joint leisure time. This experiment manipulated leisure activity type in romantic and friend relationships, and measured the social skills and positivity exhibited in a joint leisure event in the laboratory. A total of 104 dyads (50 romantics and 5…
Relational Well-Being and Perceptions of Relational History in Married and Dating Couples
This study examined how participants perceive their relational history with their current partner, and how those perceptions predicted relational well-being in 66 dating and 65 married couples. Perceptions of relationship development history were assessed through (1) coding of cognitive appraisals in the Oral History Interview and (2) self-reports from a measure of Relationship Development Breadth, which documented whether participants experience…
Young Adult and Parent Perceptions of Facilitation
Overparenting occurs when parents engage in developmentally inappropriate involvement in their children’s lives. This topic is salient in the context of young adults attending college, as this developmental stage necessitates independent decision-making and adjustment on the part of these students. At the same time, the turbulence involved in this transition might engender parental interference and facilitation that could impact young adults’ adj…
Specifying the Nature of Social Skill Deficits Associated With Depression
According to the social skill deficit theory of depression, people who lack social skills are unable to obtain positive social reinforcement and thus become depressed. However, past research is replete with mixed findings on the social skill-depression relationship. The present research was designed to overcome two prominent shortcomings in this research: poor operationalizations of social skill and constraining experimental procedures. In Study …
Loneliness and poor health within families
This study was designed to determine whether loneliness clusters in families and if so, whether loneliness is associated with poor health in family members. Participants in the study were 456 individuals from 169 different family units who completed measures of loneliness, self-reported general health, self-reported physical symptoms, and structural support from family and friends. Results indicated that family membership explained significant va…
The Role of Conflict Resolution Styles in Mediating the Relationship Between Enduring Vulnerabilities and Marital Quality
This investigation examines the role of negative affectivity and conflict styles on newlywed couples' marital satisfaction. The vulnerability-stress-adaptation (VSA) model of marital development was used to explain relationships between enduring vulnerabilities, adaptive processes, and marital quality. Dyadic analyses and tests of mediation were performed on data from 194 couples in the first 5 years of their marriage. Results indicate that wives…
The mediating role of positive relations with others in associations between depressive symptoms, social skills, and perceived stress
Appearance-Related Communication Mediates the Link Between Self-Objectification and Health and Well-Being Outcomes
Grounded in objectification theory, the 2 studies presented here predicted that self-objectification is positively related to appearance-related communication (i.e., fat talk and old talk), and, in turn, appearance-related communication is associated with health and well-being outcomes. Results from Study 1, which investigated only fat talk, revealed that fat talk significantly mediated the relationship between self-objectification and body dissa…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Social Skills and Psychosocial Problems among Parents and their Young Adult Children
The primary aim of this study was to examine the potential intergenerational transmission of social skills and psychosocial problems (i.e., loneliness and anxiety) among a sample of 255 father-mother-adult child triads. These associations, along with the indirect effects of social skills and psychosocial problems, were examined using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that fathers' social skills and loneliness are predictive of their…
Invited Article
In this article, I attempt to demonstrate the value of family communication scholarship that is focused on the well-being of individuals in families and that is inherently integrative in nature. This is first illustrated by examples of family communication research on mental health problems that has been conducted by scholars outside of the field of communication. This is followed by an overview of my own integrative research on family communicat…
Interpersonal Reactions to Dysphoria
Coyne's interactional perspective on depression states that depressed people induce a negative mood in others and thus elicit rejection from them. Research relevant to these hypotheses has been criticized for heavy reliance on interactions between depressed persons and strangers for gathering data. A second shortcoming of this research is that relatively little is known about depressed persons' perceptions of the rejection that they supposedly el…
Internal Working Models of Relationships and Marital Communication
Two studies were conducted to examine marital schemata, attachment relations, and marital communication. The first study involved 162 couples who completed questionnaires concerning dimensions of importance in their marriage, their attachment patterns, and communication patterns during conflict. The second study consisted of in-depth interviews of 18 individuals concerning their memories of early family life and concurrent relational functioning.…
Acknowledging dementia as an actor in the relationship
Despite the incredible challenges of caring for a family member with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia, many dementia family caregivers exhibit resilience. Framed by the communication theory of resilience, this study examines how resilience processes unfold within dementia caregivers' relationships with their family member, and dementia caregivers' experiences of resilience. Analysis of 27 interviews with adult children and spousal caregi…
Family Interactions and Disordered Eating Attitudes
