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Building Capacity for Positive Communication: A Web-Based Mother-Daughter Communication Resource to Support Work-Family Balance

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Research evidence has suggested that a positive mother-daughter relationship relates to both the mother’s work outcomes and the daughter’s psychosocial adjustment. Intervening to improve mother-daughter communication may thus offer means to support women’s long-term work outcomes. Phenomenographic analysis of two focus groups of mother-daughter dyads, one with mothers (n = 4) and one with daughters (n = 4), revealed three key themes related to the mother-daughter relationship, including communication styles, parenting styles, and conflict resolution styles. To address these issues, the authors developed an interactive, web-based game, called Knowing you, Knowing me (KYKM). KYKM is similar to a social media site, except that an automated character guides the mother-daughter pair through an intervention. The game has implications for families working through common issues when children progress through adolescence and has the potential to evolve to address other family relationships (e.g., mother-son) and topics.

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The authors acknowledges the funding support for this project from Queensland Health, DRUG-ARM Australasia, .auDA Foundation, Drink Safe Coalition, Sunshine Coast Youth Partnership and Project support from the following organisations: Various Artists and Virtual Obsession.

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    Mary Katsikitis, Christian Jones & Melody Muscat

  2. Eviva Pty Ltd, Kuranda, QLD, Australia

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Katsikitis, M., Jones, C., Muscat, M., Crawford, K. (2016). Building Capacity for Positive Communication: A Web-Based Mother-Daughter Communication Resource to Support Work-Family Balance. In: Gervais, R., Millear, P. (eds) Exploring Resources, Life-Balance and Well-Being of Women Who Work in a Global Context. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31736-6_10

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