Uncertainty, information management, and disclosure decisions
Subtitle: theories and applications
By: Tamara D. Afifi, Walid A. Afifi, editors.
Contributors: Afifi, Tamara D.; Afifi, Walid A.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780415965156; 9780415965163
Subjects: Uncertainty; Risk assessment; Disclosure of information; Management
Table of contents: title: Generally unseen challenges in uncertainty management : an application of problematic integration theory / Austin S. Babrow; title: Reclaiming uncertainty : the formation of new meanings / Leslie A. Baxter; title: The theory of communication and uncertainty management : implications from the wider realm of information behavior / Timothy P. Hogan; title: Information seeking and interpersonal outcomes using the internet / Artemio Ramirez, Jr.; title: Expanding the role of emotion in the theory of motivated information management / Walid A. Afifi; title: Relational uncertainty : theory and application / Leanne K. Knobloch; title: Motivated cognition in its interpersonal context : need for closure and its implications for information regulation and social interaction / Mark Dechesne; title: Use of the risk perception attitude (RPA) framework for understanding health information seeking : the role of anxiety, risk perception, and efficacy beliefs / Rajiv N. Rimal; title: Managing uncertainty in work interactions / Michael W. Kramer; title: Information regulation in work-life : applying the comprehensive model of information seeking to organizational networks / J. David Johnson; title: Couples, communication, and uncertainty in the face of chronic illness / Daena J. Goldsmith; title: An integrated model of health disclosure decision-making / Kathryn Greene; title: Information uncertainty and sexual disclosures in the era of HIV/AIDs / Serena C. Lo; title: Why people conceal or reveal secrets : a multiple goals theory perspective / John P. Caughlin; title: Secrecy in close relationships : investigating its intrapersonal and interpersonal effects / Catrin Finkenauer; title: Conflict avoidance : a functional analysis / Michael Roloff; title: The standards for openness hypothesis : a gendered explanation for why avoidance is so dissatisfying / Tamara D. Afifi; title: Regulating the privacy of confidentiality : grasping the complexities through communication privacy management theory / Sandra Petronio; title: Why disclosing to a confidant can be so good (or bad) for us / Anita Kelly; title: The divorce disclosure model (DDM) : why parents disclose negative information about the divorce to their children and its effects / Tamara D. Afifi.