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Communication apprehension in life narratives.
(2002)
A phenomenological study was conducted with eight college students who scored 100 or over on the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension. Each student discussed his/her life narrative in 90 to 120 minutes interviews. ...
An adjustment process and communication dilemma of people with disabilities in Japan.
(2002)
Throughout their lives, people make various kinds of adjustments. Most people are capable of making adjustments in order to survive challenging experiences. This fact is especially true for newly disabled individuals whose ...
Critical thinking: Implications for argumentativeness, verbal aggression and organizational leadership.
(2000)
This study was conducted to determine the relationships among critical thinking, the composite of critical thinking disposition and skill; argumentativeness, the tendency to approach or avoid controversial communication; ...
Romantic partners' communication about their cross-sex friends: Dialectical tensions and management strategies.
(2000)
A mixed method approach (including diaries, questionnaires, and critical incident scenario discussions) was utilized for data collection. Of the ten married couples who participated in the study, only four couples successfully ...
Communication ecologies and contemporary African American families: A study of Black family death rituals.
(2001)
African American families are shown to include an extended group as family during the death ritual process, with a primary relationship among the family, church and funeral directors.
The interpersonal communication of racism: Racism and responses.
(2001)
The focus of this dissertation is on racist messages as they are received and interpreted by ethnic group members and the on the structure of responses to those messages. Specifically the research questions addressed in ...
Institutional review boards: Politics, power, purpose and process in a regulatory organization.
(2002)
Alternatives are offered for consideration: (1) use of more precise terms, for example, distinctions between participant/patient, doctor/researcher, and therapy/research); (2) developing different rules for social research, ...
Caught in the crossfire: Non-combatant communicative practices in Northern Ireland.
(2003)
This dissertation in the area of Language and Social Interaction (LSI) study, approved by the University of Oklahoma Institutional Review Board (IRB) as #2003-233, investigates language use and cultural identity of ...
Communicated values as indicators of organizational identity: An examination of the United Church of God, an International Association's first five years.
(2000)
From these conclusions, recommendations are made first to the organization in light of the results, and second to communication scientists committed to extending organizational identity research. The three recommendations ...
Advice giving and the management of uncertainty for cancer survivors: An exploratory study.
(2005)
Previous research on advice in supportive interactions has focused exclusively on facework, advice content, and receptivity to advice and has not systematically considered the effects of uncertainty management processes, ...