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The transition to parenthood is a significant period of transformation and adjustment for all members of a new family, reshaping relational dynamics that often endure throughout the initial years of a child's life. This qualitative and longitudinal study aimed to explore coparenting representations held by both partners in a parental couple, along with observations of their family interactions, at three distinct points in time, with the aim to better understand the interaction between these representational and behavioral observations. In‐depth interviews were conducted with 17 heterosexual, first‐time parents in Santiago de Chile, during pregnancy and at two different times during the first year of their child's life. Family interactions were assessed using the Lausanne Trilogue Play task (LTP) on all occasions. Three main coparenting representation categories emerged: traditional, ambiguous, and co‐responsible. On observation, approximately half of the couples showed cooperative coparenting interactions, while the other half had conflictual interactions. Couples generally followed stable trajectories over time. Cooperative couples demonstrated co‐responsibility and open dialogue, while conflictual couples tended to follow traditional gender roles with tacit communication styles. This study highlights the importance of promoting co‐responsibility and dialogue for fostering cooperative relational dynamics during the critical transition to parenthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the role of avatar tour guides in influencing travelers' environmental awareness and support for local communities within virtual regenerative tourism. Through three experimental studies, the findings reveal that avatars, strategically designed to vary in gender (female versus male), attire (naturalistic versus commercial), and communication styles (naturalistic versus commercial), play a pivotal role in cultivating rapport with tourists. This enhanced rapport not only amplifies engagement but also fosters a deeper environmental consciousness and support for local communities. The study integrates Communication Accommodation Theory and Theory of Engagement into tourism research, offering actionable insights for optimizing virtual regenerative tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Clinical practice is an organizational form for practical training of midwifery students. The main goal is to form, train and improve professional knowledge, skills and competences. The lecturer has a key role in providing a high quality clinical learning environment. The effectiveness of practical training largely depends on his pedagogical activity, personality, tact, communication style, leadership and control of the learning process. Students' self-control is the other significant factor influencing the final result of practical training. Self-control and self-assessment are directly related and dependent on students' awareness, activity, motivation for learning and independence. The scientific communication aims to study the importance of control and self-control in practical training of the midwifery students at Trakia University, Faculty of Medicine - Stara Zagora. It was conducted to realize the goals of scientific research project No. 12/2023. of Trakia University "Research on the role of control and self-control in the practical training of students from the specialty "Midwifery". For the purposes of the study, an anonymous, individual online survey was created using the Google Docs application. The opinion of a total of 54 students has been studied. The results showed that insufficient teacher supervision is one of the leading factors reducing the effectiveness of clinical practice. It is necessary to create the conditions to attract motivated teachers. An update of the didactic tool for control and self-control "Clinical practice diary" is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the communication strategies employed by Thai LGBTQ+ primary school teachers to negotiate their identities. The Communication Theory of Identity was used to examine the interplay between sexual-professional identity gaps and societal expectations at school. The study involved semi-structured, in-depth interviews with ten participants. The teachers’ internal recognition process leads to compromising overlapping identities and the delineation of spaces within the school. This process has been achieved by varying communication styles, some of which are influenced by Thai cultural norms – avoiding confrontation and mis-expectation compensating – that enable the teachers to keep their teacherly positionality intact. Considering overlapping identities, one has to employ a culturally and professionally sensitive communicative strategy, which enables teachers to advance professionally, ascend the social ladder, and secure greater career prospects. These strategies contribute to the establishment of mutually beneficial relationships in the workplace by reducing the power disparity between LGBTQ+ teachers and dominant hetero-others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the role of parodic humour in Boris Johnson's populist communication. Populist parties and conservative politicians have increasingly drawn humorous connections to films and entertainment in their political communication. But, despite the increasing research on populism, the role of humour in political communication is not yet at the centre of populism research. The article shows how professionally designed humour can dominate discourses and bring immense amounts of media attention to specific details while distracting attention from other political issues. The argument of the article is illustrated by analysing humorous communication of the former British PM Boris Johnson in 2019 and 2020. Among others, Johnson compared himself to Marvel's Hulk, a parody that echoed through the news media. The article provides a very specific and new insight into the means by which populist strategies make use of parodic humorous elements in their communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Egao (spoofing), a popular form of Chinese parody, employs humorous and mocking techniques in verbal and visual forms. Its grassroots nature often endows egao with an anti-authoritarian stance, but little scholarly attention has been paid to the increasing use of egao by Chinese public officials on social media. This article looks at this new trend by examining how local officials on the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, use egao. Drawing on Bakhtin’s concept of carnivalesque, we employ Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the online communication style of 54 official accounts on Douyin. We thereby highlight three key features of the dynamic and complex nature of power relations in contemporary political