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Present	Associate Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of English
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Articles (15)

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An Analysis of the Academic Environment in Business and Professional ...

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly (2020)

Paula Lentz Paula Lentz, Tina Coffelt, Peter Cardon, Linda Cresap, et al.

While previous research in business communication has surveyed business and professional communication instructors regarding their courses, it has not yet ...

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Exemplary and Unacceptable Workplace Communication Skills

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly (2020)

Tina Coffelt and Frances L. M. Smith

Thematic analysis of interviews with 22 managers highlight their perspectives on exemplary and unacceptable workplace communication skills. Exemplary skills were ...

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Revealing and Receiving Sexual Health Information

Health Communication (2019)

Tina A. Coffelt, Raeann Ritland and Leah LeFebvre

This investigation applies communication privacy management theory (Petronio, 2002) to examine sexual health disclosures from the perspectives of disclosers and ...

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Employers’ Perspectives on Workplace Communication Skills: The Meaning of Communication ...

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly (2019)

Tina A. Coffelt, Dale Grauman and Frances L.M. Smith

Employers provide their interpretation of the meaning of communication skills in this qualitative study of 22 managers. Employers understand written ...

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A Paragon of Family Ritual: The Zimmerman Family Reunion

Communication Studies (2018)

Tina A. Coffelt

A case study of a family reunion ritual is showcased in this analysis. Fifty-nine members of one multigenerational family were ...

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Sexual Goals, Plans, and Actions: Toward a Sexual Script Emerging ...

Western Journal of Communication (2017)

Tina A. Coffelt

This mixed-methods study of emerging adults investigates the messages asserted to delay or abstain from sexual intercourse. Goals-plans-action theory and ...

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Revealing Sexual Information in Mother‐Daughter Relationships

Sex Education (2017)

Tina Coffelt

Communication privacy management theory informed this study of nine mothers and their 18 or 19‐ year‐old daughters who were interviewed ...

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Business Communication Practices From Employers’ Perspectives

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly (2016)

Tina Coffelt, Matthew J Baker and Robert C Corey

This study investigates the meaning of communication skills from employers’ perspectives. Students enrolled in a business communication course were asked ...

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Sexual Goals-Plans-Actions: Toward a Sexual Script in Marriage

Communication Quarterly (2015)

Tina Coffelt and Jon A Hess

This study introduces a sexual script in heterosexual marriage, based on interviews with 12 married women and 13 married men. ...

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Contribution to Book

No more birds and bees: A process approach to parent-child ...

Communication Yearbook 38 (2014)

Tina A. Coffelt and Loreen N. Olson

In this chapter, we present conjoined models of parent-child sexual communication. These models rely on communication privacy management theory to ...

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Perceptions of Teachers' Disclosures on Facebook and their Impact on ...

Kentucky Journal of Communication (2014)

Tina Coffelt, Justin Strayhorn and Lou Davidson Tillson

This study examines the perceptions of 83 college students about their university professors who are Facebook friends. The relevance and ...

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Sexual Disclosures: Connections to Relational Satisfaction and Closeness

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy (2013)

Tina Coffelt and Jon A Hess

This study examines sexual communication by describing the content of sexual disclosures within marital relationships and assessing the association between ...

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The Voice of Victims: Positive Response to a Natural Disaster ...

Qualitative Research reports in Communication (2012)

Frances L M. Smith, Tina Coffelt, April P Rives and Michael Solitto

In the current study the authors investigate victims' response to a natural disaster crisis event. Crisis communication research has often ...

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Verbal Communication about Sex in Marriage: Patterns of Language Use ...

The Journal of Sex Research (2012)

Tina A. Coffelt and Jon A. Hess

This study examined the vocabulary husbands and wives use for talking to each other about sex, and connections between language ...

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Using sensemaking to understand victims’ response to a natural disaster

The Northwest Journal of Communication (2010)

Tina A. Coffelt, Frances Smith, Michael Sollitto and April R. Payne

An ice storm in early 2009 created a crisis for residents in Western Kentucky. Residents were without electricity, water, and ...

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Other

Communicating emotion at work, by V. R. Waldron

Journal of Business and Management Landscapes (2012)

Tina Coffelt

Manage by numbers. This mantra and business philosophy is challenged by Waldron’s Communicating Emotion at Work. This text argues that ...

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Presentation

Professional Development and Education: Central Asia University Partnership Program (UniCEN ...

Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Conference Proceedings and Presentations (2021)

Jacek A. Koziel, Brian L. Steward, Tina A. Coffelt, Kodir Sabirov, et al.

Iowa State University has been awarded two grants focused on professional development and education. The grants are part of the ...

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Contribution to Book

Anonymous Source of Data

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods (2017)

Tina A. Coffelt

Academic writers have the ethical responsibility to protect their sources of data, to inform participants of how personal information will ...

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Confidentiality and anonymity of participants

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods (2017)

Tina Coffelt

Communication research is evolving and changing in a world of online journals, open-access, and new ways of obtaining data and ...

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Customer Service with a Smile: Creating a Climate Where Customers ...

Workplace Communication for the 21st Century: Tools and Strategies that Impact the Bottom Line (2013)

Tina A. Coffelt

Nestled in the small, manufacturing and university town of Maryville, MO, resides a great example of customer service—Fred Mares. Fred ...

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Contribution to Book

Romantic relationship initiation following relationship dissolution

Handbook of Relationship Initiation (2008)

Mark A. Fine, Tina A. Coffelt and Loreen N. Olson

The Handbook of Relationship Initiation is the first volume to focus specifically on the very beginning stage of relationships – their origin. ...

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