From conflict between couples to communication between parents and children, Paul Schrodt’s family communication expertise was recently shared in several national media outlets.
Schrodt, Philip J. & Cheryl C. Burguières Professor and director of graduate studies in Schieffer College, studies the communication patterns and behaviors that shape family relationships. Recent media coverage has tapped that expertise to examine several ways communication — or its absence — can affect relationships.
In a Yahoo!Life feature, Schrodt’s research helped explain the lasting effects of growing up in a household where parents respond to conflict by going silent, including how children can carry communication habits learned at home into their adult relationships.
MSN featured his expertise in a story examining phrases commonly heard in unhappy marriages and the communication patterns they can reveal between partners.
Schrodt’s research was also featured in a NewsBreak article exploring triangulation, a family communication dynamic in which a third person becomes caught in a conflict between two others. Schrodt has extensively studied the phenomenon, including a meta-analysis of 49 studies and more than 23,000 participants that found a meaningful relationship between conflict between parents and children feeling caught in the middle.
Together, the three media appearances highlight how Schrodt’s research helps audiences better understand the everyday communication patterns that can influence relationships across generations.