TY - JOUR
T1 - Communication Accommodation and Identity Gaps as Predictors of Relational Solidarity in Interfaith Family Relationships
AU - Morgan, Toni
AU - Soliz, Jordan
AU - Minniear, Mackensie
AU - Bergquist, Gretchen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - Guided by Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), the purpose of this study was to investigate how families communicatively negotiate religious differences and how that negotiation is related to parent-child relational solidarity. Specifically, we examined the direct effects of (non)accommodative communication on relational solidarity and indirect effects via identity gaps. Using a cross-sectional survey from emerging adult college students (N = 234), we found nonaccommodative communication is indirectly related to lower relational solidarity through increased identity gaps. Accommodative communication is indirectly related to higher relational solidarity through decreased identity gaps. When parents use accommodative strategies, they may help alleviate the mismatch between their child’s personal, enacted, and relational layers of identity, and foster increased relational solidarity.
AB - Guided by Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), the purpose of this study was to investigate how families communicatively negotiate religious differences and how that negotiation is related to parent-child relational solidarity. Specifically, we examined the direct effects of (non)accommodative communication on relational solidarity and indirect effects via identity gaps. Using a cross-sectional survey from emerging adult college students (N = 234), we found nonaccommodative communication is indirectly related to lower relational solidarity through increased identity gaps. Accommodative communication is indirectly related to higher relational solidarity through decreased identity gaps. When parents use accommodative strategies, they may help alleviate the mismatch between their child’s personal, enacted, and relational layers of identity, and foster increased relational solidarity.
KW - Communication Accommodation
KW - Family
KW - Identity Gaps
KW - Religious Difference
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U2 - 10.1080/08934215.2019.1692052
DO - 10.1080/08934215.2019.1692052
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075052470
SN - 0893-4215
VL - 33
SP - 41
EP - 54
JO - Communication Reports
JF - Communication Reports
IS - 1
ER -