Health Communication,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 11
Published: Dec. 1, 2024
Research
has
shown
a
dramatic
increase
of
eating
disorders
(EDs)
among
young
people
during
disruptive
times.
Understanding
the
role
communication
in
impeding
or
enacting
resilience
not
only
helps
those
with
EDs
develop
better
strategies
for
coping
and
changing
their
lives
but
can
also
inform
effective
interventions
at
familial,
community,
system
levels.
Guided
by
theory
(CTR),
our
study
explores
how
college
students
enacted
through
recalled
interactions
parents,
friends,
community
members,
health
professionals
COVID-19
pandemic.
Semi-structured
in-depth
interviews
13
diagnosed
self-identified
revealed
that
intended
as
protective
measures
be
perceived
(dis)empowering,
triggering
(mal)adaptive
resilience.
The
contributes
to
CTR
expanding
perspectives
on
triggers
socially
constructed
risks
aligned
multiple
contexts
display
communicatively
constructing
is
complex,
dynamic,
power-laden,
imbued
dialectical
tensions
anticipatory-reactive
self
others.
Journal of Applied Communication Research,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 22
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Enactment
of
resilience
is
essential
to
workplace
well-being.
Drawing
on
the
communication
theory
(CTR),
this
study
examined
media
exposure
as
a
potential
source
anticipatory
for
new
employees
under
China's
tech
industry's
overwork
culture.
Analyses
survey
data
(n
=
300)
revealed
that
culture
enhanced
occupational
self-efficacy
and
communicative
enactment,
positively
influencing
outcomes
including
career
adaptability,
mental
health,
job
satisfaction.
In
addition,
social
support
identity
boosted
Chinese
workers'
enactment
processes.
This
extends
CTR
organizational
contexts,
contributes
continuous
validation
Communication
Resilience
Processes
Scale
(CRPS),
highlights
role
cultural
discourses
fosters
subsequent
enactment.
Findings
offer
practical
insights
into
strategies
employees'
well-being
development
in
global
context
work
exploitation
resistance.
Journal of Applied Communication Research,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 23
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Amid
China's
aging
population
and
the
increasing
responsibilities
of
only-child
caregivers,
caring
for
parents
has
become
a
pressing
social
concern.
This
study
applies
Communication
Theory
Resilience
(CTR)
dual
filial
piety
classification
to
analyze
interviews
with
22
only
children
in
China
cancer.
Reflexive
thematic
analysis
identified
five
themes
(FP)
as
anticipatory
resilience
across
illness
trajectory:
anticipating
caregiver
role,
providing
intrinsic
motivation
behavioral
guidance,
fostering
support
networks,
framing
meaning-making,
facilitating
future
planning.
Both
authoritarian
FP
reciprocal
manifested
distinctively
themes.
However,
sixth
theme
revealed
that
they
may
also
act
cultural
stressors.
advances
CTR
by
examining
(a)
how
functions
specific
ways,
(b)
its
non-linear
fluidity
temporality,
(c)
inherent
contradictions
from
perspective.
Practical
recommendations
are
provided
enhance
caregivers.
International Journal of Business Communication,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 3, 2025
Facing
severe
public
crises,
individuals
might
fall
into
a
valley
of
despair
as
they
navigate
overwhelming
positive
and
negative
emotions.
The
Communication
Theory
Resilience
(CTR)
highlights
the
significance
legitimizing
emotions
highlighting
in
fostering
resilience,
while
Stress
Coping
Framework
(SCFR)
cultivating
coping
actions.
However,
emotion
dynamics
remain
underexplored.
In
this
study,
we
propose
Emotion
Dynamics
Model
(EDMR)
employ
four-wave
panel
data
early
stages
COVID-19
pandemic
on
social
media
to
test
hypotheses.
results
show
U-shaped
relationship
between
online
donations,
contrasted
with
an
inverted
donations.
Further,
panic
sympathy
discourses
amplify
effect
productive
EDMR
advances
extant
understanding
resilience
processes
by
examining
nonlinear
effects
interaction
discourse.
Journal of Applied Communication Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 21
Published: Nov. 23, 2024
Given
intensified
calls
to
attend
mental
health
in
academia,
we
sought
understand
how
graduate
students
the
communication
discipline
anticipate,
respond
to,
and
resist
institutional
stressors
via
their
resilience
processes.
Drawing
on
interviews
with
50
students,
examined
students'
processes
enacted
adaptive-transformative
possibilities
for
resistance
across
micro,
meso,
macro
organizational
levels
higher
education.
Our
findings
show
participants'
processes,
response
co-occurring
of
academic
norms,
restraints,
experiences
marginalization,
aligned
specific
modes
(viz.,
individual
infrapolitics,
insubordination,
collective
insurrection).
