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Summary of Department Research Completed or in Process
Austin Babrow
Currently engaged in studies of the
construction of uncertainty in the media and is commencing inquiry into
variations in basic orientations to human suffering and transcendence.
Persuasion and Health
Campbell, R. G., & Babrow, A. S. (2004). The
role of empathy arousal in responses to persuasive health communication.
Health Communication, 16, 159-182.
Dennis, M. R., & Babrow, A. S. (2005).
Effects of narrative and
paradigmatic judgmental orientations on the use of qualitative and quantitative
evidence in health-related inference. Journal of Applied Communication
Research, 33, 328-347.
Mass Health Communication
Babrow, A. S. (1991a). Tensions between
health beliefs and desires: Implications for a health communication campaign to
promote a smoking cessation program. Health Communication, 3, 93-112.
Babrow, A. S., Black, D. R., & Tiffany, S. T.
(1990). Beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and a smoking cessation program: A
planned behavior analysis of campaign development. Health Communication, 2,
145-163.
Babrow, A. S., & Dutta-Bergman, M. J.
(2003). Constructing the
uncertainties of bioterror: A study
of U.S. news reporting on the anthrax attack of Fall,
2001. In C. B. Grant (Ed.),
Rethinking communicative interaction: New
interdisciplinary horizons (pp. 297-317). Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
Black, D. R., & Babrow, A. S. (1991).
Identification of campaign recruitment strategies for a stepped smoking
cessation intervention for a college campus. Health Education Quarterly, 18,
235-247.
Black, D. R., Loftus, E. A., Chatterjee, R.,
Tiffany, S., & Babrow, A. S. (1993). Smoking cessation interventions for
university students: Recruitment and program design considerations based on
social marketing theory. Preventive Medicine, 22, 388-399.
Buenger, E. A., & Babrow, A. S. (in press). To
hope or to know: Uncertainty and ambivalence in women’s magazine breast cancer
articles. Journal of Applied Communication Research.
Interpersonal Health Communication
Babrow, A. S. (2001a). Introduction to the
special issue on uncertainty, evaluation, and communication. Journal of
Communication, 51, 453-455.
Babrow, A. S. (2001b). Uncertainty, value,
communication, and problematic integration. Journal of Communication, 51,
553-573.
Babrow, A. S. (in press). Problematic
integration theory. In B. B. Whaley & W. Samter (Eds.), Explaining
communication: Contemporary theories and exemplars. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Babrow, A. S., & Dinn, D. (2005). Problematic
discharge from physical therapy: Communicating about uncertainty and profound
values. In E. B. Ray (Ed.), Health communication in practice: A case study
approach (2nd ed.) (pp. 27-38). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Ford, L. A., Babrow, A. S., & Stohl, C.
(1996). Social support messages and the management of uncertainty in the
experience of breast cancer: An application of problematic integration theory.
Communication Monographs, 63, 189-207.
Hines, S. C., Babrow, A. S., Badzek, L., &
Moss, A. (1997). Communication and problematic integration in end-of-life
decisions: Dialysis decisions among the elderly. Health Communication, 9,
199-217.
Hines, S. C., Babrow, A. S., Badzek, L., &
Moss, A. (2001). From coping with life to coping with death: Problematic
integration for the seriously ill elderly. Health Communication, 13,
327-342.
Hines, S. C., Glover, J. J., Holley, J. L.,
Babrow, A. S., Badzek, L. A., & Moss, A. H. (1999). Dialysis patients’
preferences for family-based advance care planning. Annals of Internal
Medicine, 130, 825-828.
Hines, S. C., Glover, J. J., Babrow, A. S.,
Holley, J. L., Badzek, L. A., & Moss, A. H. (2001). Preferences for advanced
care planning: Differences between dialysis patients and their surrogates.
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 4, 481-489.
Holley, J. L., Hines, S. C., Glover, J. J.,
Babrow, A. S., Badzek, L. A., & Moss, A. H. (1999). Failure of advance care
planning to elicit patients’ preferences for withdrawal from dialysis.
American Journal of Kidney Disease, 33, 688-693.
Health Communication Theory and Problematic
Integration Theory (including the PI analysis of Uncertainty in Illness)
Babrow, A. S. (1992). Communication and
problematic integration: Understanding diverging probability and value,
ambiguity, ambivalence, and impossibility. Communication Theory, 2,
95-130.