This research explored the role of family interactions on young adult females' disordered eating attitudes as mediated by both social competence and psychological distress. Assessment of the family interaction variables included the perspectives of multiple family members: a young adult female, a mother, and a sibling. Results generally supported the proposed model such that family interaction patterns, namely family-expressed emotion, were assoc…
Perceptions of Relational Histories, Marital Quality, and Loneliness When Communication Is Limited
(2001). Perceptions of Relational Histories, Marital Quality, and Loneliness When Communication Is Limited: An Examination of Married Prison Inmates. Journal of Family Communication: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 151-173
Depression and Verbal Behavior in Conversations with Friends and Strangers
This study sought to determine whether people with depression exhibited social skills deficits in the domain of verbal behavior. Thirty-five students with depression and 39 nondepressed students engaged in a 7-minute conversation with either a friend or a stranger. Results indicated no depressed-nondepressed differences in speech productivity or negativity. However, a number of significant interactions indicated that people with depression who ta…
Primary and secondary goals in the production of interpersonal influence messages
In this paper we argue that an individual's activities, prior to and during an interpersonal influence attempt, may be explained by his or her goals. Two classes of goals are posited: (1) primary or influence goals which instigate the influence process, and (2) secondary goals which shape it. Three studies are reported whose purpose was to illuminate the substance of each of these goals, to examine their relationships to one another, and finally,…
A meta‐analytic review of social skill deficits in depression
The social skill deficit theory of depression states that a lack of social skill is related to the development of depression. However, the findings on this relationship are mixed, possibly due to a variety of variables surrounding the conceptualization and assessment of social skill, as well as the type of subjects used in these investigations. A meta‐analysis was conducted to determine the magnitude of the relationship between depression and soc…
Non)depressed persons’ cognitive and affective reactions to (un)successful interpersonal influence
Weiner's (1986) theory of attribution and affect was juxtaposed with the literature on depression in order to develop hypotheses about the attributional and emotional reactions of depressed and nondepressed persons to three different outcomes of an interpersonal interaction. An experiment was conducted in which depressed and nondepressed participants, who attempted to exert interpersonal influence, met with success, ambiguity, or failure. The res…
Specifying the Nature of Social Skill Deficits Associated With Depression
According to the social skill deficit theory of depression, people who lack social skills are unable to obtain positive social reinforcement and thus become depressed. However, past research is replete with mixed findings on the social skill-depression relationship. The present research was designed to overcome two prominent shortcomings in this research: poor operationalizations of social skill and constraining experimental procedures. In Study …
Interpersonal Reactions to Dysphoria
Coyne's interactional perspective on depression states that depressed people induce a negative mood in others and thus elicit rejection from them. Research relevant to these hypotheses has been criticized for heavy reliance on interactions between depressed persons and strangers for gathering data. A second shortcoming of this research is that relatively little is known about depressed persons' perceptions of the rejection that they supposedly el…
Internal Working Models of Relationships and Marital Communication
Two studies were conducted to examine marital schemata, attachment relations, and marital communication. The first study involved 162 couples who completed questionnaires concerning dimensions of importance in their marriage, their attachment patterns, and communication patterns during conflict. The second study consisted of in-depth interviews of 18 individuals concerning their memories of early family life and concurrent relational functioning.…
Joint Leisure Time in Friend and Romantic Relationships
After research that has identified joint activity time as a relational maintenance behavior, this study examined specific qualitative variables that affect the reward value and maintenance potential of joint leisure time. This experiment manipulated leisure activity type in romantic and friend relationships, and measured the social skills and positivity exhibited in a joint leisure event in the laboratory. A total of 104 dyads (50 romantics and 5…
Depression and Verbal Behavior in Conversations with Friends and Strangers
This study sought to determine whether people with depression exhibited social skills deficits in the domain of verbal behavior. Thirty-five students with depression and 39 nondepressed students engaged in a 7-minute conversation with either a friend or a stranger. Results indicated no depressed-nondepressed differences in speech productivity or negativity. However, a number of significant interactions indicated that people with depression who ta…
Social Skills are Associated with Satisfaction in Close Relationships
66 dating and 65 married couples completed measures of their social skills and their relationship satisfaction. Participants' social skills were positively associated with their own relational satisfaction. Males' social skills were also associated with their partners' relationship satisfaction
Social skills of older people
Previous research has indicated a relation between lack of social skills and loneliness in young adults. This framework was extended to study older adults’ social skills in two experiments examining conversational interactions among older, young, and mixed‐age dyads. The conversations were coded for social skill using partner attention statements as the measure of social skill. Partner attention statements includes partner references, questions, …
