Journal Article Making Friends in Cyberspace Get access Malcolm R. Parks, Parks 1Malcolm (PhD, Michigan State University, 1976) is associate professor of Speech Communication at the University Washington. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kory Floyd 2Kory a doctoral student Department Arizona. Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 80–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01462.x Published: 07 February 2006

Closeness and intimacy are fundamental, but poorly defined, concepts in the study of personal relationships. We sought to contribute a more precise understanding closeness by first examining participants' meanings for friendships, then comparing with intimacy. In self-report survey 270 college students were asked what made their same-sex cross-sex friendships close how close-ness was expressed. Thirteen different derived. Individuals assigned an average three closeness, most common being...

Affection is central to the communicative processes of personal relationships. While several empirical investigations have examined communication affection, there little consistency from study in how affectionate operationally defined, making it difficult interpret findings such research and compare across studies. The present paper reports results a multi‐phase scale development procedure two supplemental studies, involving total 781 participants, utilizing validating new self‐report...

The present study examines differences in the individual‐and social‐level characteristics of high‐affection and low‐affection communicators. One hundred nine adults completed extensive questionnaires about their happiness, attachment patterns, susceptibility to depression stress, mental health, social activity, relationship satisfaction, other variables. Results revealed that highly affectionate people are advantaged numerous psychological, mental, emotional, social, relational...

Affection exchange theory and previous research suggest that affectionate behavior has stress-ameliorating effects. On this basis, we hypothesized increasing would effect improvements in physical psychological conditions known to be exacerbated by stress. This study tested proposition examining the effects of increased romantic kissing on blood lipids, perceived stress, depression, relationship satisfaction. Fifty-two healthy adults who were marital or cohabiting relationships provided...

Affection exchange theory speaks to the benefits that affectionate communication elicits, not only when it is received but also communicated others. Previous research has provided evidence for individual and relational of having a high trait affection level, yet these may partially be accounted by behavior one elicits from others being in first place. We addressed validity this alternative hypothesis project, re-analyzing data which we compared correlations between level various with same...

1. An introduction to affectionate communication 2. Thinking about affection: the theories 3. Encoding messages 4. Decoding and responding expressions 5. Benefits of expressing receiving affection 6. Risks associated with 7. A new theoretic approach 8. Affectionate in human interaction.

Deceptive interpersonal interactions are an ideal venue in which to examine the issue of reality. Interpersonal deception theory offers a framework for considering why deceivers (by convention called senders), coparticipants (i.e., targeted receivers), and observers arrive at discordant views Deceivers' ulterior motives lead them construct through communication version reality contrary what they hold be true. Due adherence Gricean principles cooperative discourse, conversational demands,...

Abstract Recent research on the communication of affection illuminates its implications for mental and physical health. In particular, affectionate has been shown to covary with healthy hormonal variation accelerated recovery from stress. The present study focuses association between marital markers stress regulation, including cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S), their ratio. Twenty adults spouses provided independent reports propensity verbal, nonverbal, support-based...

ABSTRACT The present study tested the general hypothesis that, irrespective of amount affectionate communication one typically receives, expresses to others is associated with body's ability handle stress. Twenty healthy young adults reported on their trait levels expressed and received affection then took four saliva samples over course a normal workday. were assayed for free cortisol, an adrenal steroid hormone physiological responses Controlling affection, was strongly positively waking...

Contemporary theory in interpersonal communication and health psychology supports the prediction that engaging affectionate behavior within established relationships has a direct effect on alleviation of stress symptoms following exposure to an acute stressor. Participants this study were exposed series standard laboratory stressors subsequently assigned either experimental group or 1 2 control groups. Those instructed write letter loved one which they expressed their feelings affection for...

Affection has long been found to be a foundational force in any sort of human relationship, influencing such areas as relational closeness, stress, and depression. One psychological condition that may influence the communication affection is alexithymia, which hinders ability an individual both experience express emotion. On basis exchange theory, we hypothesized mediating effect affectionate on association between alexithymia mental health indices. Participants (N = 347) provided...

This article articulates the construct of affection deprivation, condition wanting more tactile affectionate communication than one receives. Individual- and group-level variance on is investigated its social health correlates are identified in a survey 509 adults from all 50 U.S. states, District Columbia, Puerto Rico, 16 foreign countries. Affection deprivation shows no correlation with age relationship ethnicity, but men report significantly higher average women. Moreover, as exchange...

Abstract Task-sharing holds promise for bridging gaps in access to mental healthcare; yet there remain significant challenges scaling up task-sharing models. This formative study aimed develop a digital platform training non-specialist providers without prior experience healthcare deliver brief psychosocial intervention depression community settings Texas. A 5-step development approach was employed, consisting of: blueprinting, scripting, video production and content creation, uploading...

Loneliness has detrimental effects on physical and mental well-being, making relevant any systematic means of inhibiting its impact. Whereas interventions based cognitive behavior therapies have shown efficacy, Ellis's rational emotive therapy (REBT) not been systematically assessed. In 2019, Hyland et al. demonstrated that the REBT theoretic principles psychopathology psychological health significantly predict loneliness scores, providing an empirical justification for later intervention...

Abstract The present study takes a developmental approach to predicting the amount of affectionate communication fathers give their own sons by examining affection men received from fathers. Two orientations are addressed: modeling hypothesis, which predicts that positive behavior patterns exhibited parents will be replicated in children's parenting, and compensation negative parenting behaviors compensated for children. We combined these approaches advance hybrid prediction that, when...

Abstract The author extended the proposition (V. J. Derlega, R. Lewis, S. Harrison, B. A. Winstead, & Costanza, 1989) that fear of being seen as homosexual accounts for common finding U.S. women engage in more same-sex touch than do men. proposed a theoretic model positing magnitude homophobia's influence on behavior and reactions to is proportional likelihood sexual nature. An experiment involving embraces demonstrated that, although homophobia was negatively related evaluations...

Friendships and sibling bonds are often the most enduring relationships in a person's life. This study examined what makes each relationship close how gender type of affect ways which closeness is manifested. Contrary to previous research on American students, respondents present did not indicate that they were closer their friends than siblings. Rather, emerged as function similarity friendships dependability dyads. Similarly, women men reported equally close; however, was manifested...

The present article details two exploratory studies on the nature of fatherhood and behavioral psychological characteristics that define a good father. In first study, 374 adult men who were fathers at least one child responded to an open-ended question regarding attributes Inductive analyses their responses yielded 20-item list referents. second study involved 99 pairs adolescent or young sons same question. Their coded along dimensions compared within dyads with results from study....

Journal Article Affectionate Writing Reduces Total Cholesterol: Two Randomized, Controlled Trials Get access Kory Floyd, Floyd 1Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205 1Kory Floyd; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan C. Mikkelson, Mikkelson 2Department Communication Studies, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251 Colin Hesse, Hesse Perry M. Pauley Research, Volume 33, Issue 2, 1 April 2007, Pages...

Recent research on the communication of affection has begun to illuminate its implications for mental and physical health. Specifically, when compared non-affectionate people, self-report studies have indicated that highly affectionate people are less susceptible depression stress, endocrine shown more differentiated 24-hour cortisol rhythms (a pattern indicative adaptive physiological stress management). The present extend this knowledge by focusing associations trait with cardiologic...