Babrow, A. S., Hines, S. C., & Kasch, C. R.
(2000). Managing uncertainty in illness explanation: An application of
problematic integration theory. In B. B. Whaley (Ed.), Explaining illness:
Messages, strategies and contexts (pp. 41-67). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Babrow, A. S., Kasch, C. R., & Ford, L. A.
(1998). The many meanings of “uncertainty” in illness: Toward a systematic
accounting. Health Communication, 10, 1-24.
Babrow, A. S., & Kline, K. N. (2000). From
"reducing" to "coping with” uncertainty: Reconceptualizing the central
challenge in breast self-exams. Social Science & Medicine, 51,
1805-1816.
Babrow, A. S., & Mattson, M. (2003).
Theorizing about health communication. In T. Thompson, A. Dorsey, K. Miller, &
R. Parrott (Eds.), Handbook of health communication (pp. 35-61)
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brashers, D. E., & Babrow, A. S. (1996).
Theorizing health communication. Communication Studies, 47, 243-2
Brant Burleson
Recent research projects have examined:
cultural and gender differences in responses to emotional support strategies;
motivational factors that influence the provision of and responses to emotional
support; and the adaptive function of narratives in coping with loss and
emotional distress in later life. Current research projects include: the
development of a general model of motivational factors that influence
communicative action; the development and assessment of a dual-process model of
responses to emotional support messages; and empirical analyses of how the
tendency to initiate problem discussions with relationship partners is related
to several aspects of physiological functioning, health, and well-being.
Burleson, B. R., & Kunkel, A. W. (1996).
The socialization of emotional
support skills in childhood. In G. R. Pierce, B. R. Sarason, & I. G. Sarason
(Eds.), Handbook of social support and the family (pp. 105-140). New
York: Plenum Press.
Burleson, B. R., &
Denton, W. H. (1997). The relationship between communication skills and marital
satisfaction: Some moderating effects. Journal of Marriage and the Family,
59, 884-902.
Burleson, B. R., &
Goldsmith, D. J. (1998). How the comforting process works: Alleviating
emotional distress through conversationally induced reappraisals. In P. A.
Anderson & L. K. Guerrero (Eds.), Handbook of communication and emotion:
Theory, research, application and contexts (pp. 245-280). San Diego, CA:
Academic Press.
Denton, W. H.,
Reynolds, D. L., Burleson, B. R., & Anderson, R. T. (1999). The role of marital
status in health services expenditures for psychiatric outpatients. Journal
of Marital and Family Therapy, 25, 383-392.
Denton, W. H.,
Burleson, B. R., Clark, T. E., Rodriguez, C. P., & Hobbs, B. V. (2000). A
randomized trial of emotion-focused therapy for couples in a training clinic.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 26, 65-78
Xu, Y., & Burleson, B. R. (2001). Effects of
gender, culture, and support type on perceptions of spousal social support: An
assessment of the “support gap” hypothesis in early marriage. Human
Communication Research, 27, 535-566
Denton, W. H., Burleson, B. R., Hobbs, B. V.,
von Stein, M., & Rodriguez, C. P. (2001). Cardiovascular reactivity and
initiate/avoid patterns of marital communication: A test of Gottman’s
psychophysiologic model of marital interaction. Journal of Behavioral
Medicine, 24, 401-421. (lead article)
Burleson, B. R., & Kunkel, A. W.
(2002). Parental and peer contributions to the support skills of the child:
From whom do children learn to express support? Journal of Family
Communication, 2, 79-97.
Burleson, B. R., & MacGeorge, E. L. (2002).
Supportive communication. In M. L. Knapp & J. A. Daly (Eds.), Handbook of
interpersonal communication (3rd ed., pp. 374-424). Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.
Burleson, B. R. (2003). Emotional support
skill. In J. O. Greene & B. R. Burleson (Eds.), Handbook of communication
and social interaction skills (pp. 551-594). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Jones, S. M., & Burleson, B. R. (2003).
Effects of helper and recipient sex on the experience and outcomes of comforting
messages: An experimental investigation. Sex Roles, 48, 1-19.
(lead article)
Burleson, B. R. (2003). The experience and
effects of emotional support: What the study of cultural and gender differences
can tell us about close relationships, emotion, and interpersonal
communication. Personal Relationships, 10, 1-23.
