Journal article
Communicating resilience: predictors and outcomes of dyadic communication resilience processes among both cancer patients and cancer partners
JOURNAL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Vol.48(1), pp.49-69
01/02/2020
DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2019.1706098
Abstract
The communication theory of resilience describes five communication processes that serve to promote resilience. This research examines predictors and outcomes of the five resilience processes. This study examines pathways between communication efficacy and relational quality to dyadic communicative resilience processes and from these processes to outcomes of health management and evaluations of dyadic coping. Participants (N = 584) include cancer patients (n = 312) and partners of cancer patients (n = 272). Structural equation analyses revealed that for both patients and partners, increased communication efficacy positively predicts the majority of the communication resilience processes and increased relational quality positively predicts all processes. Although many of the resilience processes are positively associated with increased health management and evaluations of dyadic coping, one process was negatively associated with both study outcomes. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Communicating resilience: predictors and outcomes of dyadic communication resilience processes among both cancer patients and cancer partners
- Creators
- Maria K. Venetis - Purdue University West LafayetteSkye M. Chernichky-Karcher - Bloomsburg UniversityHelen M. Lillie - University of Utah
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JOURNAL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Vol.48(1), pp.49-69
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/00909882.2019.1706098
- ISSN
- 0090-9882
- eISSN
- 1479-5752
- Number of pages
- 21
- Grant note
- 2017 Central States Communication Association Federation Research Prize Purdue University College of Liberal Arts Aspire Grant (2017)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/02/2020
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984309654802771
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