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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"supportive communication"”.
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Fraternity and sorority member perceptions of homophily, supportive communication, and group behavior as a function of control expectancies
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of control expectancies on fraternity and sorority member's perceptions of their group. Based on a review of the literature pertinent to this investigation nine hypotheses were forwarded. Generally speaking, the hypotheses suggest that …
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Training 6th year medical students in the use of supportive communication strategies in obtaining a case history from adults with aphasia : preliminary findings
… of 6th year medical students were trained to use supportive communication strategies for the specific purpose of obtaining a case history from an adult with aphasia. These strategies were based on principles of Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA [TM]) (Kagan, 1998b). Results showed …
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“THEY PRESSED THE REJECT BUTTON, BUT WE’LL HELP YOU PRESS ON”: INVESTIGATING THE NATURE AND OUTCOMES OF SUPPORTIVE COMMUNICATION IN COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY FACULTY WHO HAVE FACED WRITING REJECTION
… none have focused on the nature and outcomes of supportive communication in college and university faculty who have faced writing rejection. Specifically, no past research has explored how different kinds and amounts of support from professional sources influence
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The Aphasia Friendly Business Campaign
… individuals, but all forms create pervasive communication barriers that make participation in society difficult. There are well over 100,000 Canadians with aphasia, making this disorder more common than Parkinson’s disease or muscular dystrophy, but unlike those disorders, very few people …
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Communication and Leadership: Faculty Perceptions of the Department Chair
… In an effort to help understand the role that communication plays in effective leadership for department chairs, this study provides an empirical test of Gibb's theory of defensive vs. supportive communication. As such, this project investigated the communication and leadership behaviors of …
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Coming up with New Ideas by Talking to Others: Linking Work Relationships to Caring Communication
… (PANI). We specifically focus on the role of supportive communication within three types of work relationships-coworkers, supervisors, and others outside the organization. Forty-eight questionnaires were obtained from two organizations. The findings suggest that the only work relationship that …
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Social support in parent-child relationships during emerging adulthood: examining the effects of mundane support and the support gap phenomenon
… to enhance our understanding of the effects of supportive communication in close relationships. Specifically, I employed the social support gaps approach to examine whether the discrepancies between (a) the amount of support received and what is desired (reported by support recipient) and (b) …
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Enabling supportive communications in decentralized multi-agent teams
Supportive communication is an eective collaboration behavior identied in human teams in which team members share information proactively to improve overall team performance. Prior work formulated this objective as the Single-Agent in a Team Decision Problem (SAT-DP) where agents decide whether or …
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"I am not a bad friend for having boundaries": exploring the need for and creation of support boundaries in friendships
… explores discrepancies and challenges in supportive communication. This research study investigates support provider experiences and offers new insight for challenges that might arise in supportive contexts. Two primary goals motivated this research: understanding what conditions influence …
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An Examination Of Everyday Interactions Between Fathers And Their Adult Sons
Family communication scholars have noted that in comparison with other family relationships, those between adult sons and their fathers have been overlooked. The examination of this dyad has gathered more attention over the years, but there is still very little work being done to understand the …
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COMMUNAL RESILIENCE AND EMBODIED COGNITION IN PROCESSING SELF-DISCLOSURE OF SEXUAL TRAUMA
… or completed rape in their lifetime. Open and supportive communication can facilitate the reconstruction of shame narratives and subsequent identity formation that may protect victims from the detrimental effects of sexual assault victimization. However, self-disclosure involves the risk of …
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Adolescents' perceptions of sexual wellbeing
… context. The participants identified that communication about sex and sexuality in the family had the potential to promote or inhibit sexual wellbeing. Peer pressure, school sexuality education, and how facilitators at their after-school activity approach sex and sexuality discussions could …
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Family cohesion and adaptability as correlates of overcontrolled or undercontrolled behaviors of children
… Their behaviors were coded on the Defensive and Supportive Communication based coding-system. Through multi-variate analysis of variance it was found that overcontrolled children (shy, anxious, and inhibited) tend to come from families which score high cohesiveness whereas undercontrolled …
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Social Support and Affectionate Communication in Animal-Assisted Interventions: Toward a Typology and Rating Scheme of Handler/Dog Messages
… frameworks of social support and affectionate communication. Two methods of data collection - interviews and observations - were employed to uncover the supportive and affectionate behaviors that occur in AAIs from a handler's perspective. Participants were primarily female, middle-aged, …
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Hope as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: The Communication Processes Facilitating Hope at a Community-Based Support Program
… and in situ group observations, explored the communication processes that facilitate the emergence of hope at a community based support program (CBSP). No literature within the communication field focuses on hope and there are no studies that explore the co-construction of hope through …
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Social Support Seeking Processes in Japan and the United States: A Multi-layered Approach
… collectivism (I-C) as cultural variables, family communication patterns (FCP) as meso-cultural variables, self-construals as culturally influenced individual variables, and face concerns as situational and relational variables. Using the FNT framework, the current study focused on the following …
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The relationship between adolescent identity formation and social network site use
… was moderated by offline parent-adolescent communication. Specifically, among those teens who had supportive communication with parents, there was a strong relationship between amount of time spent on Facebook and advanced identity status. In contrast, among teens with less supportive parent …