Burleson, B. R., & Mortenson,
S. R. (2003). Explaining cultural differences in evaluations of emotional
support behaviors: Exploring the mediating influences of value systems and
interaction goals. Communication Research, 30, 113-146.
Xu, Y., & Burleson, B. R.
(2004). The association of experienced spousal support with marital
satisfaction: Evaluating the moderating effects of sex, ethnic culture, and
type of support. Journal of Family Communication, 4, 123-145.
Caplan, S. E., Haslett, B. J., & Burleson, B.
R. (2005). Telling it like it is: The adaptive function of narratives in coping
with loss in later life. Health Communication, 17, 233-251.
Holmstrom, A. J., Burleson, B. R., & Jones, S.
M. (2005). Some consequences for helpers who deliver "cold comfort": Why it's
worse for women than men to be inept when providing emotional support. Sex
Roles, 53, 153-172. (lead article)
Burleson, B. R. (2005). Some ethical
considerations concerning the pragmatic application of research on personal
relationships: Evaluating the safety and efficacy of our prescriptions.
Relationship Research News, 4(1), 14-20.
Burleson, B. R., Holmstrom, A. J., & Gilstrap,
C. M. (2005). “Guys can’t say that to guys”: Four experiments assessing
the normative motivation account for deficiencies in the emotional support
provided by men. Communication Monographs, 72, 468-501.
Denton, W. H., & Burleson, B. R. (2005,
July). Demand-withdraw dyadic communication in cardiac rehabilitation
patients. Paper presented at the International Association for
Relationships Research Mini Conference on Exploring Relationships in Health or
Health Relationships, Indianapolis.
Hyunyi Cho
Research has examined message/media effects on
diverse audiences, perceived risk, self-efficacy, and norms as they relate to
health/risk behaviors; issues related to development and evaluation of health
communication campaigns, and methodological issues in understanding audience
beliefs and behaviors. Recent publications include:
Cho, H. (forthcoming). Influences of
self-monitoring and goal-setting on drinking refusal self-efficacy and drinking
behavior. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
Cho, H., & Salmon, C.T. (2006, in press). Fear
appeals for individuals in different stages of change: Intended and unintended
effects and implications on public health campaigns. Health Communication.
Cho, H. (2006). Readiness to change, norms,
and self-efficacy in heavy drinking college students. Journal of Studies on
Alcohol.
Marifran Mattson
Health Communication Theory and Methods
This group of studies integrates the
principles of communication to design or extend current models and research
approaches to health communication practice.
Mattson, M. & Basu, A. (under review).
Messaging model for health communication campaigns: Toward a social marketing
framework grounded in communication theory and research.
Dutta-Bergman, M. & Mattson, M. (in press).
Decomplexifying communication strategies in response to bioterrorism: Toward a
synergistic crisis communication model. S. Amass (Ed.). Purdue University
Homeland Security Institute Book Series, Vol. 1. Purdue University Press.
Mattson, M., &
Stage, C. (2003). Contextualized conversation: Interviewing exemplars. In R.P.
Clair (Ed.), Expressions of Ethnography: Novel approaches to qualitative
methods. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Babrow, A., & Mattson, M. (2003). Theorizing
about health communication. In T. Thompson, A. Dorsey, K.I. Miller & R. Parrot
(Eds.), Handbook of Health Communication. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Confidentiality and Ethical Dilemmas
This ongoing program of research
highlights faculty/graduate student collaborations
in the study of personal and community safety. These studies consider
alternative approaches to safety that emphasize harm minimization rather than
the elimination of unhealthy behaviors and promote ethical interactions in
healthcare and public health contexts.
Mattson, M., & Basnyat, I. (in progress). A
harm reduction approach to communication during HIV test counseling. For
inclusion in T. Edgar, S. Noar, & V. Freimuth (eds.). Communication
perspectives for HIV/AIDS in the 21st century.
Hall, J. G. & Mattson, M. (under review).
Reframing the discourse to problematize disordered eating and eating disorders:
A thematic analysis of popular women’s magazine articles.
Brann, M. &
Mattson, M. (2004). Toward a typology of confidentiality breaches in health care
communication: An ethic of care analysis of provider practices and patient
perceptions. Health Communication, 16, 231-251.
