Special issue of Journal of Family Communication

In 2014, Ascan Koerner and Paul Schrodt co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Family Communication exclusively on family communication patterns scholarship. Taken together, there are several useful resources.  This intro would be a good starting place:

Ascan F. Koerner and Paul Schrodt, “An Introduction to the Special Issue on Family Communication Patterns Theory,” Journal of Family Communication, Vol. 14(1), 2014, pp.1-15.

Family communication patterns in a religious or faith-based context

Colleen Warner Colaner, “Exploring the Communication of Evangelical Families: The Association Between Evangelical Gender Role Ideology and Family Communication Patterns,” Communication Studies, Vol.60(2), 2009, pp. 97-113.

Eric M. Fife, C. Leigh Nelson and Amber S. Messersmith, “The Influence of Family Communication Patterns on Religious Orientation Among College Students,” Journal of Family Communication, Vol. 14(1), 2014, pp. 72-84.

Paul Schrodt, “Religious Conversations and Relational Uncertainty in Romantic Relationships as Mediators of Family Communication Patterns and Young Adults’ Mental Well-being,” Western Journal of Communication, Vol. 85(3), 2012, pp. 339-359

Salient issues for college students

Dorrance Hall, Elizabeth, Samantha J. Shebib, and Kristina M. Scharp. “The Mediating Role of Helicopter Parenting in the Relationship between Family Communication Patterns and Resilience in First-Semester College Students.” Journal of Family Communication 21 (1), 2021, pp. 34–45.

Julie Miller, Samantha Brady, Alexa Balmuth, Lisa D’Ambrosio, and Joseph Coughlin. “Student Loans at the Dinner Table: Family Communication Patterns about Student Loans before Accrual and during Repayment.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues 42, no. 2 (June 2021): pp. 251–71.

Erica Szkody, and Cliff McKinney. “Family Communication Patterns and Relationship Quality between Emerging Adults and Their Parents.” Journal of Social & Personal Relationships 38 (11), 2021, pp. 3177–97.

Dana A. Weiser, Miriam Lieway, Randal D. Brown, M. Rosie Shrout, Kristan N. Russell, Daniel J. Weigel, and William P. Evans. “Parent Communication about Sexual and Relationship Violence: Promoting Healthy Relationships or Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?” Family Relations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies 71 (1), 2022, pp. 181–200.

Intergenerational issues and longitudinal studies

Quinten S. Bernhold, “Patterns of Age-Related Communication in Families: A Three-Generation Study.” Language & Communication 72 (May), 2020, pp.79–92

Jessica D. Freeman, Jessica Elton, and Andrea Lambert South. “‘A Second-Chance at Being a Parent’: Grandparent Caregivers’ Reported Communication and Parenting Practices with Co-Residential Grandchildren.” Journal of Family Communication 19 (3), 2019, pp. 261–76.

Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, John O. Greene, Lindsey B. Anderson, Lareina Hingson, Elizabeth Gill, Brenda L. Berkelaar, and Melanie Morgan, “The Family Environment of ‘Quick-Witted’ Persons: Birth Order, Family Communication Patterns, and Creative Facility.” Communication Studies 68 (5), 2017, pp. 493–510

Emily A. Rauscher, Paul Schrodt, Gemme Campbell-Salome, and Jennifer Freytag. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Communication Patterns: (In)Consistencies in Conversation and Conformity Orientations across Two Generations of Family.” Journal of Family Communication 20 (2), 2020, p. 97–113.

Families and youth sports interactions

Paul D. Turman, “Parental Sport Involvement: Parental Influence to Encourage Young Athlete Continued Sport Participation.” Journal of Family Communication 7 (3), 2007, pp. 151–75.

Katherine A. Tamminen,, Zoe A. Poucher, and Victoria Povilaitis. “The Car Ride Home: An Interpretive Examination of Parent–athlete Sport Conversations.” Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology 6 (4), 2017, 325–39.

Cultural or racial contexts

Xiaowen Guan and Xiaohui Li. “A Cross-Cultural Examination of Family Communication Patterns, Parent-Child Closeness, and Conflict Styles in the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia.” Journal of Family Communication 17 (3), 2017, pp.223–37.

Shelly R. Hovick, Jill S. Yamasaki, Allison M. Burton-Chase, and Susan K. Peterson. “Patterns of Family Health History Communication among Older African American Adults.” Journal of Health Communication 20 (1), 2015, pp.80–87.