Do Message Features Influence Responses to Depression Disclosure? A Message Design Logics Perspective

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 139-163

  Scott, Allison M ^a   Caughlin, John P ^b   Donovan Kicken, Erin ^c   Mikucki Enyart, Sylvia L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Disclosure; Message Design Logic; Multiple Goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873922977     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2012.694007     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Barney, L. J., Griffiths, K. M., Jorm, A. F., & Christensen, H. (2006). Stigma about depression and its impact on help-seeking intentions. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40, 51-54. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1614.2006.01741.x
2. Berger, C. R. (2005). Interpersonal communication: Theoretical perspectives, future prospects. Journal of Communication, 55, 415-447. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb02680.x
3. Brunig, J. L., & Kintz, B. L. (1997). Computational handbook of statistics, 4th ed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
4. Burleson, B. R. (1994). Comforting communication: Significance, approaches, and effects. In B. R. Burleson, T. L. Albrecht, & I. G. Sarason (Eds.), Communication of social support: Messages, interactions, relationships, and community (pp. 3-28). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
5. Burleson, B. R. (2003). Emotional support skills. In J. O. Greene & B. R. Burleson (Eds.), Handbook of communication and social interaction skills (pp. 551-594). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
6. Burleson, B. R., & Caplan, S. E. (1998). Cognitive complexity. In J. C. McCroskey, J. A. Daly, & M. M. Martin (Eds.), Communication and personality: Trait perspectives (pp. 230-286). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
7. Burleson, B. R., & Waltman, M. S. (1988). Cognitive complexity: Using the Role Category Questionnaire. In C. H. Tardy (Ed.), A handbook for the study of human communication: Methods and instruments for observing, measuring, and assessing communication processes (pp. 1-35). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
8. Canary, D. J., & Spitzberg, B. H. (1987). Appropriateness and effectiveness of perceptions of conflict strategies. Human Communication Research, 14, 93-118. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1987.tb00123.x
9. Caughlin, J. P. (2010). A multiple goals theory of personal relationships: Conceptual integration and program overview. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 824-848. doi:10.1177/0265407510373262
10. Caughlin, J. P., Brashers, D. E., Ramey, M. E., Kosenko, K. A., Donovan-Kicken, E., & Bute, J. J. (2008). The message design logics of responses to HIV disclosures. Human Communication Research, 34, 655-684.
11. Caughlin, J. P., Bute, J. J., Donovan-Kicken, E., Kosenko, K. A., Ramey, M. E., & Brashers, D. E. (2009). Do message features influence reactions to HIV disclosures? A multiple-goals perspective. Health Communication, 24, 270-283. doi:10.1080/10410230902806070
12. Charmaz, K. (1991). Good days, bad days: The self in chronic illness and time (Chapter 5: Disclosing illness, pp. 107-133). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
13. Clark, R. A., & Delia, J. G. (1979). Topoi and rhetorical competence. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 65, 187-206. doi:10.1080/00335637909383470
14. Cohen Silver, R., Wortman, C. B., & Crofton, C. (1990). The role of coping in support provision: The self-presentational dilemma of victims of life crises. In B. R. Sarason, I. G. Sarason, & G. R. Pierce (Eds.), Social support: An interactional view (pp. 397-426). New York, NY: Wiley.
15. Coyne, J. C. (1976). Toward an interactional description of depression. Psychiatry, 39, 28-40.
16. Crockett, W. H. (1965). Cognitive complexity and impression formation. In B. A. Maher (Ed.), Progress in experimental personality research (Vol. 2, pp. 37-90). New York, NY: Academic Press.
17. Crockett, W. H., Press, A. N., Delia, J. G., & Kenny, C. T. (1974). Structural analysis of the organization of written impressions. Unpublished manuscript, University of Kansas.
18. Dennis, C-L., & Chung-Lee, L. (2006). Postpartum depression help-seeking barriers and maternal treatment preferences: A qualitative systematic review. Birth, 33, 323-331. doi:10.1111/j.1523-536X.2006.00130.x
19. Dillard, J. P. (1990). A goal-driven model of interpersonal influence. In J. P. Dillard (Ed.), Seeking compliance: The production of interpersonal influence messages (pp. 41-56). Scottsdale, AZ: Gorsuch Scarisbrick.