communication in China: how they represent ethnic minority cultures; how they use typical egao forms to parody rebellious characters and subvert traditional Confucian junzi images; and their use of ‘light’ egao to reconstruct ancient characters and heroic images through Gufeng and Wuxia genres. We argue that the power relations between officials and the grassroots are not subverted but rather disguised through a complex negotiation within the state’s promotion of cultural soft power, tourism, and economy, which is aligned with Xi Jinping’s political doctrine of ‘Telling the China Story Well’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research discusses the variations of Cirebon dialect in Indonesian conversations among students at the Faculty of Education and Science, Swadaya Gunung Jati University, Cirebon. The research background is based on initial findings in student conversations, which show the diversity of dialects when communicating in Indonesian. UGJ students come from various regions, influencing their communication styles, thus resulting in diverse variations of Indonesian used as a means of communication among students, including dialectal variants. This study examines dialectal variations based on phonological and lexical aspects. The method used is qualitative descriptive with conversation monitoring techniques among students. The research findings indicate the presence of Cirebon dialect variations in Indonesian conversations among FPS UGJ Cirebon students. Dialectal variations include: Indramayu dialect, Javanese-Sundanese dialect, Arjawinangun dialect, Plered dialect, and Gegesik dialect. Phonological and lexical analysis highlight differences in word pronunciation, intonation, as well as the use of particles, pronouns, nouns, and adjectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study attempts to investigate the disagreement strategies that are used by American speakers of Arabic with a view to identifying which disagreement strategies they use in equal and non-equal status situations. In addition, it aims to see whether variables like gender and social status affect the linguistic choices and disagreement strategies that they use. The subjects of the study are 28 (14 male and 14 female) American speakers of Arabic who were learning Arabic and were residing in Jordan at the time of data collection. The researchers analyze their interactional recorded responses to a set of stimuli included in an oral (recorded) discourse completion task (ODCT) prepared for this purpose. The ODCT comprises six scenarios in which the respondent is requested to disagree with two peers, two higher-status interlocutors, and two lower-status interlocutors. The findings of the study show that the American speakers of Arabic use two main disagreement strategies, non-confrontational and confrontational disagreements, which are in turn divided into sub-strategies. Further, they employ the non-confrontational strategies slightly more than the confrontational ones, as the percentage for the former is 51% while for the latter is 49%. Interestingly, the study suggests that the topic of discussion significantly influences the choice of strategy, sometimes resulting in women being more confrontational than men, which contrasts with common perceptions reported in the literature about gender-based communication styles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leading to Australia's 2019 Federal election, then-Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, drew attention for posting images of him making family dinners on Facebook. These 'curry night' posts became the subject of media banter as he publicly cultivated his 'daggy-dad' persona. Assuming this behaviour was strategic, questions arise as to why. This paper considers theories of irrational appeals in political communication to interpret this behaviour. In doing so, it clarifies and operationalises 'politics of the gut', a nexus between populist politics and mediated authenticity. This paper tracks authenticity and populist appeals from Australian politicians on Facebook and gauges their efficacy by contrasting randomised and high-engagement samples. Results show these appeals were widespread but differed in configuration between candidates. Furthermore, during the sampled period, authenticity demonstrated increased engagement from users while populist appeals received decreased engagement, offering new perspectives on the efficacy of these communication styles on Facebook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With users increasingly spending time on social media platforms, firms are expanding their activities to cover more than one platform. Each has a unique vernacular—its popular communication style—which increases the need for firms to use platform-specific content optimization. This study distinguishes between textual and visual content intentions, depending on the degree of informative and affective appeals used. We examine how congruency between visual content and platform type and textual content affects users' sharing. We distinguish between hedonic platforms, such as Facebook, primarily used for entertainment and social interaction, and utilitarian platforms, such as Twitter, primarily used for receiving timely information. We develop a new approach to examine how textual and visual content composition affects users' sharing behavior across platforms. Based on this new approach, we analyze posts by S&P 500 members operating on Facebook and Twitter. Our results show that posts with visual content congruent with the primary user intent of the platforms are more likely to be shared. Furthermore, Facebook users prefer affective textual and visual content, while Twitter users are more inclined toward a combination of informative visual and affective textual content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractObjective: The pediatric patient populations in the United States are becoming increasingly diverse in culture. In addition to medical factors, a variety of sociocultural factors (including educational systems, language, immigration status, etc.) can impact a child’s cognitive development, performance on traditional neuropsychological measures, provider interactions, differential diagnosis, and recommendations. A culturally-informed neuropsychological evaluation aims to understand the impact of sociocultural factors and integrate them into the assessment approach. Fujii’s ECLECTIC framework (acronym for Education & Literacy, Culture/Acculturation, Language, Economic Issues, Communication Style, Testing Situation, Intelligence Conceptualization, and Context of Immigration) can be used to guide culturally-informed neuropsychological evaluations of children with complex medical conditions. Method: Using the ECLECTIC framework, this paper describes clinical considerations and offers practical solutions for providing