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Item A Comparison of Two Approaches To Parent Skills Training: Parent-Child Participation Versus Parents Only(Texas Tech University, 1979-08) Henderson, Nancy D'AnnNot Available.Item A follow-up study of a skills training approach to postdivorce adjustment(Texas Tech University, 1979-08) Goethal, Kurt GordonNot availableItem A micropolitical perspective of strategic communication between a principal and teachers in a productive, innovative elementary school(Texas Tech University, 1996-12) Moore, Valerie VoglerThe purpose of this qualitative study was to focus on strategic communication between a principal and teachers in a productive, elementary school. The research questions were: What strategic communication does the principal at Walters Elementary School use when communicating to her teachers? and What strategic communication do teachers at Walters Elementary School use when communicating to their principal? Based on the findings of this study, I have three insights. First, strategic communication is the process through which micropolitical behaviors are implemented. Second, people have purposes behind their actions. Third, people respond to others' behaviors as if they are purposeful. Strategic communication between the teachers and principal in this school were found to fall into three categories. First, strategic communication was used to build or strengthen the relationship between the teachers and principal. This communication centered around ceremonial events, trust, respect, friendship, empathy, and humor. Second, strategic communication empowered teachers. This communication focused on training, money, support, extra work, involvement, and creativity. Third, strategic communication was used to relay expectations. Expectations centered around children, appraisals, the suggestion box, the basket, nonnegotiables, and praise. However, these three broad categories, relationships, empowerment, and expectations, were not mutually exclusive because I observed that people can use strategic communication to attempt to accomplish several goals simultaneously. This was a single-case study, and I recognize that different people may have different methods through which they strategically communicate their messages. This study describes how the principal and teachers at Walters Elementary School strategically communicated.Item Acting for the camera made simple: A pedagogical methodology for acting for the camera based on a model of interpersonal communication(2012-08) Valentine, Anthony; Bush, James B.; Donahue, Linda L.; Gelber, Bill; Whitney, Allison; Fried, EricIn this professional problem dissertation, this writer tests a pedagogical methodology for acting for the camera based on a common model of interpersonal communication. The experiment was tested using students at Texas Tech University with experimental group subjects enrolled in Introduction to Acting for the Camera (THA 3311) against a control group of students from Texas Tech of similar ages and experience with similar acting methodologies. These methodologies included those based on Uta Hagen, Konstantin Stanislavski, or similar methods.Item Breast is best but bottle is next: Mothers’ perception of the portrayals of breastfeeding in the media(2012-01-10) Leigh, Jemine; Olson, Beth; Yamasaki, Jill; Shulsky, DebraThe ideology that breastfeeding is a recommended form of nutrition for babies has become widely popular in the United States. However, some social norms like the baring of the breasts make it difficult for the mother to feel comfortable in her nursing practices. The media are often argued to be an influencing factor in public perceptions, and this study considers the media as well as interpersonal sources as influential factors in a woman’s choice to breastfeed. The importance of this study lies in the need to hear from the mothers and their experiences. Concepts and ideas from social cognitive theory, and two-step flow theory were applied in the discussions and findings. This study included eleven face-to-face interviews of women with children and women who are pregnant. This qualitative approach was designed so individual women’s voices could be heard.Item Communication adaptations in public and private prayer(Texas Tech University, 1979-08) Langford, David RossNot availableItem Communication and communal coping in long-distance romantic relationships(2001-08) Maguire, Katheryn Coveley; Knapp, Mark L.Item Communication apprehension: a correlate of helping behavior(Texas Tech University, 1980-08) Kane, Marjorie LauraNot availableItem Communication discriminators between juvenile delinquents and juvenile non-delinquents(Texas Tech University, 1978-08) Sullivan, Chesna R.Not availableItem The communication of influence through technology-enabled media(2006) Turner, Jason M.; Dillon, AndrewItem Consistency and variability in couples' verbal interaction(Texas Tech University, 1979-12) Lemaire, Theo EmmanuelNot availableItem Coping with unfulfilled standards in dating relationships : drawing upon personal and relationship resources(2004-05) Alexander, Alicia Lynn, 1975-; Vangelisti, Anita L.Item Daughtering and daughterhood : an explanatory study of the role of adult daughters in relation to mothers(2016-08) Alford, Allison McGuire; Maxwell, Madeline M.; Donovan, Erin; Menchaca, Martha; Vangelisti, AnitaThis study investigated the role of an adult daughter in mid-life, a time in a woman’s life when she has a personal relationship with her mother based upon shared interests more than dependence for care. Using interactional role theory (Turner, 2001), this study explored the understanding a daughter has for her role as an adult daughter in everyday encounters with her mother. Participants in this study described that when in situations that call for daughtering, they enact the adult daughter role. For this study, adult daughter participants (N = 33) ranging in age from 25-45 years old participated in face-to-face interviews to