Ultimately,
extend
theorizing
illuminate
its
intersections
offer
practical
interventions
build
both
among
International Journal of Business Communication,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
61(4), P. 760 - 782
Published: July 26, 2024
The
pandemic
was
a
prolonged
and
ongoing
work
disruption,
especially
for
professional
caregivers.
This
explanatory
sequential
mixed
method
study
revealed
that
caregivers’
communicative
resilience
(CR)
positively
associated
with
their
experience
of
flourishing
negatively
burnout
intentions
to
turnover—indicating
CR
is,
indeed,
predictive
the
wellbeing
professionals
coping
lengthy
disruption
at
work.
Analysis
(
N
=
264)
survey
responses
demonstrated
continuity
factor
predicted
outcomes
(i.e.,
flourishing,
burnout,
turnover
intentions).
However,
change
did
not.
Then,
highly
communicatively
resilient
caregivers
n
11)
were
interviewed
explore
lived
experiences
flourishing—experiences
characterized
by
positive
emotions
while
doing
meaningful
rewarding
Implications
communication
scholarship
in
organizations
conclude
paper.
Management Communication Quarterly,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Sept. 14, 2024
Our
study
explored
13
university
members’
sensemaking
and
resilience
around
remote
work
during
the
COVID-19
pandemic.
We
found
that
“affective
sensemaking”
ran
throughout
our
data
exposed
vulnerabilities
uncertainties
we
called
relational
precarities.
Affective
of
precarities
encapsulated
sensate
experiences
or
intensities
entangled
with
fragmented,
fluid,
non-linear
nature
processes
in
Communication
Theory
Resilience
(CTR)
their
adaptive-transformative
dynamics.
Evidence
how
participants
adapted,
transformed,
embodied
moments
fraught
precarity
emerged
through
three
themes
practices:
(dis)connecting
relationally
precarious
networks,
intertwining
contradictory
affect-place-self-presentation,
performing
feeling
(in)visible.
contribute
to
CTR
organizing
by
centering
fragility,
affect,
as
key
understanding
being-becoming
resilience.
Health Communication,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
39(12), P. 2940 - 2949
Published: Dec. 19, 2023
Through
a
combination
of
autoethnographic
reflections
and
oral
history
interviews
with
my
parents,
I
explore
the
ways
in
which
we
enacted
resilience
throughout
father's
unexpected
hospitalization,
rehabilitation,
his
subsequent
years
recovery,
both
individually
communally.
Using
communication
theory
(CTR)
as
framework,
identify
engaged
five
processes
outlined
by
theory:
crafting
normalcy,
emphasizing
action
while
backgrounding
negative
feelings,
affirming
identity
anchors,
relying
on
networks,
employing
alternative
logics.
then
propose
three
additional
enacting
that
emerged
from
family's
insights:
performative
resilience,
connecting
to
broader
experience,
perspective-taking.
To
conclude,
reflect
value
these
communicative
research
practices
paper,
well
practical
benefits
CTR
additions
theory.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
41(10), P. 2802 - 2823
Published: May 16, 2024
Despite
the
incredible
challenges
of
caring
for
a
family
member
with
Alzheimer’s
disease
or
related
dementia,
many
dementia
caregivers
exhibit
resilience.
Framed
by
communication
theory
resilience,
this
study
examines
how
resilience
processes
unfold
within
caregivers’
relationships
their
member,
and
experiences
Analysis
27
interviews
adult
children
spousal
revealed
acknowledging
as
an
actor
in
relationship
central
facilitating
mechanism
that
enabled
to
enact
other
communicative
relationship.
Resilience
were
enacted
through
shifting
blame
accommodating
relying
on
memories.
Caregivers
experienced
personal
growth,
enhanced
relational
closeness,
ambivalent
We
discuss
implications
caregiver
forward
mechanisms
extension
theorizing.
Communication Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
75(5), P. 537 - 558
Published: July 27, 2024
Nonprofit
organizations
faced
a
high
demand
for
their
services
during
the
COVID-19
pandemic,
yet
they
experienced
unique
constraints
due
to
distinct
financial
model
amidst
global
economic
crisis.
Given
extraordinary
circumstances
that
nonprofits
confronted
purpose
of
this
study
is
understand
nonprofit
workers'
experiences
navigating
COVID-19,
how
coped
with
COVID-related
constraints,
generated
agency
restrictions,
and
built
resilience.
Through
25
semi-structured
interviews
workers
employed
in
variety
sectors,
our
findings
indicate
despite
numerous
used
communicative
resilience
generate
new
rules
resources
within
organization
cope
volatile
pandemic
challenges.
While
enactment
provided
positive
structures
may
not
be
sustainable
long-term
organization.
In
addition,
we
offer
theoretical
implications
surrounding
as
mechanism
rewriting
organizational
practical
confront
future
crises.