culturally-informed pediatric neuropsychology evaluations. Four diverse patients with spina bifida are reviewed. Results: The case presentations highlight the application of the ECLECTIC framework within a medically complex pediatric patient population. Conclusions: Spina bifida is one example of a pediatric medical population in which both medical and sociocultural factors can impact cognitive development and the evaluation process. The ECLECTIC framework defines a variety of sociocultural factors that can influence cognitive development and multiple aspects of a pediatric neuropsychological evaluation. Pediatric neuropsychologists should use the ECLECTIC framework to provide culturally-informed evaluations for our increasingly diverse patient populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crises constitute ideal opportunities for authoritarian leaders to promote certain narratives, shaping reality in their favor and crafting their own preferred storylines about current events. In other words: they serve authoritarian leaders on a silver platter the opportunity to instrumentalize these unforeseen circumstances to gain domestic political legitimacy by promoting strategic narratives. The COVID-19 pandemic was no exception in this regard. Ever since its onset in early 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was among the most active actors worldwide seeking to capitalize on the global crisis for legitimation purposes. Whether applying narratives of governance supremacy, portraying the People's Republic of China as a "global savior," or promoting emotionally appealing nationalistic narratives, the regime used the pandemic as a window of opportunity to rebrand its international role and enhance its domestic legitimacy. When observing the CCP's communication style over the course of 24 pandemic months (2020–2022), however, major shifts become apparent regarding the main narratives crafted in communication with national audiences. Based on this, the paper focuses on the role of such narratives for legitimation claims. Using exemplary media articles collected between the outbreak of the pandemic in China in late 2019 until the harsh Shanghai lockdown in spring 2022, it thus traces the narratives employed by Chinese state elites and explores how they are intertwined with nationalism and broader power claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by ChatGPT, have significantly reshaped text generation, particularly in the realm of writing assistance. While ethical considerations underscore the importance of transparently acknowledging LLM use, especially in scientific communication, genuine acknowledgment remains infrequent. A potential avenue to encourage accurate acknowledging of LLM-assisted writing involves employing automated detectors. Our evaluation of four cutting-edge LLM-generated text detectors reveals their suboptimal performance compared to a simple ad-hoc detector designed to identify abrupt writing style changes around the time of LLM proliferation. We contend that the development of specialized detectors exclusively dedicated to LLM-assisted writing detection is necessary. Such detectors could play a crucial role in fostering more authentic recognition of LLM involvement in scientific communication, addressing the current challenges in acknowledgment practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The current paper conducted two parallel studies to explore user experiences of well-being conversational agents (CAs) and identify important features for engagement. Background: Students transitioning into university life take on greater responsibility, yet tend to sacrifice healthy behaviors to strive for academic and financial gain. Additionally, students faced an unprecedented pandemic, leading to remote courses and reduced access to healthcare services. One tool designed to improve healthcare accessibility is well-being CAs. CAs have addressed mental health support in the general population but have yet to address physical well-being support and accessibility to those in disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds where healthcare access is further limited. Method: Study One comprised a thematic analysis of mental health applications featuring CAs from the public forum, Reddit. Study Two explored emerging usability themes of an SMS-based CA designed to improve accessibility to well-being services alongside a commercially available CA, Woebot. Results: Study One identified several themes, including accessibility and availability, communication style, and anthropomorphism as important features. Study Two identified themes such as user response modality, perceived CA role, question specificity, and conversation flow control as critical for user engagement. Conclusion: Various themes emerged from individuals’ experiences regarding CA features, functionality, and responses. The mixed experiences relevant to the communication and conversational styles between the CA and the user suggest varied motivations for using CAs for mental and physical well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the dynamics of engagement between climate scientists and the public on Twitter, focusing on two primary research questions: first, how do the themes, attributes, and communication styles of climate scientists' posts influence online climate change dialogues on social media? Second, what role do the public's attitudes, opinions, and engagement features play in shaping these online dialogues? Employing a mixed-methods approach, including both quantitative and qualitative content analyses, we explored the content of tweets from four climate scientists and the public's replies to these posts. We found that the narrative styles of scientists and the thematic content of their posts significantly influence public engagement, with visual elements playing a key role in amplifying their positive effects. The public's responses, characterized by a diverse range of attitudes and opinions, highlight the complexity of engaging a broad audience in climate change discussions. Ultimately, the study concludes that effective science communication on social media requires a nuanced understanding of audience perceptions, strategic utilization of visual elements, and a focus on fostering dialogic and participatory conversations, as advocated by the public engagement with science (PES) model. This approach not only enhances public engagement with scientific content but also promotes broader civic awareness and participation in scientific dialogues about climate change, especially on social media platforms like Twitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Orwell's (1945/2013) Animal Farm is a rich source of manipulative discourses, especially as embodied in the character Squealer, who masterfully exploits the peripheral entities. Despite its critical and widespread acclaim, the