Brann, M. &
Mattson, M. (2004). Reframing communication during gynecological exams: A
feminist virtue ethics of care perspective. Gendered approaches to applied
communication. P. Buzzanell, H. Sterk & L. Turner (Eds.). Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.
Mattson, M. & Brann, M. (2002). Managed care
and the paradox of patient confidentiality: A case study analysis from a
Communication Boundary Management perspective.
Communication Studies,
53, 337-357.
Occupational Safety in the Aviation
Industry
Funded by grants from the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) and United Technologies and part of a collaborative
research effort between the Departments of Communication and Aviation
Technology, these projects addressed the occupational safety challenges
experienced by workers in the economically competitive aviation environment.
Armentrout-Brazee, C., & Mattson, M.
(2004). Clash of subcultures in on-gate communication. In M.A. Turney (Ed.),
Tapping diverse
talent in aviation: Culture, gender, and diversity.
Hampshire, UK: Ashgate.
Mattson, M., Petrin, D.A., Young, J. P.
(2001). Integrating safety in the aviation system: Interdepartmental training
for pilots and maintenance technicians.
Journal of Air Transportation World Wide,
6, 37-64.
Public Health Campaigns
Funded by a fellowship at
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the following projects are based on experiences and data
collected while working on three distinct public health campaigns which utilize
and extend principles of social marketing, and risk and crisis communication.
Mattson, M., et
al. (in progress). Evaluating the CDC’s DES Update campaign.
Mattson, M. (in
progress). Maintaining the message: Sustaining a risk communication campaign in
the face of anthrax. Crisis communication and the public health. Sage.
Lindegren, M L.,
Kobrynski, L., Rasmussen, S. A., Moore, C. A., Grosse, S. D., Vanderford, M. L.,
Spira, T. J., McDougal, J. S., Vogt, R. F., Hannon, W. H., Kalman, L. V., Chen,
B., Mattson, M., Baker, T. G., Khoury, M. (2004). Applying public health
strategies to primary immunodeficiency diseases: A potential approach to genetic
disorders. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, 53, 1-29.
Susan Morgan
Current research involves conducting and
evaluating worksite campaigns to promote organ donation. In addition, she is
currently conducting a large-scale media monitoring project to discover how
organ donation is portrayed in the media. This work (and other projects related
to organ donation) is funded by the Human Resources Services Administration (HRSA).
Her previous work in the areas of drug abuse prevention and agricultural injury
prevention has been funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) and
the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Current Grants
2004 – 2006 Evaluator/Principal
Researcher, “The Life Share Project: A Multi-media and Grassroots Campaign to
Promote African American Organ Donation.” U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Division of Transplantation, $598,823.
2004 – 2007 Principal Investigator,
“The Workplace Partnership for Life: A Replicable Worksite Campaign.” U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Transplantation, $1.67
million.
2002 - 2006 Principal Investigator,
“The University Worksite Organ Donation Promotion Campaign: Targeting
Administrators, Faculty, Staff, and Students Using the Organ Donation Model.”
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Transplantation, $1.5
million.
Publications
Morgan, S.E., Harrison, T.R., Long, S.D.,
Afifi, W.A., Stephenson, M. (In press). In their own words: A multicultural
qualitative study of the reasons why people will (not) donate organs. Health
Communication.
Morgan, S.E., Harrison, T.R., Chewning, L.V.,
and Habib, J.G. (in press, 2006). America’s angel or thieving immigrant? Media
coverage, the Santillan story, and public ambivalence toward donation and
transplantation. In Wailoo, K., Guarnaccia, P., Livingston, J. (Eds.) Beyond
the Bungled Transplant: Jessica Santillan and High-Tech Medicine in Cultural
Perspective. University of North Carolina Press, Studies in Social Medicine
series.
Morgan, S. E. (2005). Building and evaluating
a theory-based organ donation campaign: An academic and community partnership.
In Lederman, L., Taylor, M., and Gibson, D. (Eds.) The Communication Theory
Reader. Kendall Hunt.Morgan, S. E., Harrison, T.R., Afifi, W.A., Long,
S.D., Stephenson, M., Reichert, T. (2005). Family discussions about organ
donation: How the media is used to justify opinions and influence others about
donation decisions. Clinical Transplantation, 19(5) 674-682.
