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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 Protecting your interviewer's face : how job seekers perceive face threat in a job interview(2010-05) Howell, Catherine Ray, 1985-; Maxwell, Madeline M.; Dailey, ReneThe interview is an important component of the selection process for employment and is one of the initial presentations of self by the applicant to the interviewer. As an extension of a study by Wilson, Aleman, and Leatham (1998), this study used politeness theory to investigate perception of face threat in the context of a job interview, specifically, when making requests and giving advice. This study predicted that jobseekers perceive an act as a greater threat to an interviewer’s negative face (appealing to interviewer’s autonomy) when making a request than when giving advice. Secondly, the study predicted that job seekers would perceive an act as greater threat to the interviewer’s positive face (appealing to the interviewer’s desire for approval) when giving advice or recommendations than when making a request. Both hypotheses were supported and other related interests such as acceptability of the act and likelihood of getting the job were also investigated.Item Usability testing and evaluation of the united sorghum checkoff research database(2011-08) Duysen, Corey A.; Akers, Cindy; Chambers, Todd; Irlbeck, EricaAs the Internet becomes available in more rural areas than ever before, there are new audiences looking to the web for information (Agri Marketing Editors, 2010). Sorghum producers and researchers have access to more sites, such as the Sorghum Research Database hosted by the United Sorghum Checkoff Program. The research database currently contains approximately 2,500 articles, with more being added daily. The large volume of information requires that the site be useable so that those interested in gaining knowledge about sorghum will continue to use the research database. When conducting usability testing, the main question is “can people use the site?” More specifically, “can our target audience use our site and will they?” There are multiple ways to test the usability. This study used contextual interviews to ask six sorghum producers and two sorghum researchers just how usable the site was. The study was conducted at the individual’s office location, to determine the effect location had on Internet capabilities. Overall, users were satisfied with the Sorghum Research Database. Recommendations were made to give a list of keywords, add current markets, and further advertise the website. None of the participants were aware the research database existed before the study was conducted. Producers found the articles particularly helpful when they were timely and related to the region in which they were a producer. Researchers identified the research database as a tool for housing all of the research completed, because it could be searched quickly and efficiently. Future research should look to include other user groups that were identified during the study including agricultural extension agents and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) personnel. More research should be conducted to see how producers prefer to receive their information and how they would possibly use the site more in the future.