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Differential effects of leader style and group maturity upon subordinate satisfaction, task effectiveness, and task efficiency.
(1982)
This study tested the effects that four different leadership styles had upon groups' satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency. Fifty-six groups consisting of four to seven members each completed a subarctic survival ...
HOW MEMORABLE SOCIALIZATION MESSAGES FROM WITHIN CULTURAL COMMUNITIES SHAPE ADULT MEANING ATTRIBUTIONS ABOUT WORK: THE CASE OF LEBANESE-AMERICANS
(2013)
This dissertation describes the process by which community messaging obligates members to perform work behaviors in order to achieve full membership status--labeled here the Obligation-based Culturing of Work (OCW). The ...
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, ...
The effects of technological distortion and visual "literacy" in political advertising /
(1997)
This research advances the argument that technology can be used to influence the meaning being drawn by the viewer from the video image. Although using technologically distorted images or not played little significance in ...
Is there still a chill? Student perceptions of gender bias in the college classroom.
(1997)
This study investigates student perceptions of gender bias in the college classroom. Utilizing the Student Perception Questionnaire, Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, and student perceptions of teacher immediacy, ...
Computer-mediated communication and social support among eating-disordered individuals: An analysis of the alt.support.eating-disord news group.
(1997)
This study examined the online community of the alt.support.eating-disord (ased) news group. Using ethnography of communication, one month of interaction among ased participants was analyzed to determine how these individuals ...
Sojourners’ Identity Transformation As A Function Of Cross-Cultural Adaptation: A Communication Model Of Multicultural Identity Development
(2022-08-04)
This dissertation explored the multicultural identity(ies) development of sojourners as a function of their cross-cultural adaptation (CCA). Several theories of CCA, identity, and identity development are discussed and ...
An exploratory study of intercultural communication between Native American and Anglo-American college students.
(1981)
An analysis of the data revealed a linear combination of fourteen interaction analysis variables that predicted cultural membership (canonical correlation r = .96, p (GREATERTHEQ) .0002). Plots of values of the interaction ...
Intercultural interactions in multicultural contexts: "Third tongue" communications.
(1999)
The investigation of this speech community begins with an extensive description of the community and then analyzes the patterns of communication and interactions of the community through assessing various speech events and ...
The communicative impact of an older adult parent on the adult child/spouse long-term marital relationship.
(1998)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the effect an older adult parent living with an adult child/spouse may have on the communication in the long-term marital relationship. This study is designed to examine the ...