discuss their role as an adult daughter to their mothers. All participants had a living, healthy mother age 70 or younger. From daughters’ discussions of everyday communication with their mothers, layers of meaning were uncovered which related to the adult daughter role. Using role theory as a guide, thematic analysis revealed six themes of meaning. These findings contribute to an understanding of the social construction of an important role, which daughters learn over a lifetime and which they use to communicate within a family. Discussions of daughtering were challenging to participants due to borrowed vocabulary for describing this role, narrow role awareness, and a low valuation of the work of daughtering. When sorting role influences, daughters noted their mothers and a variety of other sources that inform role expectations. This finding prompted a new manner for evaluating daughters as a daughterhood, or community of role players collectively enacting the same role. Finally, participant responses revealed new ways to conceive of the social construction of the adult daughter role and the practice of daughtering and daughterhood, with outcomes including a variety of comportments for performing daughtering. Implications for future research by communication scholars, as well as for practitioners who work with adult daughter-mother pairs, will be presented with other results from this study.Item Development and Comparison of Two Simulation Techniques for Creating Verbal Interaction in the Classroom(Texas Tech University, 1972-08) Gruner, Cindy GaleNot Available.Item Development of a transactional measure of couple communication(Texas Tech University, 1978-08) Morris, James PhillipNot availableItem Effects of expectancy violations on uncertainty in interpersonal interactions(Texas Tech University, 1989-05) White, Cindy HagemeierNot availableItem Emerging adult friendship : a consequence of family communication and catalyst for well-being(2012-12) Guinn, Trey D.; Vangelisti, Anita L.; Dailey, Rene M; Daly, John A; Donovan-Kicken, Erin; Whittaker, Tiffany AThe purpose of this research was to examine the friendships of emerging adults as influenced by familial environments in order to illuminate interpersonal aspects of well-being. Recent literature affirms that friendships play a critical role in the lives of emerging adults; these interpersonal connections rely on the use of friendship formation strategies and maintenance behaviors. Employing a longitudinal design that included both participant and peer reports, this study found that individuals’ use of friendship formation strategies and maintenance behaviors contribute to their overall well-being and that the path for maintenance behaviors was partially mediated by relational quality with friends. Further, it was expected that the propensity to engage in friendship work (i.e., formation strategies and maintenance behaviors) would be predicted by communication within the parent-child relationship. Recent scholarship asserts that parent confirmation affects both the socialization and psychosocial development of children. The current work employed a confirmation perspective to assess how families lay the groundwork for emerging adults’ communicative behaviors in friendship and found that parent confirmation predicted individuals’ use of friendship formation and maintenance behaviors. Together, these associations pave a social-cognitive pathway from family and friendship to well-being.Item Everyday (re)enactment: reporting strategies in non-narrative talk-in-interaction(2006) Henning, Kathryn Hickerson; Streeck, JürgenItem Facilitating postdivorce adjustment through communication skill training(Texas Tech University, 1979-08) Thiessen, Jake DThe purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of communication skills training on adjustment to divorce and separation. Divorcees were assigned to either the experimental group (N=13) or the control group (N=15). Divorcees in the experimental group received 15 hours of training in interpersonal communication skills along with didactic information regarding various aspects of the postdivorce and adjustment process. Divorcees in the control group received no treatment. Results indicated that the experimental group, relative to the control group, significantly increased in overall divorce adjustment and in empathy skill. Although the experimental group, relative to the control group, showed some increase in self esteem, the results were not conclusive. No significant differences were found between the experimental group and the control group in either perceived social support or self-disclosure skill. Discussion centered on the advantages of structured skills training as a strategy for intervention in the postdivorce adjustment process.Item For Better, For Worse: An Analysis of the Communication Within Work-Linked and Dual Career Marriages(2013-05) Henderson, Joy; Punyanunt-Carter, Narissa M.; Olaniran, Bolanle A.; Hughes, Patrick C.Communication is an integral part of everyday life. Often, there are intersections of portions of life that are usually categorized or segregated that usually pass by without any thought or awareness to their impact upon communication interactions with others. One such intersection is that of organizational and interpersonal communication and the mutual influences that these can have upon one another. To examine this particular intersection of organizational and interpersonal communication this research focused upon analyzing differences and similarities between married couples who are Work-linked (WL) and those who are Dual Career (DC). The findings of this research serve to add to literature and increase awareness of a need for further and continued study of subtlety and nuanced aspects of communication within relationships and the effects that it can have within the lives of the participants and upon those surrounding and interacting with those relationships.
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