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Emily M. Buehler, PhD

Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Buehler, E. M., & High, A. C. (in press). Seeking support online: How anonymity, visibility, and relationship closeness shape support-seeking messages. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000453

Youngvorst, L. J., & Buehler, E. M. (2025). Contextual factors influencing online support providers’ motivations and message provision. Western Journal of Communication, 89(1), 207–233. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2395323

Buehler, E. M., Crowley, J. L., Peterson, A. M., & Jackl, J. A. (2024). Family communication patterns, mediated communication, and well-being: A communication interdependence perspective on parent–adult child relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships41(5), 1113-1135. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221145628

Buehler, E. M., High, A. C., Bishop, R. E.*, Johnson, J. D.*, Lee, D. A.*, Lilly, A. E.*, & Sweeney, K.* (2024). Examining the attributional links between message quality and outcomes of emotional support received on Facebook. Communication Studies, 75(2), 132-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2023.2269643

Lee, D. G.*, & Buehler, E. M. (2024). “Thank you for being there for me”: How channel publicness and expression of gratitude shape perceptions of support-seeking messages on social network sites. Communication Quarterly72(5), 439-460. https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2024.2378689

Shrout, M. R., Buehler, E. M., Lee, D. G., & Renna, M. E. (2024). Illness-related partner communication predicts better health, COVID, and social-contextual outcomes amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of students with concealable chronic health conditions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(11), 3359-3384. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241264852

Buehler, E. M., & High, A. C. (2023). Indirect effects of video chat on outcomes of receiving support: Uniting theorizing about supportive communication and computer-mediated communication. Communication Monographs90(1), 92-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2022.2117393

Lilly, A. E.*, & Buehler, E. M. (2023). Online daters' reactions to sexually explicit initiation messages. Personal Relationships30(3), 960-979. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12486

Buehler, E. M., & Youngvorst, L. J. (2022). Online support-seeking in the context of grief: How support-seeking message content and communication channels shape support providers’ impressions of the bereaved. Computers in Human Behavior137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107428

Buehler, E. M., Crowley, J. L., Peterson, A. M., & High, A. C. (2019). Broadcasting for help: A typology of support-seeking strategies on Facebook. New Media & Society, 21(11-12), 2566-2588. https://doi.org/10.1177/146144481985382

High, A. C. & Buehler, E. M. (2019). Receiving supportive communication from Facebook friends: A model of social ties and supportive communication in social network sites. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(3), 719-740. https://doi.org/10.1177/026540751774297

Buehler, E. M., Peterson, A. M., & High, A. C. (2018). Investigating the role of problem severity and channel publicness on the sophistication of support-seeking messages on social network sites: A replication study. Communication Studies, 69(3), 304-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2018.1463275

Buehler, E. M. (2017). “You shouldn’t use Facebook for that”: Navigating norm violations while seeking emotional support on Facebook. Social Media + Society, 3(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051177332

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*Graduate student co-author

Book Chapters

High, A. C., Buehler, E. M., & Youngvorst, L. J. (2020). Complexities of channel publicness and (in)effective support behaviors. In N. Egbert & K. B. Wright (Eds.), Social support and health in the digital age (pp. 61-88). Lexington Books.

High, A. C., Crowley, J. L., & Buehler, E. M. (2017). The couples helping exercise. In D. L. Worthington & G. D. Bodie (Eds.), Sourcebook of listening research measures and methodology, pp. 239-245. Wiley-Blackwell.

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