The transition to adulthood is typically marked by changes in relationships with family
members, peers, and romantic partners. Despite this, the family often maintains a prominent …

The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell,,) proposes that resilience is
cultivated via interactions and enacted through five processes. When individuals encounter …

Do family communication patterns or family conflict history affect the intention to correct
misinformation shared by family members? A pre-registered online survey with a US sample …

Christian nationalism, or the belief that America should be governed as a Christian country,
is an influential yet fractious political philosophy. This investigation applied relational …

Guided by communication accommodation theory (CAT), this study examined whether
young adults' perceptions of similarity in their religious and political beliefs with a parent and …

Objective To describe the content of parent and young adult coresidence contracts,
attending to understandings of development and adulthood, processes of socialization, and …

Background This study explores and compares the influences of family communication
patterns (conversation orientation and conformity orientation) on family discussion and …

This study tested parents' nonaccommodation of their young adult child's sexual identity and
the child's topic avoidance and surface acting as mediators of family communication patterns …

Family communication patterns theory (FCPT) and family sex communication research
herald openness. However, scholars have begun to question whether openness operates …

Intergenerational political socialization is alive and well in the polarized American polity. But,
by what mechanism do parental views transmit to children? We develop a theory (dyadic …