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Communicating for resilience: a longitudinal study of processes and principles for managing organizational disruption
(2021-12-17)
This project explored how individuals and teams employ specific communication processes and principles to cultivate, sustain, and strengthen resilience after organizational disruption. A longitudinal study of working adults ...
Making the Business of Death, Business-As-Usual: The Commerce-Care Dialectic in Funeral Planning
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation, grounded in relational dialectics theory 2.0 (RDT; Baxter, 2011), aims to illustrate what meanings emerge from the commerce-care dialectic when engaging in funeral planning. The contrapuntal analysis of ...
Understanding Emotionally Supportive Family Communication Individuals with MS Experience Through a Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) Framework
(2024-05-10)
Emotionally supportive communication (ESC) has been argued as the most valuable form of supportive communication, which the present study explores from the perspective of individuals living with multiple sclerosis (MS). ...
SHAPING THE FUTURE: THE EVOLVING ROLE OF NARRATIVES IN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL INNOVATION.
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation study examines and produces empirical evidence on how organizational members, who are food pantry employees, share stories and narratives created by the organizational group. This exploration provides ...
Constricting the body politic: Three studies of political communication apprehension and why they matter
(2024-05-10)
Much work has been done to capture people’s discomfort with talking about politics. Previous research suggests people are uncomfortable with political conversations for a variety of reasons, though little has been done to ...
Intercultural Communication Competence Revisited: Reconciling Trait and Relational Perspectives Using Social Network Analysis
(2024-05-10)
What it takes for communicators to interact competently with intercultural others remains a contested conceptual site. This dissertation addresses the debate between the individual and relational perspectives regarding the ...
“I Phub You Because…”: Testing a Theory of Interpersonal Behavior for Understanding and Predicting Phubbing
(2024-05-10)
Phubbing (i.e., phone and snubbing) is toxic to most individuals. Unlike their perceptions that it is rude, they still phub others. With the prevalence of such behavior in the current age of high technology, it is necessary ...