systematic exploration of specific pragma-stylistic strategies that Orwell uses to depict manipulation and propaganda are understudied in the literature. Utilizing an eclectic theoretical framework incorporating Johnson's (2000) manifest rationality theory and the deceptive principle posited by Merzah and Abbas (2020), this study performs a qualitative intra-analysis to unearth the distinct employment of a myriad of fallacies, such as scapegoating, ad nauseam, false dilemma, domino fallacy, historical negationism, and ad ignorantiam. This research aims to explore manipulative rhetoric from the viewpoint of pragma-stylistics. The significance of this research lies in its potential to deepen our understanding of rhetorical strategies in allegorical literature, offering insights into how language can be used to manipulate and influence. This study addresses the central question: How do specific pragma-stylistic strategies enable characters in Animal Farm to manipulate and propagate fallacies, and what implications does this have for understanding similar manipulative techniques in political discourse? The findings suggest a contrast between Squealer's and Napoleon's manipulative strategies: Napoleon, akin to the uncharismatic communication style of Stalin, leverages scapegoating to undermine his adversaries, while Squealer, Napoleon's rhetorical extension, focuses on distorting historical events, exaggerating consequences, and perpetuating falsehoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collaboration across cultures in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields has become increasingly common. This means many STEM professionals in US-based companies now work with professionals from other cultures. In this global context, cross-cultural knowledge is crucial for effective communication. Without this knowledge, there can be misunderstandings and discomfort. Different cultures use different communication styles, which has been studied by the field of communication. The concept of high and context low-context culture is used to discuss the role of contextual cues in communication. High-context cultures rely on implicit language and contextual and situational cues, while low-context cultures use explicit language. Although no culture is strictly high or low context, this concept is important as it helps us understand how our communication style can be influenced by cultural characteristics. There is a growing need to support and encourage students to become interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields. Many STEM programs in the United States have emphasized the importance of collaboration to meet this need. However, effective collaboration requires effective communication, and students often lack opportunities to explore how they can communicate effectively with collaborators from other cultures and countries. To bridge this gap, this article proposes incorporating communication into STEM courses for undergraduate students. The course will include learning opportunities about low and high-context cultures and guest speakers. This article aims to provide insights into how communication content can prepare undergraduate students to become culturally competent STEM professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines consumers' reactions to the communication styles of chatbots during failed service experiences. The current study explores whether the communication style adopted by a chatbot impacts consumer satisfaction and behavior intention and how expectancy violations can moderate these relationships in the service context. A pre-test examined the validity of the stimuli of chatbots that were either task-oriented or social-oriented after consumers encountered service failure. For more information, the experiment was designed to manipulate the AI-based chatbot agent's process and style of communication and measure the role of expectancy violations. The main experiment results showed that interactions with social-oriented communication style chatbots enhance the level of consumers' interaction satisfaction and intention of behavior. Respondents experienced a higher perception of warmth when interacting with social-oriented communication style chatbots than task-oriented. Moreover, expectancy violation moderates the mediation of warmth on the relationship between the chatbot's communication style/type and interaction satisfaction, trust, and intention of patronage. Setting chatbots' communication styles to be social-oriented can help reduce negative emotions among consumers caused by service failure; specifically, the perception of warmth created by the social-oriented communication style can alleviate negative evaluations of service agents and companies, such as dissatisfaction and loss of interest. Therefore, in managerial practice, the firm should choose the social-oriented communication style chatbot agent to recover the customer relationship after a service failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the influence of communication style similarity between streamers and viewers on purchase intention within the framework of similarity attraction theory and cognitive-emotional system theory. Live marketing, utilizing online streamers for real-time interaction with consumers, has become a prominent sales strategy. A quantitative approach was employed, using questionnaire data collected from live marketing audiences. The survey measured communication style preferences of both viewers and streamers, along with viewers' perceived level of quasi-social interaction during the live stream, immersive experience, and purchase intention. The research demonstrates that when a streamer's communication style aligns with a viewer's preference, viewers perceive a stronger sense of quasi-social interaction. This heightened sense of connection fosters a more immersive live streaming experience, ultimately leading to a greater purchase intention. Furthermore, the study reveals that viewers with a higher need for cognitive closure-the desire to minimize ambiguity-experience an amplified effect of both communication style similarity and immersive experience on their purchase intention. This research contributes to the evolving body of knowledge on live marketing communication. By highl ighting the importance of communication style matching between streamers and viewers, the findings offer valuable guidance to live streaming platforms and companies. Tailoring streamer communication styles to align with target audience preferences can enhance audience engagement, create a more immersive experience, and ultimately drive higher conversion rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Parents try to prevent possible negative outcomes associated with gaming by setting rules on their adolescent's gaming behavior (i.e., restrictive mediation). Parents can use either more autonomy‐supportive