Published
In the August 2009 publication of Communication Research Reports, a scholarly, academic journal sponsored by the Eastern Communication Association, Matthew Sutton, CRA’s manager of strategy and research, published an article about the impact of communication and smoking behaviors among college students. The research article, co-authored by Dr. Maria Brann of West Virginia University, found that students’ attitudes toward communicating about smoking were positively associated with their behavioral intention to smoke.
The research was conducted among 100 college students from a large Mid-Atlantic university. Many statistical tests were done to conduct the research, including internal reliability tests, the creation of behavior scales, and Pearson product-moment correlations.
Communication Research Reports publishes brief empirical articles on a variety of topics pertaining to human communication. Studies in the general areas of interpersonal, intercultural, life-span, nonverbal, small group, organizational, instructional, health, persuasive, mass, political, and computer-mediated communication are appropriate.
Communication Research Reports is supported by the Eastern Communication Association, a regional communication association, and it has a national and international readership. The journal is considered by many leaders in the field to be the best source for short research reports on communication.