Family Communication Patterns as Predictors of Organizational Dissent: A Replication Study

This study replicated a previous research project addressing connections between family-of-origin communication and organizational dissent expression. We predicted that family communication patterns (FCPs), specifically conversation and conformity orientations, would predict upward, lateral, and displaced dissent. As in the original study, significant findings emerged for upward dissent and conformity orientation. This replication study indicated family type as an inconsistent predictor of expressed dissent. Contrary to the original study, we found no evidence to support a connection between pluralistic family types and upward dissent. Finally, as an extension of the original study we analyzed effects of FCPs on displaced dissent, finding an inverse association with conversation orientation. Implications for future research are discussed.     

“I thought I’d have more trouble with white people!”: Exploring racial microaggressions between West African immigrants and African Americans

Racial tensions continue in 21st-century United States through the communication of racial microaggressions. We are interested in the communication of racial microaggressions directed towards West African immigrants by people with whom they expected to be allied, African Americans. Sixteen people who identified as West African immigrants were interviewed about communication struggles with African Americans in this qualitative, interpretive analysis. Owen’s thematic analysis was employed to analyze interview data. Results suggest the communicative impact of racial microaggressions on recipients is far-reaching and consequential. Narratives illustrate microaggressive communication occurs daily through invalidating, dismissive lines of questioning as well as targeted name calling and pejorative dialogue.     

全球化和信息化背景下高校思想政治理论课的教学困埔与教改策略

在全球化和信息化的时代背景下，我国大学生群体出现了政治信仰迷茫、理想信念模糊、价值取向扭曲、社会责任感缺乏等一系列不容忽视的问题，高校思想政治理论课教学正面临着严峻挑战。因此，研究高校思想政治理论课教学困境的成因，并寻求教改策略，是当前摆在广大思想政治理论课教师面前的一项重要课题。     

中国特色社会主义理论体系探析

中国特色社会主义理论体系包括邓小平理论、三个代表重要思想以及科学发展观等重大战略思想在内的科学理论体系。     

护理专业女生人际沟通技巧及不良品质的调查与评价

为提高学生人际沟通技巧,笔于2000年2月至2001年6月对我院98级英语护理专业女生进行了《人际沟通》授课前后调查,以了解护理专业女生人际沟通技巧的现状以及人际沟通不良品质影响因素。结果表明：人际沟通技巧的13项调查内容除“交谈语言技巧”一项p＞0．05,其余各项技巧P＜0．01或P＜0．05,效果有显性差异;影响人际关系的不良品质出现率,课后与课前比较下降明显,其中前五项P＜0．01或P＜0．05有显性差异,教学效果较为满意。     

S7-200 PLC与计算机的通信

PLC与计算机结合起来．可充分利用PLC的优良控制性能和计算机的友好人机界面、数据管理能力，组成高性价比的控制系统。本文介绍通过PLC自由口方式实现与计算机的串口通信。     

美国教育管理理论运动在世界各国的发展路径

“理论运动”是20世纪40年代末至70年代初美国教育管理研究领域中的重大事件。它以费格尔的逻辑经验主义哲学和西蒙的决策理论为理论基础，建立起实证主义的教育管理理论，大力推动了美国教育管理研究和学科的发展，对世界一些国家和地区的教育管理研究也产生了很大影响。     

Dialogue in conservation decision-making

An analysis of the impact of stakeholder consultation during the conservation decision-making processes is presented. Defining and finding opportunities for stakeholder communication within conservation work is an ethical necessity when working with cultural heritage, but the limits and practice of this necessity are less clear. Case studies are used to explore which aspects of the conservation process stakeholders are most likely to be consulted about, and reviews the impact of their views. It asks whether conservators have a preference in which decisions they are prepared to share with stakeholders across three aspects of conservation: the initial appraisal, treatment and the display or storage. Where consultation relates to treatment, conservators are more likely to fall back on their own technical authority except when those consulted are regarded as fellow professionals. Other categories of stakeholder such as artists, originating communities, and religious groups were found to be more constructively consulted on the understanding of the object and on care related to display and storage. Conservators should be offered more explicit guidance on the ethics of consultation, the aspects of consultation that they should engage with and on the ethical ways to deal with conflict arising from consultation.     

Examining the “Blanket of Protection” Conferred by Inoculation: The Effects of Inoculation Messages on the Cross-protection of Related Attitudes

Although the effectiveness of inoculation as a strategy for promoting resistance to attitude change is fairly well established, the potential of inoculation messages to offer cross-protection for related, but untreated, attitudes warrants additional attention from scholars. The reported study tested the “blanket of protection” conferred by inoculation. Participants (N = 118) were randomly assigned to read an inoculation message addressing a target topic and subsequently had their attitudes toward three related, but untreated, topics attacked. The results offer some evidence that inoculation messages can confer cross-protection for related attitudes. Participants in the inoculation condition reported greater perceptions of threat, greater counterarguing, and less attitude change in response to attacks than participants in the control condition for two of the three untreated topics. Counterarguing in response to attacks on untreated attitudes appears to be primarily responsible for cross-protection.     

Reexamining Fear Appeal Models from Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Functional Emotion Theory Perspectives

Recognizing inconsistencies between the extant fear appeal theories and emotion literature, this research integrated cognitive appraisal theory and functional emotion theory into a fear appeal literature and proposed a model that describes a process through which both fear and anxiety can contribute to adaptive responses. Findings from an experiment (N = 927) supported the predictions. Fear and anxiety emerged as distinct constructs. Perceived susceptibility was a stronger predictor of anxiety than fear, while perceived severity was a stronger predictor of fear than anxiety. In addition, greater fear and anxiety led to greater response efficacy through increased motivation to obtain protection-related information and heightened attention to such information, thus mediating the threat and coping appraisal processes. The SEM model testing the predictions showed that perceived susceptibility had the strongest total effects on protection intention, followed by anxiety, perceived severity, and fear.