Sarah Devereux is a fourth-year PhD candidate with a concentration in communication studies. Her current research focuses on the process and outcomes of supportive messages in interpersonal relationships, and her expertise lies in supportive communication, coping, and stigma. Specifically, she investigates the factors that make a supportive interaction successful, often in stigmatized contexts, and examines both the provider’s and recipient’s perspectives. She employs mixed methodologies in her scholarship, with experience collecting data via open-ended interviews, content analyses, surveys, and experimental manipulations.
Research Interests
- Interpersonal communication
- Supportive communication
- Coping
- Stigma
PhD Committee
- Associate Professor Jenny Crowley (chair)
- Associate Professor Quinten Bernhold
- Assistant Professor Jessica Frampton
- Associate Professor Megan Haselschwerdt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of Education, Health, and Human Services
