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Successful socialization of an organizational culture: A critical analysis of the messages of student members of Southern Nazarene University.
(2002)
The purpose of this study is to examine students' messages, gathered through post-exit interviews, in order to compare how they talk about membership in the organizational culture of Southern Nazarene University with the ...
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 ...
Performing Gender - Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Horned
(2021-05-14)
Heavy metal has traditionally been a predominately masculine form of music and artistic expression. Many previous scholars have identified a lack of women in the genre to be one of the leading reasons for its misogynistic ...
Male Internet pornography consumers and their attitudes toward men and women.
(2001)
Grounded in pornography literature from the conservative-moralist, liberal, and feminist perspectives, and utilizing traditional theories of media effects, this study examined habitual male consumers of Internet pornography ...
Communicating identity: Communication processes in the development of group identity through congregational worship rituals.
(2002)
How does communication work in the process of group identity creation and maintenance? This dissertation uses a social construction of reality orientation to seek the verbal, nonverbal, and ritual communication elements ...
Host environment, communication, and psychological health: A study of cross-cultural adaptation comparing Korean expatriates in the United States with American expatriates in South Korea.
(2003)
Future studies in this field could prove yet more fruitful by expanding the range of nationalities of the expatriate groups living and working in a variety of cultural regions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Stress, coping behavior, and social support in Japan and the United States.
(2007)
The purpose of this research is to examine cultural similarities and differences in perceptions of stress, coping behavior, and social support within the theoretical framework of two cultural factors (individualism/collectivism ...
Applying the ecological perspective to stereotypes: An investigation of older adult stereotypes as a function of interaction and context.
(1997)
Findings from this dissertation support all hypotheses. A significant difference was detected in younger adults' perceptions of attitudes associated with older adults. Older adults in an interactive context were rated more ...
Conflict as a relational turning point.
(2005)
Turning points, which represent changes that transform a relationship, are consistent with a dialectical view of relationships (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996). Previous research has presumed that turning points produce either ...
Personalizing the risk of AIDS: Investigating the attitudes, communication and behavior of people living with HIV.
(1999)
Results of this study indicate that prior to infection, HIV positive heterosexuals reported having similar safer sexual beliefs, attitudes, communication, and behaviors to those not infected with virus. Specifically, ...