“God Doesn’t Make Mistakes”: Memorable Messages, Adjustment, and Grief following Family Death

Abstract Using the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging (CEMSA), this study examined how one’s own age-related communication and memorable message characteristics indirectly predict successful aging, via aging efficacy. Older adults with higher dispositional hope recalled memorable messages as (a) higher in positivity, (b) higher in efficacy, and (c) more likely to contain a theme of aging not being important or being a subjective state that can be overcome with the right mindset. Older adults were classified as engaged, bantering, or disengaged agers, based on their own age-related communication. Uniquely for CEMSA’s development and the blended role of hope theory within it, memorable message efficacy indirectly predicted greater successful aging, via heightened aging efficacy.

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“God, I Don’t Want that Woman to Be Right about Me”: Memorable Messages, Reflected Appraisals, and Women’s Desistance

Victims & Offenders ◽

10.1080/15564886.2019.1630696 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 671-691

Author(s):

Rebecca Stone

Keyword(s):

Memorable Messages ◽

Reflected Appraisals

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Vocational Anticipatory Socialization, Self-Determination Theory, and Meaningful Work: Parents’ and Children’s Recollection of Memorable Messages About Work

Management Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0893318918768711 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 431-461 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jennifer A. Scarduzio ◽

Kevin Real ◽

Amanda Slone ◽

Zachary Henning

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Meaningful Work ◽

Self Determination Theory ◽

Psychological Needs ◽

Basic Psychological Needs ◽

Self Determination ◽

Anticipatory Socialization ◽

Memorable Messages ◽

Important Link ◽

Parent Child Relationships

This study explored memorable messages that parents recall communicating and young adults recall receiving about meaningfulness and work, using the lens of self-determination theory (SDT). Analysis of 377 memorable messages revealed that such messages relate to the basic psychological needs underlying SDT competence, autonomy, and relatedness. Autonomy messages were the most commonly recalled by fathers’ whereas mothers’ messages aligned more with competence. Our research suggests implications for the important link between SDT and meaningful work in the context of parent–child relationships. Our theoretical implications extend the connections between the components of SDT and meaningful work and explore how parents’ and young adults’ match and mismatch.

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