Pavica Sheldon

Pavica Sheldon
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

PhD

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August 2006 - May 2010
Louisiana State University
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  • Graduate Assistant

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Publications (52)
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This chapter provides an overview of how international students in the United States used media and interpersonal channels to communicate with family, friends, and each other during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter starts by discussing the challenges of international students during the health pandemic. It then provides a review of the role of me...
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According to media systems dependency theory, the more dependent a person is on the media for satisfying their needs, the more important the media will be to that person. This is particularly true in times of uncertainty such as health crises or natural disasters. While several studies have examined how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted international...
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Social support can help buffer against stressors and build employees’ resilience. However, workers of different cultures may vary in their expectation of support. Drawing on organizational support theory (OST), this qualitative study explored the types of support managers and employees (n = 668) from Croatia, Thailand, and the United States expecte...
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Background and aims Social network use is widespread, and the study of Instagram seems to have captured more attention in recent years. However, scale development and validation in the field has fallen short of providing sound scales of Instagram motives and usage patterns that consider the uniqueness of Instagram-related behavior. This paper descr...
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In the last couple of years, a high number of employers started raising concerns about the lack of soft skills in recent college graduates. Many have pointed to social media as hurting our face-to-face communication. Following these concerns, the purpose of our study was to examine the relationship between communication competence and social media...
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Drawing on social cognitive theory (SCT), this study examined the effects of employee resilience, through well-being, on job productivity and relational satisfaction among extraverted versus introverted workers in Croatia, Thailand, and the United States during the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included 832 working adults from...
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According to media systems dependency theory, increased dependence on media to meet individual needs is directly proportional to greater perceived media importance in one’s life and subsequently stronger media effects on one’s attitudes and behavior. This dependency relationship intensifies during times of uncertainty or crisis. Although several re...
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Social media research tends to prioritize how young adults – and college students, in particular – use social network sites. While several studies have focused on how Facebook can help alleviate loneliness among older adults, the motives for using other social media platforms, including Instagram, have not been adequately explored. This study there...
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Given the preponderance of social media in our increasingly saturated media environments , there is a need for greater understanding of how personality traits and states can influence problematic social media use. This study examines whether contextual age indicators (life satisfaction, interpersonal interaction, social activity), the fear of missi...
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Many social media users include #-signs before particular terms on social media – which is termed hashtagging. Recent research indicates that people tend to use the pound key for uncommon words, including ‘artistic’ words that are unlikely to serve functional purposes, and that cultural differences in hashtagging styles exist. The current study exa...
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Hashtags (i.e., the # symbol) are gaining increased popularity among social media users. However, despite their intense use, little is known about their meanings. Only a few published studies have investigated fragmented aspects of hashtags and treated them as a functional means to structure content. In this study, we provide evidence that hashtags...
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Although forgiveness plays an integral role in friendship maintenance, interpersonal communication scholarship has largely overlooked how transgressions and forgiveness are negotiated between friends. This study focuses on gender differences to develop a typology of relational transgressions in friendships. Two hundred and thirty survey respondents...
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One hundred twenty-three married and 93 dating adults completed a survey describing the role of forgiveness in their relationship, detailing relational transgressions that prompted forgiveness, the perceived severity of the transgression, and strategies used to express forgiveness. An inductive analysis of participant responses forms the basis to d...
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谁使用社交媒体?我们能通过社交媒体发展有意义的关系吗?人们在自然灾害和危机发生时是如何使用社交媒体的?隐私已经不存在了吗?教师和学生如何使用社交媒体来沟通交流?广告商如何使用社交媒体来宣传他们的产品与服务?为什么人们会沉迷于社交媒体?本书基于美国的社会情境,梳理了传统人际传播理论、大众传播理论、心理学视域下的社交媒体研究,关注了社交媒体在政治、隐私与安全、教育、灾难传播、广告、网络成瘾等层面的现实作用。与社交媒体打交道的研究者和从业人员,本书不容错过。
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As universities strive to make campuses safer in the face of disasters, both natural and those of human origin, how students respond to emergency alerts ultimately defines the success of these efforts. This study investigates how gender differences impact college students’ responses to tornado (natural) and active shooter (human-made) emergency sce...
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Dating is as common as eating and drinking in the world today. To improve the state of communication in dating, this study examined the nonverbal cues displayed by women when interested in men and male perception of those cues. An observation of 30 women revealed the top seven nonverbal cues used when flirting. Those included smiling, laughing, bat...
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Although Instagram is one of the fastest growing social media, scholars are yet to examine cultural differences among users’ behavior. The current study compares motives for Instagram use between participants from two countries: Croatia, a highly collectivistic culture, and the United States, a typically individualist culture. Specifically, it exam...
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One of the central missions of all institutions of higher education is to provide safe and secure learning environments. While most campuses across the United States are relatively safe, the tragic events at Virginia Tech in April 2007 revealed that campus communities are vulnerable and that technology may play a key role in better protecting it. A...
