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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR)

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JACR is a peer-reviewed journal from the National Communication Association, publishing scholarship that contributes to knowledge about how people practice communication across diverse applied contexts. Website: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjac20

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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
JACR is heading to the Aspen Engaged Conference (July 25–27, Fort Collins, CO)! 🌿 Keynotes from Shiv Ganesh and Joshua Scacco, plus presentations from Angela Gist-Mackey and Rahul Mitra & Mitch McSparin on community-engaged projects. See you there! #CommunicationResearch #AspenEngaged
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Got news worth celebrating? 🎉 New role, promotion, award, or upcoming event — JACR wants to hear it and help spread the word. Share with us: waynestate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Stay in the loop with JACR 📬 New issues, calls for papers, featured scholarship, and community news, straight to your inbox. Sign up today! waynestate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
You're invited to attend our FREE live webinar! Learn all about peer reviewing - how to assess papers, write reports, navigate ethical considerations and more! Register here: spr.ly/6006BBOW84 (Missed our previous sessions? You can still attend this one!)
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
(1/2) Headed to #ICA2026? Join JACR in Cape Town (June 5–8)! 📊 24 Editorial Board members 📊 3 Associate Editors 📊 53 presentations Come see our editors in action and learn more about the journal! #CommunicationResearch #AppliedCom
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#ConferenceSoWhite: “Only 9.37% of presentations were race-related. Most large divisions scheduled race scholarship on the first or last…day or during early morning sessions and empaneled a smaller proportion of race-related scholarship than NCA more broadly.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#Conferencesowhite: The percentage and placement of race scholarship at the national communication association annual conventions, 2005–2024
The Communication discipline has faced criticism concerning the systematic embeddedness of whiteness within its disciplinary norms. This study examined NCA’s annual convention presentation titles (...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
How are you putting communication research into action? If you’re integrating communication research into teaching, service learning, or policy projects, tag @jacr-official.bsky.social and use #AppliedCommunication. We’d love to repost work that connects comm research to broader social impacts.
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Gary Kreps @garykreps.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Rest in peace, Karl Weick! I appreciate your innovative theorizing about actively seeking and sharing relevant information to adapt to difficult situations encountered in life. Thank you my esteemed friend and mentor! Karl E. Weick - Wikipedia share.google/C5zEg051dPTG...
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Journal of Communication @journal-of-comm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Introducing Volume 76, Issue 2, April 2026 of Journal of Communication! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/joc/issue
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Please say hello to JACR's new Editorial Assistant, Mitch McSparin. Mitch is a first year Ph.D. student at the Wayne State Department of Communication, after completing his M.A. in Applied Communication Studies from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We are delighted to welcome Kai Kuang (Tsinghua University), Andrew Iliadis (Temple University), and Joshua M. Scacco, PhD (University of South Florida) as new Associate Editors at the Journal of Applied Communication Research. #JACR #AppliedCommunication #AcademicPublishing
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Legal jargon doesn't just confuse jurors -- it biases them. New research in JACR finds complex courtroom language leads to harsher verdicts and less trust in the justice system. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Nominations are open for NCA's Applied Communication Division research awards! Articles, books & special issues (2025-2026) eligible. Self-nominations encouraged. Submit via NCA website. Questions → maxerd31@umd.edu #AppliedCommunication #NCA2026
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New in the Journal of Applied Communication Research: How do TV portrayals of police shape attitudes toward law enforcement? “Conversations that highlight the populations most impacted by the criminal justice system and law enforcement deserve to be centered.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New in the Journal of Applied Communication Research: Why engaging directly with communities strengthens research measurement. “Our work shows how critical it is to go into the community. Engagement strengthens measurement.” @ldwilliamsonphd.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📣 New research in JACR explores "communication insurgency" — when participants define change in their own terms, not ours. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Organizational learning in the Marine Corps: an academic-military training partnership
This field report describes a communication intervention conducted with the U.S. Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group (MCTOG). The project was designed to build capacity and organizational kno...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📣 New research in JACR explores "communication insurgency" — when participants define change in their own terms, not ours. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Organizational learning in the Marine Corps: an academic-military training partnership
This field report describes a communication intervention conducted with the U.S. Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group (MCTOG). The project was designed to build capacity and organizational kno...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📢 New research shows misinformation doesn't just warp beliefs — it breaks relationships. "When information is partisan and personal, the health of our relationships becomes inseparable from the health of our democracy." @emilyvanduyn.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What is informational is relational: How close relationships are implicated in information quality concerns
In this article, I argue that research on information quality and its effects has focused too much on the individual effects of (mis/dis) information and not enough on both the relational factors a...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We mourn the passing of William F. “Bill” Eadie (1946–2025), the first editor of JACR and a guiding force in communication scholarship. A generous mentor, leader, and passionate supporter of the arts and his impact is lasting.
