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Paul Schrodt is affiliated with Texas Christian University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with particular attention to social psychology, sociology and political science, demography, clinical psychology, and health. The main topics covered in their work include attachment and relationship dynamics, family dynamics and relationships, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, LGBTQ health, identity and policy, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, religion, spirituality, and psychology, as well as work-family balance challenges.

Schrodt has published extensively, contributing to a range of journals. Frequent publication venues include Communication Quarterly, Journal of Family Communication, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Health Communication, and Communication Research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Schrodt are Haley Decker, Xavier Scruggs, Andrew M. Ledbetter, Emily Stager, and Crosby G. Cobb.

Recent publications by Schrodt cover diverse aspects of family communication and relational quality. Selected papers include:

  • The Frequency and Comfort of Political Conversations with Parents as Mediators of Family Communication Patterns and Relational Quality in Parent-Child Relationships, 2020, Journal of Family Communication
  • Perceptions of Fathers' Confirmation and Affection as Mediators of Masculinity and Relational Quality in Father-Child Relationships, 2020, Journal of Family Communication
  • Young Adults' Shared Family Identity with Parents as a Function of Family Communication Patterns, 2020, Communication Reports
  • Witnessing Interparental Conflict, Feeling Caught, and Mental Health: A Conditional Process Analysis Involving Parental Confirmation and Divorce Status, 2021, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • What is the Bar? Differentiating Good from Great Communication Scholarship, 2020, Communication Monographs

The topics covered in these papers align closely with Schrodt's research interests regarding family communication patterns, relational quality between family members, masculinity in father-child relationships, mental health in the context of interparental conflict, and communication scholarship standards.

The scholar's work reflects interdisciplinary engagement with social and psychological dimensions of family and interpersonal relationships, contributing to understanding how communication influences relational and emotional outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Family Communication: Cohesion and Change

    Kathleen M. Galvin;Dawn O. Braithwaite;Paul Schrodt;Carma L. Bylund

  • Engaging theories in interpersonal communication : multiple perspectives

    Dawn O. Braithwaite;Paul Schrodt

  • A Meta-Analytical Review of Family Communication Patterns and their Associations with Information Processing, Behavioral, and Psychosocial Outcomes

    Paul Schrodt;Paul L. Witt;Amber S. Messersmith

  • Parental Confirmation and Affection as Mediators of Family Communication Patterns and Children's Mental Well-Being

    Paul Schrodt;Andrew M. Ledbetter;Jennifer K. Ohrt

  • Engaging Theories in Interpersonal Communication

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  • An Introduction to the Special Issue on Family Communication Patterns Theory

    Ascan F. Koerner;Paul Schrodt

  • "Feeling Caught" as a Mediator of Adolescents' and Young Adults' Avoidance and Satisfaction with Their Parents in Divorced and Non-Divorced Households.

    Tamara D. Afifi;Paul Schrodt

  • Uncertainty and the Avoidance of the State of One's Family in Stepfamilies, Postdivorce Single‐Parent Families, and First‐Marriage Families

    Tamara D. Afifi;Paul Schrodt

  • An Examination of Academic Mentoring Behaviors and New Faculty Members' Satisfaction with Socialization and Tenure and Promotion Processes

    Paul Schrodt;Carol Stringer Cawyer;Renee Sanders

  • A Meta-Analytical Review of Teacher Credibility and its Associations with Teacher Behaviors and Student Outcomes

    Amber N. Finn;Paul Schrodt;Paul L. Witt;Nikki Elledge

  • Communication Processes That Mediate Family Communication Patterns and Mental Well‐Being: A Mean and Covariance Structures Analysis of Young Adults From Divorced and Nondivorced Families

    Paul Schrodt;Andrew M. Ledbetter

  • Cognitive Flexibility as a Mediator of Family Communication Environments and Young Adults' Well-Being

    Joy Koesten;Paul Schrodt;Debra J Ford

  • Communication Processes that Predict Young Adults’ Feelings of Being Caught and their Associations with Mental Health and Family Satisfaction

    Paul Schrodt;Tamara D. Afifi

  • Instructor Credibility as a Mediator of Instructors’ Prosocial Communication Behaviors and Students’ Learning Outcomes

    Paul Schrodt;Paul L. Witt;Paul D. Turman;Scott A. Myers

  • Family Communication

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  • “Parent teams” and the everyday interactions of co‐parenting in stepfamilies

    Dawn O. Braithwaite;M. Chad McBride;M. Chad McBride;Paul Schrodt

  • The relationship between organizational identification and organizational culture: Employee perceptions of culture and identification in a retail sales organization

    Paul Schrodt

  • Students' Appraisals of Instructors as a Function of Students' Perceptions of Instructors' Aggressive Communication

    Paul Schrodt

  • A Social Relations Model of Everyday Talk and Relational Satisfaction in Stepfamilies

    Paul Schrodt;Jordan Soliz;Dawn O. Braithwaite

  • Learner Empowerment and Teacher Evaluations as Functions of Teacher Power Use in the College Classroom

    Paul Schrodt;Paul L. Witt;Scott A. Myers;Paul D. Turman

  • Family Communication Schemata and the Circumplex Model of Family Functioning

    Paul Schrodt

  • Student Perceptions of Teacher Power as a Function of Perceived Teacher Confirmation

    Paul D. Turman;Paul Schrodt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamara D. Afifi
Tamara D. Afifi University of California, Santa Barbara
Scott A. Myers
Scott A. Myers West Virginia University
Leslie A. Baxter
Leslie A. Baxter University of Iowa
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark A. Fine
Mark A. Fine University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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