Morgan, S. E. (2004). The power of talk:
African-Americans’ communication with family members and its impact on the
willingness to donate organs. Journal of Personal and Social Relationships,
21(1) 117-129.
DeSantis, A. and Morgan, S. E. (2004). Civil
liberties, the constitution, and cigars: Anti-smoking conspiracy logic in Cigar
Aficionado 1992-2001. Communication Studies, 55 (2).
Morgan, S.E. and Cannon, T. (2003) African
Americans’ knowledge about organ donation: Closing the gap with more effective
persuasive message strategies. Journal of the National Medical Association,
95(11) 1066-1071.
Morgan, S. E., Palmgreen, P., Stephenson, M.,
Hoyle, R., and Lorch, E. (2003). Associations between formal message features
and subjective evaluations of the sensation value of anti-drug public service
announcements. Journal of Communication,53(3) 1-15.
DeSantis, A. and Morgan, S. E. Sometimes a
Cigar [Magazine] is more than just a cigar [Magazine]: Pro-smoking arguments in
Cigar Aficionado, 1992-2000 (2003). Health Communication, 15(3)
457-480.
Morgan, S. E., Miller, J., and Arasaratnam, L.
A. (2003). Similarities and differences between African Americans’ and
European Americans’ attitudes, knowledge, and willingness to communicate about
organ donation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33(4) 693-715.
Morgan, S. E., Miller, J., and Arasaratnam, L.
A. (2002). Signing cards, saving lives: An evaluation of the Worksite Organ
Donation Promotion Project. Communication Monographs, 69(3) 253-273.
Morgan, S. E. and Miller, J. (2002a)
Communicating about gifts of life: The effect of knowledge, attitudes, and
altruism on behavior and behavioral intentions regarding organ donation.
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 30 (2), 163-178.
Morgan, S. E. and Miller, J. (2002b). Beyond
the organ donor card: The effect of knowledge, attitudes, and values on
willingness to communicate about organ donation to family members. Health
Communication, 14 (1) 121-134.
Stephenson, M. T., Morgan, S. E., Lorch, E.
P., Palmgreen, P., Donohew, L., and Hoyle, R. H. (2002). Predictors of
message exposure from an anti-marijuana media campaign: Outcome research
assessing the impact of targeting high sensation seekers. Health
Communication, 14 (1) 23-43.
Steve Wilson
Several recent projects explore patterns of
parent-child interaction that distinguish families with a history of child
physical abuse and/or neglect from socio-demographically similar families with
no history of child maltreatment.
Parenting and Family Violence
Types of parental and child behavior that
distinguish families with a history of child abuse or neglect from
sociodemographically similar families with no maltreatment history; perceptual
biases held by physically abusive parents. Representative publications include:
Wilson, S. R., Shi, X., Tirmenstein, L.,
Norris, A., & Combs, J. (in press). Parental physical negative touch and child
noncompliance in abusive, neglectful, and comparison families: A meta-analysis
of observational studies. In L. Turner & R. West (Eds.), Family
communication: A reference for theory and research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
Wilson, S. R., Morgan, W. M., Hayes, J.,
Bylund, C., & Herman, A. (2004). Mothers’ child abuse potential as a predictor
of maternal and child behaviors during playtime interactions. Communication
Monographs, 71, 395-421.
Wilson, S. R., & Whipple, E. E. (2001).
Attributions and regulative communication by parents participating in a child
physical abuse prevention program. In V. Manusov and J. Harvey (Eds.),
Attributions, communication behavior, and close relationships (pp.
227-247). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Interpersonal Influence
Compliance Seeking and Resisting – how
individuals go about trying to bring about desired behavior change in others;
how behavior change gets negotiated in interpersonal relationships.
Representative publications include:
Wilson, S. R. (2002). Seeking and resisting
compliance: Why people say what they do when trying to influence others.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Wilson, S. R., Cruz, M. G., Marshall, L. J., &
Rao, N. (1993). An attributional analysis of compliance-gaining interactions.
Communication Monographs, 60, 352-372.
Pamela Whitten
Prior research projects range
from telepsychiatry to telehospice and telehome care for COPD and CHF patients.
She is currently funded to evaluate deployment of telemedicine in nursing homes
and to study the creation of health websites for low literate adults.
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