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Communication Competence Training Within Minority-Owned Small Businesses, Shirleena Racine Baggett
Communication Competence Training Within Minority-Owned Small Businesses, Shirleena Racine Baggett
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Business ownership is imperative in correcting economic issues for demographic groups subjugated to discrimination, inequality, poverty, and other harmful disadvantages. This project supports the idea that building communication competence within minority-owned small businesses and nonprofit organizations, will significantly increase achievement of long-term sustainability and success. The solution is not only creating communication training tailored for minority entrepreneurs, but to allow access in feasible and tangible ways. This study begins by defining communication and explaining its function to assist in moving past the narrative of communication interaction as “talking and listening,” but instead a concept rooted in logic, theoretical analysis, and …
The Influence Of Positive And Negative Couple Rituals On Satisfaction, Commitment, And Dyadic Adjustment, Timetra Marie Hampton
The Influence Of Positive And Negative Couple Rituals On Satisfaction, Commitment, And Dyadic Adjustment, Timetra Marie Hampton
Theses Digitization Project
The current study predicted that positive couple rituals would be positively associated with relationship satisfaction, commitment, and dyadic adjustment, whereas negative couple rituals were expected to exhibit a negative association with these outcome variables. Data for this study were collected online in 2009. Participants included undergraduate students from California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB), the University of Georgia (UGA), and the University of Connecticut (UNCONN).
Communication Technologies And Their Effect On Adolescents, Fabian Valdez
Communication Technologies And Their Effect On Adolescents, Fabian Valdez
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study is to see how substantial the effect of technology has been and will be on current and future generations' relationships. Communication technology is widely available from urban centers to rural farmsteads, and this socializing via the internet has become commonplace in many circles. What society has yet to understand is how this move into the digital world is affecting the quality of interpersonal relationships.
This Is Not A Love Story: A Semiotic Discourse Analysis Of Romantic Comedies, Stephanie Lynn Gomez
This Is Not A Love Story: A Semiotic Discourse Analysis Of Romantic Comedies, Stephanie Lynn Gomez
Theses Digitization Project
This study is an examination of the ideologies present in the highest-grossing romantic comedy from each year in the past decade. Because romantic comedies feature prominent romantic relationships, repeated exposure to romantic comedies may influence audiences' perceptions of what romantic relationships should be like. People who are exposed to media content depicting romantic relationships may rely on those portrayals when they are either considering beginning a new romantic relationship, or evaluating a current romantic relationship.
An Evolutionary Psychology Perspective On Responsibility Attributions For Infidelity And Relationship Dissolution, Kindra Lynn Edmonson
An Evolutionary Psychology Perspective On Responsibility Attributions For Infidelity And Relationship Dissolution, Kindra Lynn Edmonson
Theses Digitization Project
This study investigated responsibility attributions for a partner's emotional infidelity and for a partner's sexual infidelity, and the likelyhood that the victim or partner would end the relationship. This study found a significant relationship between responsibility attributions for a romantic partner's unfaithfulness and the likelihood the relationship would end: the stronger the attributions of personal responsibility the more likely the relationship would dissolve.
The Calm In The Midst Of A Chaotic Life: Learning Personal Social Communication In A Media-Saturated World, Lavonne Michelle Renno
The Calm In The Midst Of A Chaotic Life: Learning Personal Social Communication In A Media-Saturated World, Lavonne Michelle Renno
Theses Digitization Project
This project takes Theatre of the Oppressed and Theater Games to elementary age students in the High Desert, helping them work through emotional issues and developing responses that would enable them to resist the allure of gangs, which offer the pretense of security and a sense of belonging. The objective of the project is to help teach students to have positive interactions with each other and adults. A group of fifth and sixth grade under privileged low income students from the High Desert region was selected to participate in this after school program. The program was based on psychodrama and …
The Art Of Nursing: An Evaluation Of Congruence Of Nurse-Patient Perceptions Of The Healing Interaction, Gillian Yvonne Dargan-Doxzon
The Art Of Nursing: An Evaluation Of Congruence Of Nurse-Patient Perceptions Of The Healing Interaction, Gillian Yvonne Dargan-Doxzon
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study is to pilot a new tool that encompasses both patients' and nurses' perceptions of the nurse-patient interaction. This pairing of surveys will measure congruence of the perceptions between the nurse and the patient.
Predictors Of Sexual Harassment Experiences And Their Cross-Cultural Differences: A Workplace Study Among Women From The United States, Puerto Rico, And Japan, Gustavo Segura
Theses Digitization Project
This study evaluates the influences of individualism, feminism, and extroversion on sexual harassment experiences, as well as the differences of these variables across cultures. Data was collected from 495 female employees located in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Japan.
Men's Gossip, Miguel Orlando Reid
Men's Gossip, Miguel Orlando Reid
Theses Digitization Project
This paper presents seven conversations of men from a variety of backgrounds, in a variety of environments. I analyze the discussions to determine if they can be characterized as typical gossip, and to compare their interaction styles to the men and women of past studies on gossip.
Communication As A Context Of Organizational Behavior, Cynthia Charlwood Pringle
Communication As A Context Of Organizational Behavior, Cynthia Charlwood Pringle
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Computer-Mediated Communication As The Paradigm: Resistance To Technology And The New Style Of Human Communication, Kaori Konta
Computer-Mediated Communication As The Paradigm: Resistance To Technology And The New Style Of Human Communication, Kaori Konta
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
The Validity Of Situational Interview Ratings As A Function Of Channel Of Communication, Seema Thakur
The Validity Of Situational Interview Ratings As A Function Of Channel Of Communication, Seema Thakur
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Beyond Good Writing: The Multidisiplinary Skills Of The Communications Professional, Kimberly Annette Foreman
Beyond Good Writing: The Multidisiplinary Skills Of The Communications Professional, Kimberly Annette Foreman
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Evaluative Interpersonal Responses And Attributions Of Attitude: A Test Of Learning Theory Variables, Robert D. Mone
Evaluative Interpersonal Responses And Attributions Of Attitude: A Test Of Learning Theory Variables, Robert D. Mone
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.