TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluations of Supportive and Unsupportive Responses during Spousal Deployment
AU - Rossetto, Kelly Renee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 National Communication Association.
PY - 2015/7/3
Y1 - 2015/7/3
N2 - This study investigates helpful/unhelpful support, and reasons why responses from others are evaluated as helpful/unhelpful in terms of how they affect the ability to cope with deployment. Interviews were conducted with 26 military partners during deployment. The results offer a typology of (un)helpful responses and attributions of these responses. Furthermore, the results indicate that similar responses can be evaluated as both helpful and unhelpful, creating a support paradox. Three prominent dimensions affecting the variability in response evaluations, based in validation, understanding, and control, are discussed: in-group versus out-group, identity-confirming versus identity-disconfirming, and burden-reducing versus burden-inducing. These dimensions deepen our understanding of how support is unique within the context of deployment, specifically in terms of the paradox it can create.
AB - This study investigates helpful/unhelpful support, and reasons why responses from others are evaluated as helpful/unhelpful in terms of how they affect the ability to cope with deployment. Interviews were conducted with 26 military partners during deployment. The results offer a typology of (un)helpful responses and attributions of these responses. Furthermore, the results indicate that similar responses can be evaluated as both helpful and unhelpful, creating a support paradox. Three prominent dimensions affecting the variability in response evaluations, based in validation, understanding, and control, are discussed: in-group versus out-group, identity-confirming versus identity-disconfirming, and burden-reducing versus burden-inducing. These dimensions deepen our understanding of how support is unique within the context of deployment, specifically in terms of the paradox it can create.
KW - Coping
KW - Military Deployment
KW - Social Support
KW - Support Paradox
KW - Supportive Communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84938414971&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03637751.2014.978344
DO - 10.1080/03637751.2014.978344
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938414971
SN - 0363-7751
VL - 82
SP - 291
EP - 314
JO - Communication Monographs
JF - Communication Monographs
IS - 3
ER -