or more controlling styles to communicate those rules. Using a person‐centered approach, this study aims to, first, identify profiles of parents' perceived degree of restrictive mediation in gaming and styles of communicating these rules (i.e., autonomy‐supportive and controlling); second, to examine how adolescents in different profiles differ in terms of maladaptive gaming outcomes (i.e., problematic gaming, simulated, and online gambling); third, to investigate the moderating role of gaming frequency and adolescents' personality (i.e., behavioral inhibition system [BIS] sensitivity and behavioral activation system [BAS] sensitivity) in the associations between the parental profiles and the outcomes. Methods: The study used quantitative, cross‐sectional survey data from Belgian adolescents (N = 1651, mean age = 14.00 years, 51.2% boys), collected between November 2021 and February 2022 in schools. Results: Cluster analysis yielded four profiles of perceived restrictive mediation: an exclusively controlling one, an autonomy‐supportive one, one where parents used a perceived mix of both communication styles, and one where there was an overall perceived lack of restrictive mediation. Adolescents in the controlling profile displayed the most maladaptive outcomes. Some of the associations between the parental profiles and the outcomes were stronger for more frequent gamers and for adolescents scoring higher on both BIS and BAS sensitivity. Conclusion: Associations between the parental profiles and gaming outcomes were theoretically meaningful, yet small in terms of effect size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Humans adapt their communication style when interacting with one another. With interactive technologies such as voice assistants taking over the role of an interaction partner, the question arises whether and to what extent humans also adapt to their communication style. The adaptation could have a grounding function, ensuring efficient communication with the current interaction partner, or be based on priming which could endure and influence subsequent interactions. In a pre-registered experimental lab study, 133 participants interacted with a voice assistant whose communication style varied regarding politeness (polite vs. non-polite) and machine-likeness (machine-like vs. natural). Participants’ verbal behavior during and in a subsequent communication situation was analyzed. Politeness as well as machine-likeness adaptation was observed during the interaction but not afterwards, supporting the grounding hypothesis. Furthermore, the adaptation process appears to be unconscious as the voice assistant’s different communication styles did not affect conscious evaluations.

Communication and teamwork are intertwined, with communication deemed crucial for successful group task execution. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of communication and teamwork skills in youth. This single-group pre-and-post-intervention study involved 243 students from four undergraduate colleges. An eightsession communication and teamwork training program was conducted, and efficacy was assessed using a validated semi-structured questionnaire. Chi-square analysis revealed that 55.55% of participants were female, and 44.44% were male. Female participants aged 18 to 20 showed a significant increase compared to males. Results indicated improvements in business communication knowledge, confidence, a comprehensive presentation approach, and a positive communication style. Teamwork and team expertise, as well as recognizing the importance of involving the team in tasks, also improved after the intervention. The study demonstrated significant enhancements in essential communication skills and teamwork among youth, emphasizing the positive impact of the intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this work is to determine the digital communication style of the Spanish Royal House in relation to the progressive public positioning of the Princess of Asturias as heir to the Spanish Crown. A multivariate quantitative analysis (content analysis) is carried out in SPSS (Krippendorff alpha coefficient = 0.867) on a corpus of 948 tweets published by the X @CasaReal account between 1 January and 31 December 2023. The study consolidates itself as a relevant relationship management tool for the public positioning of the Princess of Asturias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the tourism sector leaders need a clear, speedy, and practical style of communication to handle rapidly changing situations. This article investigates this perception in South Korea, a highly contextbased society. The author deploys the systems model of leadership communication to explore how tourism employees perceive leaders' communication styles and behaviors. Qualitative data were analyzed using concepts of cultural characteristics and a leadership communication model. The findings highlight that respondents draw on cultural beliefs and prefer leaders who exercise communicative elusiveness, despite the merits of clear communication in tourism. This discussion illuminates that leadership communication is affected by cultural variations. The embeddedness of cultural values in leadership behaviors is demonstrated, with traits shaping perceptions of effective communication in different cultural contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research was motivated by the large number of inmates at the Bina Laras Harapan Sentosa 2 Social Home, the majority of whom came from the streets. With the different educational backgrounds of the accompanying officers, the process of extracting data and information from the inmates is a challenge in itself. What is the communication strategy used by social assistants in the assessment process with inmates? If the communication strategy is carried out correctly, the process of extracting information from the inmates will run according to expectations and make the service and rehabilitation process run according to the SOP. The theory used in this research uses Communication Accommodation Theory and Social Learning Theory. This is based on the observation that officers and inmates appear to imitate each other's behavior and the behavior adopted is based on the environment and the behavior of other people around them. This study used qualitative research methods. This research concludes that the communication strategy carried out by the assistants was successful in accordance with expectations. This can be seen from the data and information obtained which is adequate and the assisted residents can receive services and rehabilitation according to the criteria, and quite a lot have been successfully reunified with their families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to explore the guardian mindset as a means for improving police-community relations. Using data collected from 735 new officers in the USA, confirmatory factor analyses were used to evaluate the empirical validity of the guardian vs. warrior typology, and structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships among the guardian mindset and outcomes believed to improve relations with the public. The results show that officers' attitudes about the community and communication styles, but not attitudes about the role of the police, differentiate a guardian from a warrior orientation. The results also show that a higher-order guardian factor was related to attitudes about the use of force, procedural justice, and de-escalation. The findings provide some support for the positive effects of a guardian mindset on improving police-community relations while at the same time raising important questions for further study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aims to explore the role of the linguistic style used in the brand-posted social media content on consumer engagement in the Fintech domain. