Author's Keywords: Health Communication, Health Care Provider, Family Caregiving, Older Adult Parent-Adult-Child Relationship, Cancer Communication, Communication Competency, Humor Orientation, Relational Satisfaction	Convention Need a solution for abstract management? All Academic can help! Contact us today to find out how our system can help your annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Harzold, Elizabeth. and Sparks, Lisa. "When the Parent has Cancer: Adult Child Perceptions of Communication Competency, Humor Orientation, and Relational Satisfaction in the Older Adult Parent-Adult Child Relationship" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p90214_index.html>

Harzold, E. and Sparks, L. "When the Parent has Cancer: Adult Child Perceptions of Communication Competency, Humor Orientation, and Relational Satisfaction in the Older Adult Parent-Adult Child Relationship" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p90214_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Abstract This study takes a life span developmental communicative approach to examine the relationships between communication competency, humor orientation, and relational satisfaction in the older adult parent-adult child dyad when the parent has been diagnosed with cancer. Results indicate that communication competency is associated with humor orientation and relational satisfaction while humor itself may operate in more complex ways within the family cancer context. As predicted, communication competency had a significantly positive correlation with both humor orientation and relational satisfaction. Humor orientation was not significantly correlated with relational satisfaction. Content analysis of open-ended data revealed that discussing diagnosis and treatment procedures with children was often a satisfying conversation whereas withholding information had an adverse affect. The discussion of parents' feelings during the cancer period was complex. Humor was often used as a coping or relief function for discussing side effects of cancer treatment.

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