Ascan F. Koerner

University of Minnesota Twin Cities | UMN · Department of Communication Studies

Growing use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) has resulted in an elevated twin birth rate, and a burgeoning population of IVF twins who are now aging into adolescence and beyond. This study tests a model examining whether parental conformity expectations have differential effects on twins' versus singletons' parent–adolescent relationship satisfactio...

Family communication patterns theory (FCPT) explores how family members communicate to create a shared social reality via conversation and conformity orientations. Recently, scholars have noted that the current conceptualization and operationalization of conformity orientation is unnecessarily narrow in scope by representing conformity as controlli...

ملخص الترجمة يحاول مقياس (نمط التواصل الأسري) بيان نمطي الحوار الذي يحدث بين (الطفل والوالدين)، ونتيجة لأهمية تشجيع الطفل على الحوار الفعال، والتعبير عن أفكاره في أثناء الحوار، ارتأت الباحثة ترجمة المقياس الحالي، للاستفادة أغلب الباحثين الناطقين باللغة العربية منه لاستخدامه في بحوثهم العلمية. Translation Abstract The scale (pattern of family commun...

In this study, we theorize that family communication patterns (FCPs) and 2 emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and suppression) explain variations in person-centered (PC) supportive message evaluations. Specifically, we forward an emotion regulation model that predicts reappraisal and suppression will mediate the relation between FCPs and PC...

Study question: Compared to families with IVF singletons, what are parental depressive, parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent adjustment outcomes in families with 11-17-year-old IVF twins? Summary answer: No differences were detected for any measured outcome between families with 11-17-year-old IVF twins and those with IVF singletons, des...

Marital typologies are developed by scholars to better describe and understand the large and diverse universe of what is arguably humanity's most central interpersonal relationship. Such typologies can be based on single attributes of marriages or spouses, or on a single interpersonal process, but more sophisticated typologies are often combination...

Family typologies in interpersonal communication scholarship group families that exhibit unique and distinguishing characteristics of relationship and communication behaviors into different types. Ideally, such categorizations, while often based on some external characteristic such as family membership, reveal important differences in the communica...

Support types are categories of messages and behaviors people use to help others cope with stressful life events. There are two broad support categories, emotion-focused support and problem-focused support. Emotion-focused support is directed at mitigating emotional upset and includes all support types that primarily assist people in dealing with d...

Objective: To examine the moderating effect of parents’ approach to sharing information with children on the outcomes of information-sharing about in vitro fertilisation (IVF) conception. Background: Mental health professionals encourage parents to share information about IVF conception with their children, but limited research is available on asso...

STUDY QUESTION Compared with singletons, what is the parent mental health, parent–child and couple relationship satisfaction, and child adjustment of 6- to 12-year-old assisted reproduction technology (ART) twins and their families?

This research considers how observed tactics and patterns in parent-adolescent conflict relate to family orientations toward communication. Fifty families (mother, father, and mid-adolescent child) discussed family changes desired by each person. In high versus low conformity families, parents (fathers especially) pressured more, were more confront...

Operations Management and Supply Chain Management (OM/SCM), as a discipline, can benefit from proper theorizing to address persistent urgings for better and new theories. This paper hopes to inspire more theorizing engagements through the formal process of metaphorical transfer. Metaphorical transfer transforms casually-invoked metaphors in everyda...

This research examined the content of self-reported thoughts and thoughts attributed to others during video-assisted recall of parent—adolescent conflict discussions. We hypothesized that parents and adolescents tend to frame family conflicts differently and thereby misattribute certain thoughts to one another. Coded thoughts revealed that parents...

Marital typologies are classifications of marriages based on systematic differences among them. An assumption underlying the study of marital typologies is that within any given sample of marriages, a few discrete, meaningful types can be discerned. Marriages are categorized into types in order to understand the communication that occurs between hu...

Adoption and family communication both affect adolescent adjustment. We proposed that adoption status and family communication interact such that adopted adolescents in families with certain communication patterns are at greater risk for adjustment problems. We tested this hypothesis using a community-based sample of 384 adoptive and 208 nonadoptiv...

Two studies apply Fiske’s Relational Model Theory (RMT) to interpersonal relationships and indicate that rather than being models of relationships, relational models are models of relating that are used differently across interpersonal relationship domains. Study 1 (n = 145) investigated the use of relational models in three relationship types (mot...

Family communication patterns theory: A social cognitive approach Editors' Note : Family Communication Patterns Theory takes a view of communication that is both cognitive and interpersonal. The theory grows out of mass media research, built on earlier work from cognitive psychology. We place Family Communication Patterns Theory in the logical empi...

Using grounded theory, 57 narratives of communication scholars detailing their experiences and relationships with institutional review boards (IRBs) were examined. From this analysis, 24 concepts emerged constituting five larger categories characterizing the communication relationship between communication scholars and IRBs: antagonistic actions of...

This research examined communication and parent–adolescent understanding, including understanding about family conflicts, adolescent self-concepts, and immediate thoughts (or “empathic accuracy”). Fifty parent–adolescent triads completed questionnaires, held a discussion, and reported on immediate thoughts during the discussion using video-assisted...

The present study investigates the influence of communication patterns of families of origin on conflict behaviors of adult children in their romantic relationships. Based on self‐reports of 260 participants, differences in conflict behaviors were observed for persons stemming from consensual, pluralistic, protective, and laissez‐faire families. Th...

Two studies investigated the role of conformity orientation in family communication. Conversations of 31 families (Study 1) and 50 families (Study 2) were analyzed employing Stiles (1992) Verbal Response Mode coding scheme to test 5 hypotheses regarding the influence of conformity orientation on the frequency of specific speech acts. Analysis of 12...

The present study investigates the relationship between nonverbal encoding and decoding of positive and negative affect attributed to relational and nonrelational factors and spouses' marital adjustment. Findings indicate that accuracy in decoding of nonverbal affect was associated with the partner's, but not one's own, marital satisfaction. In reg...

In this article, the authors develop a theory of family communication that is based on the schematic representation of relational knowledge. They discuss pertinent issues surrounding family communication and develop a general model of the role of relational schemas for interpersonal communication. Taking the specific environment of family communica...

In this article, the authors develop a theory of family communication that is based on the schematic representation of relational knowledge. They discuss pertinent issues surrounding family communication and develop a general model of the role of relational schemas for interpersonal communication. Taking the specific environment of family communica...

Family communication behavior and family beliefs about how family members should communicate with one another are closely related and combine to create family communication patterns. Two dimensions that determine family communication patterns are conversation orientation and conformity orientation. In this chapter, we discuss theoretical and practi...

The RFCP consists of 26 Likert type items measuring two underlying dimension of family communication patterns: Conversation orientation (15 items) and Conformity orientation (11 items). These items are listed below separately in phrasing appropriate for parents and children grouped by orientation. When administering the questionnaire, we recommend...

This investigation tested the effectiveness of inoculation treatments on 790 participants. The study probed the relationship between threat and involvement, their role in inoculation, and the nature of cognitive processes triggered via inoculation. The pattern of results suggests that inoculation elicits threat, threat contributes to resistance, an...

This investigation attempted to provide further understanding of the inoculation model of resistance to influence. It examined the efficacy of inoculation treatments designed to promote central versus peripheral message processing in instilling resistance to influence, taking into account message processing disposition. The study also tested the po...

The present study investigates the influence of conformity and conversation orientation on how families with adolescents cope with conflict. Using the data of 35 families (N = 117), statistically significant correlations were observed between conformity orientation and conflict avoidance (β = .21, p = .04), ventingfeelings (β = .36, p = .002), and...

Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-261).