Published Journal Articles
Horstman, H., Schrodt, P., Warner, B. E., Hays, A., Maliski, R., Koerner, A., & Colaner, C.W. (in press). "Expanding the conceptual and empirical boundaries of family communication patterns: The development and validation of an expanded conformity orientation scale. Communication Monographs.
Horstman, H.K., Colaner, C.W., Nelson, L.R., Bish, A., & Hays, A. (2018). Communicatively constructing the birth parent relationship in open adoptive families: Naming, connecting, and relational functioning. Journal of Family Communication. [online publication first] doi:10.1080/15267431.2018.1429444
Nelson, L. R., & Colaner, C. W. (2018). Blending cultures: Communicatively negotiating divergent racial identities in visibly adoptive families. Journal of Family Communication, 18, 51-67. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2017.1396987
Colaner, C. W., Horstman, H. K., & Rittenour, C. E. (2017). Adult adoptee family identification with birth and adoptive families: An application of the Common Ingroup Identity Model. Western Journal of Communication.
Colaner, C. W., & Soliz, J. (2017). A communication-based approach to adoptive identity: Theoretical and empirical support. Communication Research, 44, 611-637. doi: 10.1177/0093650215577860
Horstman, H. K., Butauski, M., Johnsen, L. J., & Colaner, C. W. (2017). The communication privacy management of adopted individuals in their social networks: Disclosure decisions in light of the discourse of biological normativity. Communication Studies. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1324890
Horstman, H. K., Colaner, C. W., & Rittenour, C. E. (2016). Contributing factors of adult adoptees’ identity work and self-esteem: Family communication patterns and adoption-specific communication. Journal of Family Communication, 16, 263-276. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2016. 1181069
Colaner, C. W., & Scharp, K. (2016). Maintaining open adoption relationships: Practitioner insights on adoptive parents’ regulation of adoption kinship networks. Communication Studies, 67, 359-378. doi: 10.1080/10510974.2016.1164208
Hays, A., & Colaner, C. W. (2016). Discursively constructing identity after an autism diagnosis: Trials, tribulations, and triumphs. Journal of Family Communication, 16, 143-159. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2016.1146722
Hays, A., Horstman, H., Colaner, C. W., & Nelson, L. (2016). “She chose us to be your parents”: Exploring the content and process of adoption entrance narratives told in families formed through open adoption. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33, 917-937. doi: 10.1177/0265407515611494
Colaner, C. W., & Rittenour, C. E. (2015). “Feminism begins at home”: The influence of mother gender socialization on daughter career and motherhood aspirations as channeled through daughter feminist identification. Communication Quarterly, 63, 81-98. doi: 10.1080/01463373.2014.965839
Colaner, C. W. (2014). Measuring adoptive identity: Validation of the Adoptive Identity Work Scale. Adoption Quarterly, 17, 134-157. doi: 10.1080/10926755.2014.891546
Colaner, C. W., Halliwell, D., & Guignon, P. (2014). “What do you say to your mother when your mother’s standing beside you?” Birth and adoptive family contributions to adoptive identity via relational identity and relational-relational identity gaps. Communication Monographs, 81, 469-494. doi: 10.1080/03637751.2014.955808
Colaner, C.W., Soliz, J., & Nelson, L. R. (2014). Communicatively managing religious identity difference in parent-child relationships: The role of accommodative and non-accommodative communication. Journal of Family Communication, 14, 310-327. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2014.945700
Rittenour, C. E., Colaner, C. W., & Odenweller, K. G. (2014). Mothers’ identities and gender socialization of daughters. Southern Communication Journal, 79, 215-234. doi: 10.1080/1041794X.2014.895408
Rittenour, C. E., & Colaner, C. W. (2012). Finding female fulfillment: Intersecting role-based and morality-based identities of motherhood, feminism, and generativity as predictors of women’s self satisfaction and life satisfaction. Sex Roles, 67, 351-362. doi: 10.1007/s11199-012-0186-7
Colaner, C. W., & Kranstuber, H. (2010). “Forever kind of wondering”: Communicatively managing uncertainty in adoptive families. Journal of Family Communication, 10, 236-255. doi: 10.1080/15267431003682435
Colaner, C. W. (2009). Exploring the communication of Evangelical families: The impact of Evangelical gender role ideology on family communication patterns. Communication Studies, 60, 97-113. doi: 10.1080/10510970902834833
Colaner, C. W., & Giles, S. M. (2008). The baby blanket or the briefcase: The impact of Evangelical gender role ideologies on career and mothering aspirations of female Evangelical college students. Sex Roles, 58, 526-534. doi: 10.1007/s11199-007-9352-8
Colaner, C. W., & Warner, S. C. (2005). The effect of egalitarian and complementarian gender role attitudes on career aspirations in female undergraduate college students. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 33, 225-229.