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 3,286 tweets (registering nearly 1.35 million impressions) published by 10 leading Fintech unicorns in India were extracted using the Twitter API. The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) dictionary was used to analyse the linguistic characteristics of the shared tweets. Negative Binomial Regression (NBR) was used for testing the hypotheses. Findings: This study finds that using drive words and cognitive language increases consumer engagement with Fintech messages via the central route of information processing. Further, affective words and conversational language drive consumer engagement through the peripheral route of information processing. Research limitations/implications: The study extends the literature on brand engagement by unveiling the effect of linguistic features used to design social media messages. Practical implications: The study provides guidance to social media marketers of Fintech brands regarding what content strategies best enhance consumer engagement. The linguistic style to improve online consumer engagement (OCE) is detailed. Originality/value: The study's findings contribute to the growing stream of Fintech literature by exploring the role of linguistic style on consumer engagement in social media communication. The study's findings indicate the relevance of the dual processing mechanism of elaboration likelihood model (ELM) as an explanatory theory for evaluating consumer engagement with messages posted by Fintech brands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social networks such as Twitter can promote social alarm about conflicts concerning anti-hate speech legislation. The protests after the prison sentences of the rappers Valtònyc (2018) and Hasél (2021) are two paradigmatic cases in Spain. This research analyses how citizens' desire to combat hate speech may be frustrated when the law is applied. Using a quantitative and qualitative methodology, we observe the users and the media reactions on Twitter in both cases. In the first phase, we conducted a content analysis (n = 694) to identify the position of users and the media. In a second phase, discourse analysis examined the presence or absence of the features of constructive journalism in the news coverage. The results show that the anti-law stance is predominant in Twitter messages, but there are few references to freedom of expression and censorship. While there is a considerable presence of an angry style of communication and polarised messages in users' tweets, the media adopt a rational and informative approach. The media discourse in both cases is still far from the traits of constructive journalism. Therefore, this research shows that informative actions based on the principles of constructive journalism could mediate between citizen sensibility and legislation. This could promote a sense of citizenship that avoids hate speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This article presents the findings of an experimental study aimed at investigating the impact of coercive and assertive communication on children’s emotional responses and behavioral tendencies within parent–child interactions. Methods: The study tested four hypotheses related to children’s feelings, personalization bias, the need to express their point of view, and the desire to retreat to their room alone. Short audio stimuli recorded by a female assistant, representing a mother addressing her child, were utilized to create five different communication situations. The experimental procedure involved participants listening to the audio stimuli and answering related questions. The study included 123 participants between the ages of 9 and 13, with an equal gender distribution. Results: The results of One-Way ANOVA tests indicated significant differences among the four types of communication in terms of unpleasant feelings, personalization bias, listening to a personal point of view, and retreating into a personal room. The findings suggest that coercive communication elicited more negative emotional responses and stronger tendencies toward personalization bias, expressing personal opinions, and seeking solitude compared to assertive communication. Discussion: The implications of these findings highlight the importance of promoting positive and respectful communication strategies in parent–child relationships to foster children’s emotional well-being and healthy behavioral development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing complexity of the space flight program and the increase in the duration of missions require an improvement in psychological monitoring tools for astronauts in orbit. This article summarizes the experience of using quantitative content analysis of communication between the crews and the Mission Control Center (MCC). This method allows us to assess the dynamics of an astronaut's psycho-emotional state, identify their communicative style, and detect the communication phenomena of board-MCC communication. The method is based on a combination of the coping strategies approach by Lazarus and Folkman as well as B.F. Lomov's concept about the three functions of communication. We found the influence of workload on the structure and volume of communication, defined the main stable communication styles of crewmembers, and confirmed the presence of the emotional transfer phenomenon. We detected that astronauts successfully solve problems that arise in orbit using the capabilities of their communication style. An ineffective MCC communication style usually leads to psycho-emotional ill-being, manifesting in the emotional transfer phenomenon. The presence of the "third-quarter" phenomenon was not confirmed by materials from six-month space flights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the prevalence of online reviews, little research has examined the possible linkage between reviewers' communication styles and Hotel Star Class (HSC). Indeed, it is unclear whether review length and communication style change based on the type of hotel being reviewed (proxied by HSC classification). Applying two multivariate analyses of variance to a sample of TripAdvisor® reviews regarding nineteen hotels, this study revealed that less favourable reviews are significantly lengthier than favourable ones, but only for higher-ranked hotels. Furthermore, favourable (vs. less favourable) reviews predominantly reflect affective (vs. cognitive) processes, especially for higher-ranked hotels. The findings underline the importance of considering HSC classification when studying customer contentment in the hospitality industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractWith the increasing integration of chatbots in various customer service contexts, understanding factors that influence user interactions is of paramount importance. While chatbots bring several benefits, their efficacy largely depends on user satisfaction, loyalty, and perceived utility. This study explores the nuances of consumer interactions with chatbot services and identifies ways to enhance these interactions for successful goal achievement. Through a multiple qualitative method approach, involving reflections, interviews, and focus groups, conducted an exhaustive investigation of the consumer experiences with chatbot interactions. The study focused on elements such as anthropomorphism, communication styles, service scripts, consumer emotions, and privacy and trust concerns. Our findings highlight that the anthropomorphism and communication style of chatbots significantly affect user satisfaction. The perceived utility of chatbots was found to be a multifaceted construct that substantially influences consumer engagement. Furthermore, this study identified negative emotions and privacy concerns as key determinants of consumer-chatbot interactions. These findings necessitate meticulous attention in chatbot design and function. By using the affordance theory, this research offers insights into managing the complex dynamics of satisfaction and dissatisfaction factors within consumer-chatbot engagements, contributing crucially to the human-computer interaction literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the Individual Anti-Aggression Training (Individual-AAT) for adolescents and young adults who have been sentenced to participate due to criminal offenses. The training consists of 15 sessions and focuses on relationship work, communication, and respect. The implementation of Individual-AAT as a regular offering in offender assistance is considered meaningful. Relationship building and respect play an important role in this training. It is emphasized that respect and fair treatment of authority figures are important to promote acceptance and compliance with rules. It is also noted that a respectful relationship requires clear communication and empathy. It is emphasized that relationships function through mutual respect and communication. The text describes the importance of structured and sustainable conversation management in an Individual Anti-Aggression Training (AAT). It is emphasized that good preparation and content structuring of conversations are necessary to activate neural circuits and enable sustainable insights. The relationship between participant and trainer is characterized by benevolence, confrontation, empathy, and emphasis. Possible difficulties in communication are highlighted, such as different mother tongues, language comprehension, expression skills, and discussion culture. Reciprocal relationship building promotes openness and reduces feelings of shame. Trust in interaction means that speaking and acting are meaningful for the other person and vice versa. The text describes the importance of dialogical confrontation and respectful relationship building in educational work. It is emphasized that a friendly distance and a respectful communication style contribute to preserving the dignity of the person and recognizing the relationship partners as equal. It is pointed out that unbiased attention can open up new possibilities and that clear positioning is important to counteract unrealistic developments. Participants in an Individual Anti-Aggression Training report positive effects such as reduced aggression, better job prospects, and a more relaxed atmosphere at home. It is emphasized that the individuals conducting the training should have the appropriate additional qualifications. The text concludes with the finding that participation in an Individual-AAT can be appropriate and helpful for certain clientele. The text includes a list of literature references and information about the author Horst Schawohl, who works as an Anti-Aggression Trainer and Coordinator for the area of Anti-Aggression Training/Individual-AAT at the Hamburg youth support organization Nordlicht e.V. No further information or summaries of the content are provided. [Extracted from the article]

Social learning is a fundamental mechanism for efficiently transferring and coordinating norms, skills, and sophisticated cultural information to individuals. However, the psychological mechanisms underlying social learning remain unclear. To investigate this, we recruited adult participants (N= 103), who observed a model's performance in a two-choice reward-searching task. Two cues were used to determine the reward, with both cues possessing an alternative signal that had a specific rule for finding the reward. Although the model succeeded with one cue but failed with another, both possessed equal information, which enabled the participants to find the reward. Participants were more likely to use the cue linked to the model's success than the model's failure when asked to solve the task by themselves. This "copy success" bias reflects the psychological process underlying social learning suggested by previous evolutionary theories and provides practical suggestions for efficient learning processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nursing faces challenges such as high workload, low job satisfaction, and poor communication in high-stress environments with strict hierarchies. These factors contribute to increased errors and conflicts. Information technology solutions like clinical decision support systems and electronic health records can reduce workload, decrease errors, and improve patient care. However, effectively integrating these tools requires understanding communication dynamics within hospitals and between professions. Despite the known effects of poor communication on job satisfaction and care quality, there is a lack of research on nurse-physician communication from their respective perspectives. The paper aims to address this gap and focuses on research questions related to nurse-physician communication and