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣 At NCA? Meet the JACR team! Scholar Office Hours today, 2:30–3:45 PM, Adams Ballroom B. Chat with editor Heather Zoller + meet the incoming editor. Thinking about submitting or just want to connect? Come say hi! ✨
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🚨 Issue 5 of the Journal of Applied Communication Research is now live on Taylor & Francis Online! Print copies will be mailed soon. Explore the latest studies bridging communication theory and practice: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjac20/c...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📰 The new JACR Newsletter is out! Check your inbox for the latest issue highlights, author features, and updates from the Journal of Applied Communication Research. Didn’t get it? Send us a message to make sure you’re on the list. #JACR #CommResearch
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
📢 Volume 53, Issue 4 of the Journal of Applied Communication Research is now live on Taylor & Francis! Explore the latest applied communication scholarship here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjac20/c... 📬 Print copies coming soon!
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🌟 Editorial Board Spotlight: Dr. Karma Chávez (UT Austin) 🌟 “Applied scholarship is praxis—where theory + practice converge… a way to build trust with communities in a ‘post truth’ era.” Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/ams/faculty/...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🗳️ The Citizen Questions Model reimagines debates by centering voter priorities, not media agendas. Community-driven questions make debates more transparent, accountable & legitimate. Read in Journal of Applied Communication Research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
New in JACR: Gain-framed, future-oriented messages boost PrEP uptake among Chinese MSM—without raising sexual risk intentions. Study by Yu Guo, Yiwei Li, Yuxuan Wang, Yongkang Hou & Hongzhe Xiang. Read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PrEP #HIVPrevention
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‘For future gains’: examining the effectiveness of combined messaging techniques on PrEP uptake and sexual risk compensation among Chinese men who have sex with men
This study examined how gain-loss framing, temporal framing, and narrative/non-narrative format influence pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM). Utili...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🌟 Welcome Shobha Pai to JACR as our new Editorial & Social Media Assistant! Excited to have them on board helping share stories, updates, and connect with our community. 💙 Shobha is a second year masters student at the University of Cincinnati. #communicationresearch
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📢 New in JACR: Kim, Overton, Wu, Noland & Moon show that support for corporate social advocacy (CSA) depends on efficacy people back companies more when they believe their support can make a difference. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CSA #JACR
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New in JACR: @inbal-leibovits.bsky.social examines how homeless civic actors & allies co-produce knowledge for policy + social change—and how allyship can both open space and unintentionally reinforce exclusion. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Allyship #JACR
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Knowing the street: on the production of knowledge between homeless civic actors and their allies in the U.S.
Focusing on a case study of homeless civic actors and their allies in the U.S., this ethnographic study unpacks allyship as a communicative dynamic, exploring how it both facilitates and constrains...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Applied communication scholarship bridges research + real-world impact. 🌍✨ We’re curious: What does applied scholarship mean to you? Reply and share your perspective—we’d love to hear from our community. #AppliedCommunication #JACR
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The SSCA Applied Communication Division seeks volunteers (reviewers, chairs, respondents, mentors) for the Birmingham convention. Support applied communication scholarship! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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VOLUNTEER SIGN UP SSCA 96th Annual Convention “Comm - AI - nity: Conversations in the Age of Intelligence” April 8-12, 2026 in Birmingham, Alabama
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
How do Vietnamese American youth navigate #mentalhealth stigma across generations? A new JACR article shows how “honor” & “silence” collide with youth voices for change. Read here - > www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CultureCenteredApproach #ImmigrantHealth
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Culture-centered narratives of support and stigma: intergenerational tensions in the mental illness experiences of Vietnamese American youth
This study explores how second-generation Vietnamese American youth in the US Northeast make meaning of mental illness amid intergenerational stigma and structural marginalization. Drawing on the c...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
What happens when government funding dominates interorganizational collaboration? Read D piece “When resource dependency discourse dominates interorganizational collaboration: a case study of a statewide effort to end homelessness” by DaJung Woo & Tsu-Yi Chien at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Interested in using film & media narratives as a vehicle for understanding and supporting social and behavioral change? See report “Mental models and enduring climate action: the Earth Connection Film Festival” by Jessica Eise, Amanda Camarillo & Sarah Lasley at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1....