A Longitudinal Investigation of Object Relations
Social skills deficits associated with depression
Poor social skills are a vulnerability factor in the development of psychosocial problems
Journal Article Poor Social Skills Are a Vulnerability Factor in the Development of Psychosocial Problems Get access Chris Segrin, Chris Segrin 1(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1990) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona 3Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Chris Segrin, Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Search for other works…
Poor social skills are a vulnerability factor in the development of psychosocial problems
This 2-wave panel study sought to test a social skills deficit vulnerability model of psychosocial problems. According to this model, poor social skills are thought to make people vulnerable to psychosocial problems pursuant to the experience of stressful life events. This model was tested in a sample of 118 students who were moving at least 200 miles away from their home town and making the transition to their first semester of college. At the e…
Relationship Development in Dating Couples
This study examined the associations among relationship development, relational satisfaction, and loneliness. One hundred participants in a current romantic relationship and 100 participants in a recently broken-off romantic relationship completed measures of relationship development, including a newly developed self-report measure to assess relationship trajectories and a series of open-ended questions that assessed cognitive appraisals of relat…
Perceptions of Relational Histories, Marital Quality, and Loneliness When Communication Is Limited
(2001). Perceptions of Relational Histories, Marital Quality, and Loneliness When Communication Is Limited: An Examination of Married Prison Inmates. Journal of Family Communication: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 151-173
Does Television Viewing Cultivate Unrealistic Expectations About Marriage?
One explanation for the high divorce rate in our society focuses on the idealistic expectations with which many people enter into marriage. The media have been cited as the source of or major contributor to these expectations; however, no empirical evidence exists to support that claim. Based on a survey of 285 never-married university students, this study sought to examine the relationship between television viewing, holding idealistic expectati…
Does Television Viewing Cultivate Unrealistic Expectations About Marriage
One explanation for the high divorce rate in our society focuses on the idealistic expectations with which many people enter into marriage. The media have been cited as the source of or major contributor to these expectations; however, no empirical evidence exists to support that claim. Based on a survey of 285 never-married university students, this study sought to examine the relationship between television viewing, holding idealistic expectati…
Symptoms of depression, relational quality, and loneliness in dating relationships
This study tested the hypothesis that symptoms of depression are negatively related to relational quality, which in turn is negatively related to feelings of loneliness among members of dating couples. Potential sex differences in the magnitude of association between depressive symptoms and relational quality, and potential emotional contagion of depressive symptoms within dyads, were also explored. One hundred and one dating couples completed th…
Relational Well-Being and Perceptions of Relational History in Married and Dating Couples
This study examined how participants perceive their relational history with their current partner, and how those perceptions predicted relational well-being in 66 dating and 65 married couples. Perceptions of relationship development history were assessed through (1) coding of cognitive appraisals in the Oral History Interview and (2) self-reports from a measure of Relationship Development Breadth, which documented whether participants experience…
Age Moderates the Relationship Between Social Support and Psychosocial Problems
Journal Article Age Moderates the Relationship Between Social Support and Psychosocial Problems Get access Chris Segrin Chris Segrin 1University of Arizona 2concerning this article should be addressed to Chris Segrin, Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 29, Issue 3, July 2003, Pages 317–342, https://d…
Communication and the Study of Personal Well-Being
Explaining personal and constraint commitment in close relationships
Relational satisfaction, conflict responses, and perceived relational bond were examined as predictors of both personal and constraint commitment in close relationships. Participants were drawn from married, engaged, and dating relationships. A total of 96 couples (36 dating, 28 engaged, and 32 married) completed an interview and a series of self-report measures. The hypothesized association between satisfaction and personal commitment was suppor…
Social cognitive mediators and relational outcomes associated with parental divorce
People exposed to parental divorce experience a number of relational and attitudinal effects. One such effect, the inter-generational transmission of divorce, involves a greater risk for divorce among those adult children whose parents were divorced. Social cognitive theory would explain many of the outcomes of parental divorce as inhibitory or disinhibitory effects learned through vicarious experience. Predictions from social cognitive theory we…
Dyadic interdependence on affect and quality-of-life trajectories among women with breast cancer and their partners
This study explored interdependence on quality-of-life factors for women with breast cancer and their partners. Multiple theoretical perspectives predict that the emotional distress experienced by women with breast cancer would be shared by their partners. To test these predictions, 48 women with breast cancer and their partners (husbands, daughters, friends, or other relations) participated in a three-wave, 10- week, longitudinal study. Quality-…
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