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The purpose of this research is to experimentally test the impact of emergency alert communications on college students’ threat assessment and resulting behavior. Four different stimuli are created to resemble an actual warning message about a tornado and a shooting crisis on a college campus. Results of the repeated measures MANOVA reveal that war...
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With the advent of the Internet and social media, relationships and relationship formation have significantly changed. This is especially true in terms of finding romantic partners or "hook up" partners. The following study examined motives for using online dating websites and mobile dating applications, as well as attitudes toward those platforms,...
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The popularity of photo sharing on social networking sites has steadily increased in the United States over the last decade. Some research suggests that this increase in photo sharing correlates to an increase in narcissism, or an excessive interest in oneself and one's physical appearance. This study tested how self-monitoring, narcissism, and gen...
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Instagram is the fastest growing social network site globally. This study investigates motives for its use, and its relationship to contextual age and narcissism. A survey of 239 college students revealed that the main reasons for Instagram use are "Surveillance/Knowledge about others," "Documentation," "Coolness," and "Creativity." The next signif...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence professors’ and students’ intentions to add each other as friends on Facebook. Participants were 160 professors and 249 students from different universities in the United States. Consistent with theory of reasoned action, intention was the strongest predictor of them adding each ot...
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The aim of the present study was to explore how two friends disclose to each other on Facebook and if self-disclosure is related to social attraction and predictability of a friend's behavior. Using data from a survey of 317 participants, structural equation modeling analyses revealed that individuals who are socially attracted to each other would...
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For individuals suffering from an eating disorder, the Internet is a place of encouragement and support. To date, however, no comprehensive research has been done to examine particular entries on blogs used by those individuals. Therefore, this study aimed to fill that gap. It focuses on what types of messages individuals communicate to pro-anorexi...
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Willingness to forgive is one of the most important factors contributing to healing and restoring damaged relationships. Although recent studies have emphasized the link between forgiveness and positive communication, this is among the first studies to examine how tendency to forgive influences the strategies married and dating couples use to commu...
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Interactions are characterized by opposite motives according to game theory. The purpose of this study was to explore how people judge the probability and advisability of conflict reactions in an unfolding dispute within a married couple using latent growth curve modeling (LGCM). Individuals participated in a study using two videotaped scenarios de...
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The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among trust, predictability, self-disclosure, and social attraction in two types of relationships: exclusive Facebook friendships and exclusive face-to-face friendships. The term exclusive was described as being a very close relationship conducted primarily through one medium of interaction. Th...
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Few research studies have explored how parental communication influences children's body image. Some studies have looked at parental communication orientation and the development of eating problems without distinguishing between the mother's and the father's communication style and between the daughter's and the son's body dissatisfaction. In addit...
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Previous studies have shown that women disclose to their close friends more often than men. However, no study has compared the intimacy of their disclosures across different media and different relationship types. The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in self-disclosure between Facebook friends and between face-to-face friends...
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Forgiveness and religion have been historically associated. Since religiosity may be helpful in granting forgiveness, the purpose of the current research was to explore how religiosity and gender are related to forgiving communication, specifically to forgiveness-granting strategies and the relationship outcome after forgiveness was granted. A surv...
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A survey of 169 international students was conducted at a large southern research university to investigate the relationship between host communication competence and students' locus of control. Results of correlation and multiple regressions revealed that international students' host communication competence was positively influenced by the intern...
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Young people today live in an environment in which looks are of utmost importance, social support is low, and pressure to achieve the cultural ideals of attractiveness is high. The average American woman is 5′4″ and 140 pounds, whereas the average female model portrayed in the media is 5′11″ and 120 pounds. Although a survey of 224 college students...
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The purpose of this research was to test how social attraction on Facebook influences self-disclosure, predictability, and trust in another individual. Results of a survey of 243 students showed that we tell our personal secrets on Facebook to those that we like. Although many nonverbal cues are absent on Facebook, its users still perceive a high p...
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A survey with 172 students was conducted at a large southern research university to examine how unwillingness-to-communicate in interpersonal communication influences gratifications sought and gratifications obtained from Facebook use. The study investigated the relationship between two dimensions of unwillingness-to-communicate (approach-avoidance...
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T he range of communication media available to young people is rich, wide, and likely to continue to increase in the future. As the number and variety of media have increased across U.S. households (Louie, 2003), many questions about individuals' media choice and use remain unanswered (Flanagin and Metzger, 2001). In 2006 about 88 percent of Americ...

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