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Mental models and enduring climate action: the Earth Connection Film Festival
Climate change is one of the major interconnected social crises related to human health and the environment we face today, and motivating public action is a pressing challenge within that. The 2024...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Communicating #Weather Warnings Demonstrating the importance of public scholarship, scholars @kerikstephens.bsky.social and Hamilton Bean are sharing their crucial insights about communicating weather #warnings. Check out their article at The Conversation: theconversation.com/why-it-can-b...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Update from the JACR Team Associate Editor Julius Matthew Riles continues to make impactful scholarly contributions to the field of communication research. He recently co-authored three publications exploring #Media effects and #communication in #health and #justice contexts:
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Check out JACR online first article, “Facilitation of young migrants’ agency in policy lab meeting interactions: a case analysis in an Italian city” by Claudio Baraldi & Antonella Capalbi at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1.... 1/4
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Facilitation of young migrants’ agency in policy lab meeting interactions: a case analysis in an Italian city
Policy Labs are initiatives promoted to improve citizens' participation in the elaboration of institutional policies on specific themes. Policy labs involve the collaboration of interested citizens...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What happens when a consent contract is introduced in a dance production? Read Alaina C. Zanin, Carrisa S. Hoelscher and Sarah Wilcoxon piece titled “We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation” at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation
This case study describes how members of a dance production negotiated organizational consent by documenting the collaborative implementation of a ‘consent contract.’ This contract functioned as po...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We hope everyone who went to #ICA25 enjoyed the conference. As u revise your papers based on conference feedback, consider submitting your work to JACR. Pieces that are building #theory & insights for practice would be a good fit at the #journal. Submit ur work at www.tandfonline.com/journals/rja...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New Issue Alert We are excited to share with you JACR latest Issue which is now available for you to explore at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjac20/5.... Vol 53 Issue 2 articles address diverse social justice themes including the potential of community-driven research in reshaping #LGBTQ empowerment, 1/7
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Read JACR latest published article, “Beyond ramen noodles: how critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity” by Jasmine R. Linabary, Ziyu Long Rebecca Rodriguez Carey, Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson &Tessa M. Hall at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Beyond ramen noodles: how critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity
Drawing on qualitative interviews, this study explored how U.S. college students engage in resilience strategies in response to food insecurity. While adaptive resilience strategies provided short-...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
You are invited to attend NCA Virtual Learning Opportunity on Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe on Friday, April 25, 2025, 3pm-4:30pm EST. This session highlights how applied insights from #communication #research can guide global responses to rising #Authoritarianism.
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“How do you feel about getting childcare app notifications at work? “It’s a roller coaster of emotions!” one working mom shared” Stephanie. It explores how these apps both support & disrupt work engagement—and introduces the personal paradox of tech in work life. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nominate someone or yourself for NCA Applied Communication Division Awards by MAY 15, 2025, at 11:59 PM PT. These awards acknowledge significant contributions in applied communication #theory, #research, and/or #practice. Send your electronic submissions of nomination letters to mweathers@wcu.edu.
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our online first article, “Rethinking (#LGBT) empowerment: exploring the potential of community-based participatory research project among human rights #NGOs in #Ghana by Godfried Asante, Gideon Adjaka and Iris Nartey is now available for you to explore at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....?
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We are excited to share with you this online first article “Explicating the effects of narrative source and causal attribution on nulliparous Chinese women’s childbirth injury-related risk perceptions & information-seeking intentions” by Ruolan Li & Xinying Yang @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Check out this online first article “Explicating the mechanisms between overwork-related media exposure and workplace resilience: a study of tech employees in China” by Jinyi Ye and Kai Kuang at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Just published! Take a look at our online first article, “Motivating neighborhood-focused health #activism: exploring the nexus of collective efficacy, social hope, and #neighborhood activism” by Youllee Kim and Rachel A. Smith which is now accessible at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"When Chinese only children care for parents with cancer, how does filial piety shape their resilience-building process, and when does it become a source of stress? Grounded in anticipatory resilience, this study offers a new perspective," Nannan Duan.
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‘Naturally, it's me taking care’: filial piety as anticipatory resilience in the temporal flow and stressors of Chinese only children caring for parents with cancer
Amid China's aging population and the increasing responsibilities of only-child caregivers, caring for aging parents has become a pressing social concern. This study applies the Communication Theor...
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The Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) @jacr-official.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@tandfresearch.bsky.social has made some changes to our website. We will work to update the Instructions for Authors page (www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...). In the meantime, if you or someone you know is interested in submitting, here is a description of submission types (see flyers):
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