Book Chapters
Colaner, C. W., Horstman, H., & *Butauski, M. (Forthcoming). Sustaining and draining? Adoptive mothers’ enactment of rituals in open adoption relationships. In Miller-Day, M. & Alford, A. (Eds.), Constructing Motherhood and Daughterhood: Communicating Across Generations. New York: Peter Lang.
Soliz, J., & Colaner, C. W. (2017). Communication accommodation theory and communication theory of identity: Theories of communication and identity. In Braithwaite, D., Suter, B., & Floyd, K. (Eds.), Engaging theories in family communication: Multiple perspectives (2nd Ed). New York: Routledge.
Warner, B., & Colaner, C. W. (2016). Talking politics at the dinner table: The effects of family communication styles on young citizens’ normative political attitudes. In E. Thorson, M. McKinney & D. Shaw (Eds.), Political socialization in a media saturated world (pp. 195-212). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
Soliz, J., & Colaner, C. W. (2015). Familial solidarity and religious identity: Communication and Interfaith Families. In L. Turner & R. West (Eds.), The Sage handbook of family communication (pp. 401-416). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Galvin, K., & Colaner, C. (2013). Created through law and language: Communicative complexities of adoptive families. In K. Floyd & M. Morman (Eds.), Widening the family circle (2nd ed., pp. 191-209). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Other Publications
Galvin, K., & Colaner, C. W. (2015). Communication in adoptive families. In C. Berger & M. Roloff (Eds.), International encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication. Hoboken, NJ: WileyBlackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118540190.wbeic078. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118540190.wbeic078/.
Colaner, C. W., *Poynter, D., & *Nelson, L. (2014). Second parent adoption (stepparents). In L. Ganong & M. Coleman (Eds.), Social history of American families: An encyclopedia (pp. 32-33). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452286143
Braithwaite, D. O., Breshears, D., & Colaner, C. W. (2009). Weddings. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships (Vol. 3, pp. 1687-1688). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Horstman, H., Schrodt, P., Warner, B. E., Hays, A., Maliski, R., Koerner, A., & Colaner, C.W. (in press). "Expanding the conceptual and empirical boundaries of family communication patterns: The development and validation of an expanded conformity orientation scale. Communication Monographs.
Horstman, H.K., Colaner, C.W., Nelson, L.R., Bish, A., & Hays, A. (2018). Communicatively constructing the birth parent relationship in open adoptive families: Naming, connecting, and relational functioning. Journal of Family Communication. [online publication first] doi:10.1080/15267431.2018.1429444
Nelson, L. R., & Colaner, C. W. (2018). Blending cultures: Communicatively negotiating divergent racial identities in visibly adoptive families. Journal of Family Communication, 18, 51-67. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2017.1396987
Colaner, C. W., Horstman, H. K., & Rittenour, C. E. (2017). Adult adoptee family identification with birth and adoptive families: An application of the Common Ingroup Identity Model. Western Journal of Communication.
