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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.
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, ...
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 ...
Speaking about ghosts (cerita hantu melayu): Malay narratives-in-interaction.
(2004)
This dissertation is divided into two parts. In Part One I discuss the literature associated with narrative to make a case for how narrative influences social reality. I find the monologic view of storytelling problematic ...
The effects of information flow, seniority and status on communication satisfaction within a United States federal bureaucracy.
(2000)
The effects of information flow on communication satisfaction within a federal bureaucracy were investigated. Specifically, this study investigated the effects of receiving quality information, feedback, and timeliness of ...