20. Fleiss, J. L. (1981). Statistical methods for rates and proportions (), 2nd ed. New York, NY: Wiley.
21. Furr, S. R., Westefeld, J. S., McConnell, G. N., & Jenkins, J. M. (2001). Suicide and depression among college students: A decade later. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 32, 97-100. doi:10.1037//0735-7028.32.1.97
22. Garcia, J. A., & Crocker, J. (2008). Reasons for disclosing depression matter: The consequences of having egosystem and ecosystem goals. Social Science and Medicine, 67, 453-462. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.03.016
23. Goldsmith, D. J. (2004). Communicating social support. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
24. Goldsmith, D. J., & Fitch, K. A. (1997). The normative context of advice as social support. Human Communication Research, 23, 454-476. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1997.tb00406.x
25. Goldsmith, D. J., Lindholm, K. A., & Bute, J. J. (2006). Dilemmas of talking about lifestyle changes among couples coping with a cardiac event. Social Science and Medicine, 63, 2079-2090. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.05.005
26. Goldsmith, D. J., McDermott, V. M., & Alexander, S. C. (2000). Helpful, supportive, and sensitive: Measuring the evaluation of enacted social support in personal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 17, 379-392. doi:10.1177/0265407500173004
27. Greene, K., Derlega, V. J., Yep, G. A., & Petronio, S. (2003). Privacy and disclosure of HIV in interpersonal relationships: A sourcebook for researchers and practitioners. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
28. Jackson, S. (1992). Message effects research: Principles of design and analysis. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
29. Jackson, S., & Brashers, D. E. (1994). Random factors in ANOVA. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
30. Lambert, B. L., & Gillespie, J. L. (1994). Patient perceptions of pharmacy students' hypertension compliance-gaining messages: Effects of message design logic and content themes. Health Communication, 6, 311-325. doi:10.1207/s15327027hc0604_6
31. Michalak, E. E., Yatham, L. N., Kolesar, S., & Lam, R. W. (2006). Bipolar disorder and quality of life: A patient-centered perspective. Quality of Life Research, 15, 25-37. doi:10.1007/s11136-005-0376-7
32. Müller, A. D., Bode, S., Myer, L., Stahl, J., & von Steinbüchel, N. (2011). Predictors of adherence to antiretroviral treatment and therapeutic success among children in South Africa. AIDS Care, 23, 129-138. doi:10.1080/09540121003758523
33. O'Keefe, B. J. (1988). The logic of message design: Individual differences in reasoning about communication. Communication Monographs, 55, 80-103. doi:10.1080/03637758809376159
34. O'Keefe, B. J. (1990). The logic of regulative communication: Understanding the rationality of message designs. In J. P. Dillard (Ed.), Seeking compliance: The production of interpersonal influence messages (pp. 87-104). Scottsdale, AZ: Gorsuch Scarisbrick.
35. O'Keefe, B. J., Lambert, B. L., & Lambert, C. (1997). Conflict and communication in a research and development unit. In B. D. Sypher (Ed.), Case studies in organizational communication 2: Perspectives on contemporary work life (pp. 31-52). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
36. O'Keefe, B. J., & McCornack, S. A. (1987). Message design logic and message goal structures: Effects on perceptions of message quality in regulative communication situations. Human Communication Research, 14, 68-92. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1987.tb00122.x
37. O'Keefe, B. J., & Shepherd, G. J. (1987). The pursuit of multiple objectives in face-to-face persuasive interactions: Effects of construct differentiation on message organization. Communication Monographs, 54, 396-419. doi:10.1080/03637758709390241
38. O'Keefe, B. J., & Shepherd, G. J. (1989). The communication of identity during face-to-face persuasive interactions: Effects of perceiver's construct differentiation and target's message strategies. Communication Research, 16, 375-404. doi:10.1177/009365089016003004
39. O'Keefe, D. J. (2003). Message properties, mediating states, and manipulation checks: Claims, evidence, and data analysis in experimental persuasive message effects research. Communication Theory, 13, 251-274. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.2003.tb00292.x
40. Peterson, L. W., & Albrecht, T. L. (1996). Message design logic, social support, and mixed-status relationships. Western Journal of Communication, 60, 291-309. doi:10.1080/10570319609374551
41. Pratt, L. A., & Brody, D. J. (2008, September). Depression in the United States household population, 2005-2006 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Data Brief No. 7). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
42. Rodriguez, A. J., Holleran, S. E., & Mehl, M. R. (2010). Reading between the lines: The lay assessment of subclinical depression from written self-descriptions. Journal of Personality, 78, 575-598. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00627.x
43. Samter, W., Burleson, B. R., & Basden-Murphy, L. (1989). Behavioral complexity is in the eye of the beholder: Effects of cognitive complexity and message complexity on impressions of the source of comforting messages. Human Communication Research, 15, 612-629. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1989.tb00201.x
44. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (1999). Mental health: A report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. DHHS.
45. Wilson, S. R. (2002). Seeking and resisting compliance: Why people say what they do when trying to influence others. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
46. World Health Organization. (2001). The world health report 2001: Mental health: New understanding, new hope. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.