"Becoming a family": developmental processes represented in blended family discourse
- D. Braithwaite, L. Olson, Tamara D. Golish, C. Soukup, Paul D. Turman
- Psychology
- 1 January 2001
We adopted a process-focus in order to gain a deeper understanding of how (step) blended family members experiencing different developmental pathways discursively represented their processes of…
Entrapping the Innocent: Toward a Theory of Child Sexual Predators’ Luring Communication
- L. Olson, J. L. Daggs, Barbara L. Ellevold, Teddy K. K. Rogers
- Psychology
- 1 August 2007
This paper examines an unexplored form of communication deviance—the communicative process of entrapment used by child sexual predators to lure their victims into an ongoing sexual relationship.…
Contradictions of interaction for wives of elderly husbands with adult dementia
- L. Baxter, D. Braithwaite, Tamara D. Golish, L. Olson
- Psychology
- 1 January 2002
The researchers used a dialectical framework to examine interviews with wives whose elderly husbands experienced adult dementia from Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD), centering on how…
Students’ use of power in the classroom: An investigation of student power, teacher power, and teacher immediacy
- Tamara D. Golish, L. Olson
- Education, Psychology
- 1 June 2000
The purposes of this study were to examine: (1) students’ use of power to gain compliance from instructors, (2) the association between students’ use of power and their instructors’ power, and (3)…
The Chilling Effect and Family Secrets: Examining the Role of Self Protection, Other Protection, and Communication Efficacy.
- A. D. Afifi, L. Olson, Christine Armstrong
- Psychology
- 1 October 2005
Two studies were conducted to test a theoretical model of the psychological and communicative links that mediate the impact of the chilling effect on the continued concealment of secrets in families.…
The Chilling Effect in Families and the Pressure to Conceal Secrets
In this study two models were constructed to test the link between the chilling effect and family members' continued concealment of secrets. The direct effects model suggests that coercive power in…
“It Depends on What You Mean by Starting”: An Exploration of How Women Define Initiation of Aggression and Their Motives for Behaving Aggressively
This study explored women's use of aggression, focusing on how they define initiation of aggression and what motives they have for behaving aggressively. Twenty-five women who had used aggression…
Exploring “common couple violence” in heterosexual romantic relationships
- L. Olson
- Psychology
- 1 March 2002
It is estimated that as many as 50% of American couples experience a minor form of aggression called “common couple violence” (CCV). CCV, defined as the result of a couple's inability to…
The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Call for Interdisciplinary Research
- Gwen Hunnicutt, K. Lundgren, C. Murray, L. Olson
- PsychologyJournal of Family Violence
- 1 July 2017
A socio-ecological perspective of IPV-related TBI is presented to provide a contextual framework to guide future interdisciplinary research and emphasizes the need to recognize the complex interplay among psycho-physiological health and socio-cultural contexts.
The Role of Voice in the (Re)Construction of a Battered Woman's Identity: An Autoethnography of One Woman's Experiences of Abuse
- L. Olson
- Sociology
- 22 March 2004
Grounded in social constructionism, this autoethnography explores how one woman's identity was (re)constructed during her abusive relationship—first, how a subjugated identity was created during the…
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