Colaner, C. W., & Soliz, J. (2017). A communication-based approach to adoptive identity: Theoretical and empirical support. Communication Research, 44, 611-637. doi: 10.1177/0093650215577860
Horstman, H. K., Butauski, M., Johnsen, L. J., & Colaner, C. W. (2017). The communication privacy management of adopted individuals in their social networks: Disclosure decisions in light of the discourse of biological normativity. Communication Studies. Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1324890
Horstman, H. K., Colaner, C. W., & Rittenour, C. E. (2016). Contributing factors of adult adoptees’ identity work and self-esteem: Family communication patterns and adoption-specific communication. Journal of Family Communication, 16, 263-276. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2016. 1181069
Colaner, C. W., & Scharp, K. (2016). Maintaining open adoption relationships: Practitioner insights on adoptive parents’ regulation of adoption kinship networks. Communication Studies, 67, 359-378. doi: 10.1080/10510974.2016.1164208
Hays, A., & Colaner, C. W. (2016). Discursively constructing identity after an autism diagnosis: Trials, tribulations, and triumphs. Journal of Family Communication, 16, 143-159. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2016.1146722
Hays, A., Horstman, H., Colaner, C. W., & Nelson, L. (2016). “She chose us to be your parents”: Exploring the content and process of adoption entrance narratives told in families formed through open adoption. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33, 917-937. doi: 10.1177/0265407515611494
Colaner, C. W., & Rittenour, C. E. (2015). “Feminism begins at home”: The influence of mother gender socialization on daughter career and motherhood aspirations as channeled through daughter feminist identification. Communication Quarterly, 63, 81-98. doi: 10.1080/01463373.2014.965839
Colaner, C. W. (2014). Measuring adoptive identity: Validation of the Adoptive Identity Work Scale. Adoption Quarterly, 17, 134-157. doi: 10.1080/10926755.2014.891546
Colaner, C. W., Halliwell, D., & Guignon, P. (2014). “What do you say to your mother when your mother’s standing beside you?” Birth and adoptive family contributions to adoptive identity via relational identity and relational-relational identity gaps. Communication Monographs, 81, 469-494. doi: 10.1080/03637751.2014.955808
Colaner, C.W., Soliz, J., & Nelson, L. R. (2014). Communicatively managing religious identity difference in parent-child relationships: The role of accommodative and non-accommodative communication. Journal of Family Communication, 14, 310-327. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2014.945700
Rittenour, C. E., Colaner, C. W., & Odenweller, K. G. (2014). Mothers’ identities and gender socialization of daughters. Southern Communication Journal, 79, 215-234. doi: 10.1080/1041794X.2014.895408
Rittenour, C. E., & Colaner, C. W. (2012). Finding female fulfillment: Intersecting role-based and morality-based identities of motherhood, feminism, and generativity as predictors of women’s self satisfaction and life satisfaction. Sex Roles, 67, 351-362. doi: 10.1007/s11199-012-0186-7
Colaner, C. W., & Kranstuber, H. (2010). “Forever kind of wondering”: Communicatively managing uncertainty in adoptive families. Journal of Family Communication, 10, 236-255. doi: 10.1080/15267431003682435
Colaner, C. W. (2009). Exploring the communication of Evangelical families: The impact of Evangelical gender role ideology on family communication patterns. Communication Studies, 60, 97-113. doi: 10.1080/10510970902834833
Colaner, C. W., & Giles, S. M. (2008). The baby blanket or the briefcase: The impact of Evangelical gender role ideologies on career and mothering aspirations of female Evangelical college students. Sex Roles, 58, 526-534. doi: 10.1007/s11199-007-9352-8
Colaner, C. W., & Warner, S. C. (2005). The effect of egalitarian and complementarian gender role attitudes on career aspirations in female undergraduate college students. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 33, 225-229.
Book Chapters
Colaner, C. W., Horstman, H., & *Butauski, M. (Forthcoming). Sustaining and draining? Adoptive mothers’ enactment of rituals in open adoption relationships. In Miller-Day, M. & Alford, A. (Eds.), Constructing Motherhood and Daughterhood: Communicating Across Generations. New York: Peter Lang.
Soliz, J., & Colaner, C. W. (2017). Communication accommodation theory and communication theory of identity: Theories of communication and identity. In Braithwaite, D., Suter, B., & Floyd, K. (Eds.), Engaging theories in family communication: Multiple perspectives (2nd Ed). New York: Routledge.
Warner, B., & Colaner, C. W. (2016). Talking politics at the dinner table: The effects of family communication styles on young citizens’ normative political attitudes. In E. Thorson, M. McKinney & D. Shaw (Eds.), Political socialization in a media saturated world (pp. 195-212). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
Soliz, J., & Colaner, C. W. (2015). Familial solidarity and religious identity: Communication and Interfaith Families. In L. Turner & R. West (Eds.), The Sage handbook of family communication (pp. 401-416). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Galvin, K., & Colaner, C. (2013). Created through law and language: Communicative complexities of adoptive families. In K. Floyd & M. Morman (Eds.), Widening the family circle (2nd ed., pp. 191-209). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Other Publications
Galvin, K., & Colaner, C. W. (2015). Communication in adoptive families. In C. Berger & M. Roloff (Eds.), International encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication. Hoboken, NJ: WileyBlackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118540190.wbeic078. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118540190.wbeic078/.
Colaner, C. W., *Poynter, D., & *Nelson, L. (2014). Second parent adoption (stepparents). In L. Ganong & M. Coleman (Eds.), Social history of American families: An encyclopedia (pp. 32-33). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452286143
Braithwaite, D. O., Breshears, D., & Colaner, C. W. (2009). Weddings. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships (Vol. 3, pp. 1687-1688). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.