![]() ![]() Most messages were communicated in a private and informal/unplanned conversations. Regarding memorable messages on family, mothers communicated messages about marriage/relationship (i.e., prioritization of work over family, readiness for marriage/family, and premarital rules), family responsibility, and support/love/unity whereas fathers communicated messages about the importance of family (i.e., family is everything, family is first), marriage, and father responsibility. Regarding memorable messages on work, fathers communicated messages about having priorities and work input whereas mothers communicated messages about attitudes towards work (i.e., working hard, not missing work, and treating people well), the value of work (i.e., education and financial empowerment), perseverance, and offered encouragement. Themes of work enjoyment and marriage prevailed across memorable messages about work and family respectively. ![]() Quantitative responses were analyzed through regressions using SPSS and qualitative data was coded with Nvivo to examine memorable messages that young adult daughters receive from parents regarding work/career and family. Using both online and paper surveys, participants responded to opened-and closed-ended questions directed at either their mother or father who are biological or non-biological and alive or deceased. ![]() Specifically, I examine: (a) the content and context of memorable messages about work and/or family (b) the connection between daughters' closeness to parents and daughters' likelihood to transmit these messages and (c) the impact of mothers' socialization messages about work/career and family on daughters' personal, relational, and enacted identities (identity layers within the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI Hecht (1993)). Employing adult daughters' (N = 254) perspectives of their communication, relational quality, and identities with and surrounding their relationships with parents, I bridge organizational and family communication's scholarship realms to address family socialization regarding work/career and family. ![]()
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