“Forever kind of wondering”: Communicatively managing uncertainty in adoptive families CW Colaner, H Kranstuber Journal of Family Communication 10 (4), 236-255, 2010 | 93 | 2010 |
Expanding the conceptual and empirical boundaries of family communication patterns: The development and validation of an expanded conformity orientation scale HK Horstman, P Schrodt, B Warner, A Koerner, R Maliski, A Hays, ... Communication Monographs 85 (2), 157-180, 2018 | 83 | 2018 |
Communicatively managing religious identity difference in parent-child relationships: The role of accommodative and nonaccommodative communication CW Colaner, J Soliz, LR Nelson Journal of Family Communication 14 (4), 310-327, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
“What do you say to your mother when your mother's standing beside you?” Birth and adoptive family contributions to adoptive identity via relational identity and relational … CW Colaner, D Halliwell, P Guignon Communication Monographs 81 (4), 469-494, 2014 | 75 | 2014 |
The baby blanket or the briefcase: The impact of evangelical gender role ideologies on career and mothering aspirations of female evangelical college students CW Colaner, SM Giles Sex Roles 58, 526-534, 2008 | 73 | 2008 |
A communication-based approach to adoptive identity: Theoretical and empirical support CW Colaner, J Soliz Communication Research 44 (5), 611-637, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
The effect of egalitarian and complementarian gender role attitudes on career aspirations in evangelical female undergraduate college students C Warner Colaner, SC Warner Journal of Psychology and Theology 33 (3), 224-229, 2005 | 68 | 2005 |
Contributing factors of adult adoptees’ identity work and self-esteem: Family communication patterns and adoption-specific communication HK Horstman, CW Colaner, CE Rittenour Journal of Family Communication 16 (3), 263-276, 2016 | 60 | 2016 |
Finding female fulfillment: Intersecting role-based and morality-based identities of motherhood, feminism, and generativity as predictors of women’s self satisfaction and life … CE Rittenour, CW Colaner Sex roles 67, 351-362, 2012 | 60 | 2012 |
“She chose us to be your parents” Exploring the content and process of adoption entrance narratives told in families formed through open adoption AH Hays, HK Horstman, CW Colaner, LR Nelson Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 33 (7), 917-937, 2016 | 46 | 2016 |
Discursively constructing a family identity after an autism diagnosis: Trials, tribulations, and triumphs A Hays, C Colaner Journal of Family Communication 16 (2), 143-159, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
Becoming a transracial family: Communicatively negotiating divergent identities in families formed through transracial adoption LR Nelson, CW Colaner Journal of Family Communication 18 (1), 51-67, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
“Feminism Begins at Home”: The Influence of Mother Gender Socialization on Daughter Career andMotherhood Aspirations as Channeled Through Daughter Feminist Identification CW Colaner, CE Rittenour Communication Quarterly 63 (1), 81-98, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
“This is not the hill to die on. Even if we literally could die on this hill”: Examining communication ecologies of uncertainty and family communication about COVID-19 RA Hernandez, C Colaner American Behavioral Scientist 65 (7), 956-975, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
Political difference and polarization in the family: The role of (non) accommodating communication for navigating identity differences BR Warner, CW Colaner, J Park Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 38 (2), 564-585, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
Mothers’ identities and gender socialization of daughters CE Rittenour, CW Colaner, KG Odenweller Southern Communication Journal 79 (3), 215-234, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
Exploring the communication of evangelical families: The association between evangelical gender role ideology and family communication patterns CW Colaner Communication Studies 60 (2), 97-113, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
Measuring adoptive identity: Validation of the adoptive identity work scale CW Colaner Adoption Quarterly 17 (2), 134-157, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
Created through law and language: Communicative complexities of adoptive families KM Galvin, C Colaner Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication, Second …, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
Communicatively constructing birth family relationships in open adoptive families: Naming, connecting, and relational functioning HK Horstman, CW Colaner, LR Nelson, A Bish, A Hays Journal of Family Communication 18 (2), 138-152, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |