Dark Side of Family Communication (eBook)

Loreen N. Olson is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia Jessica M. W. Kratzer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech and Theatre at Middle Tennessee State University Sarah E. Symonds is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia

List of Tables and Figures
Prologue
Chapter 1: Conceptualizing the "Dark Side" of Family Communication
Chapter 2: Individual Influence on the Darkness of Family Communication
Chapter 3: The Dark Side of Dyadic Family Life
Chapter 4: Familial Interaction Structure and the Dark Side
Chapter 5: Dark Family Communication in a Context of Darkness's Sociocultural Influences on Family Life
Chapter 6: Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
Index

"In this volume Loreen N. Olson, Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner,
Jessica M. W. Kratzer, and Sarah E. Symonds shed much needed light
on the dark side of family communication. By unearthing the layers
of familial relating to reveal numerous caverns of darkness, they
generate new landscapes for students and scholars of the dark side
and family communication."

Erin Willer, University of Denver

"Much has been written on the 'dark side' of
communication. This is the first book actually to define what dark
communication is, explain how it forms, identify what effect it
has, recommend how to 'brighten it,' and tie all this
together in a Darkness Model of Family Communication."

Dudley Cahn, SUNY at New Paltz