Publications

Publication details [#52093]

Braithwaite, D.O., Paige W. Toller, Adam C. Jones, Karen L. Daas and Wesley T. Durham. 2008. Centered but not Caught in the Middle: Stepchildren's Perceptions of Dialectical Contradictions in the Communication of Co-Parents. Journal of Applied Communication Research 36 (1) : 33–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contradicting | experience | family conversation | identity negotiation | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study uses a dialectical perspective to explore how stepchildren experience and communicatively manage the alternative perceptions of being caught in the middle versus (the preferred) feeling centered in the family.