appreciation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Self-praise is very common on social media, and various translanguaging strategies are often used by internet users in online communication. Most of the existing studies on self-praise have centered on strategies for self-praise, ignoring the multimodal communication styles involved. On the other hand, although translanguaging has attracted significant research attention in linguistics and multilingual education, few studies have explored translanguaging in a specific speech act. Therefore, this study investigates the translanguaging practices involved in self-praising in Chinese netizens' social media by analyzing 300 Chinese microblog posts containing self-praise. The results indicate that there are three major categories of translanguaging strategies in self-praise in microblogs, namely multimodal, multilingual and multi-semiotic resources, with various sub-strategies involved in each category. The study also discusses the possible factors motivating Chinese netizens to deploy translanguaging practices to self-praise on social media. This study contributes to the body of research on translanguaging pragmatics in social media communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study seeks to understand the impact of initial library responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States through December of 2020. Survey responses reflect the impact that decisions and communication styles had on workers within library organizations. This article discusses respondents' overall satisfaction with communication from their libraries, their sense of equity in application of work-related measures, and impacts to their wellbeing at work. Those respondents who were more satisfied with their organization's communication and equity reported lower levels of impact to several measures of their wellbeing at work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We examined the discussion processes through which two independent consensus-based review panels detected errors in the same sample of items from an international test translated from English to Chinese. The discussion processes were defined according to four events: (1) identifying a potential error; and (2) agreeing with, (3) disagreeing with, and (4) elaborating an opinion expressed by other panelists. We found that, while the two panels had similar error detection rates, only half of the errors detected by the two panels altogether were detected by both panels. In addition, of the errors detected by the two panels, more than half were detected by the panels through different discussion processes. No discussion process occurred substantially more frequently or less frequently for any translation error dimension. We conclude that the unique combination of backgrounds, skills, and communication styles of panel members and the unique combination of textual features in each item shape which errors each panel is capable of detecting. While panels can be highly effective in detecting errors, one single panel may not be sufficient to detect all possible errors in a given set of translated items. Consensus-based translation error review panels should not be assumed to be exchangeable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conversational Agents (CAs) are characterized by their roles within a narrative and the communication style they adopt during conversations. Within computer games, users' evaluation of the narrative is influenced by their estimation of CAs' intelligence and believability. However, the impact of CAs' roles and communication styles on users' experience remains unclear. This research investigates such influence of CAs' roles and communication styles through a crime-solving textual game. Four different CAs were developed and each of them was assigned to a role of either witness or suspect and to a communication style than can be either aggressive or cooperative. Communication styles were simulated through a Wizard of Oz method. Users' task was to interact, through real-time written exchanges, with the four CAs and then to identify the culprit, assess the certainty of their judgments, and rank the CAs based on their conversational preferences. In addition, users' experience was evaluated using perceptual measures (perceived intelligence and believability scales) and behavioral measures (including analysis of users' input length, input delay, and conversation length). The results revealed that users' evaluation of CAs' intelligence and believability was primarily influenced by CAs' roles. On the other hand, users' conversational behaviors were mainly influenced by CAs' communication styles. CAs' communication styles also significantly determined users' choice of the culprit and conversational preferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Turkey, populism has a homogeneous structure that includes opposing ideologies stuck between right-wing and left-wing views. In the political structure in Turkey, 'us' and 'the other' are created through populism and an exclusionary attitude towards political rivals is adopted. The present study analyzes the populist issues and populism communication processes of 4 candidates on Twitter ahead of the presidential elections in Turkey. The posts (n = 727) made by the candidates on their Twitter accounts between March 10 and 10 April 2023 were analysed using the content analysis method. As a result of the study, the approaches of the political candidates towards economic, political, cultural and social issues on Twitter were analysed within the framework of populism. The topics addressed by the candidates on Twitter during the election process varied according to the candidates' positions in power and opposition. On the other hand, it was found that the political candidates defined their populist communication style on Twitter based on the themes of 'champion of the people', 'the man on the street' and 'sincerity'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contouring of inclusive stylistics as a new key concept of this discipline is inspired by panchronic continuity (especially) with rhetorical and stylistic considerations, as well as with considerations originating in the wider context of social sciences in the intersection of scientistic and antiscientist methodological frameworks. The inclusive style is a pillar of stylistics that aims to meet the communication needs of civil society of the 21st century. I integrate considerations on the way to inclusive stylistics (as a subset of interactional stylistics) in the spirit of the cognitive pluralism of the time (Gajda 2022, p. 8) as my contribution to the plurality of stylistic considerations in the name of unity in the diversity of the discipline. The attached text is an entry "shoot" to the team project of inclusive stylistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]