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This study aims to examine the role of body language in building trust in first interactions among teenagers in Bandung City. Through an ethnomethodological approach, this study analyzes various nonverbal elements such as facial expressions, hand gestures, body posture, and proxemics that influence perceptions of trust. Data was collected through participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and video analysis.  The results show that body language plays a crucial role in establishing trust at the first interaction. A genuine smile and consistent eye contact are key indicators used by adolescents to assess trust. Open hand gestures and upright posture also contribute positively to perceptions of trust.Appropriate interpersonal distance helps create a sense of comfort and trust, while a warm tone of voice and a moderate pace of speech increase perceptions of sincerity.  Local cultural norms and the influence of global trends affect the way adolescents use body language in their interactions. Gender differences were also found, with adolescent girls being more expressive in hand gestures and facial expressions, while adolescent boys relied more on body posture and tone of voice. The study concludes that understanding and effective use of body language is key in building trust in first interactions. Practical implications of the findings include developing nonverbal communication skills in adolescent education and increasing cultural awareness in social interactions.      

This study aims to analyze the effect of social media use on interpersonal communication skills among adolescents in Bandung City. This research uses quantitative method with survey approach. The research sample consisted of 100 randomly selected teenagers. Data were collected through a questionnaire that measured the frequency, duration, type, and purpose of social media use as well as interpersonal communication skills.The results of multiple regression analysis showed that frequency of social media use (B = 0.432, p < 0.001), duration of social media use (B = 0.298, p < 0.01), type of social media used (B = 0.215, p < 0.05), and purpose of social media use (B = 0.148, p < 0.05) all had a positive and significant influence on interpersonal communication skills. The resulting regression model has a coefficient of determination (R²) of 0.572, which indicates that 57.2% of the variability in interpersonal communication skills can be explained by the independent variables used in this study.The findings indicate that social media use significantly affects adolescents' interpersonal communication skills. Frequency of social media use has the greatest influence, followed by duration, type, and purpose of social media use. Therefore, it is important for adolescents to utilize social media wisely in order to improve their interpersonal communication skills.    

This research investigates the impact of using the TikTok application on the communication patterns of Generation Z. TikTok has become a significant platform for this generation in conveying their expressions and interactions through creative video content. This study aims to explore how these applications influence the way Generation Z communicates, including changes in their digital self-expression. This research uses a qualitative approach to analyze how TikTok influences the dynamics of interpersonal communication, the use of visual language, and content consumption and production patterns in the current digital cultural context.      

This study explores the principles of politeness in language as crucial guidelines in social interaction. Using a literature review method, the research elucidates six maxims of politeness: wisdom, generosity, respect, humility, agreement, and sympathy. The findings illustrate how applying these principles can enhance communication effectiveness and harmony. The implications of this research strengthen understanding of communication dynamics and social behavior, providing a theoretical foundation for developing improved interaction strategies across various cultural contexts. The study also underscores the importance of communication as a complex process facilitating mutual understanding and social adaptation. Thus, a profound understanding of politeness in language has the potential to enhance the quality of interpersonal communication and strengthen social harmony in society.

Anxiety in interactive communication refers to an individual's negative reaction when communicating, especially in an interpersonal context, where individuals tend to avoid situations that trigger these negative feelings. Positive self-confidence allows a person to assess themselves and situations more positively, thereby reducing anxiety in interpersonal communication. This study aims to explore the relationship between self-confidence and interactive communication anxiety in female students living in dormitories. Data was collected using the Self-confidence scale and interpersonal communication anxiety scale, which have been well validated and have a high level of reliability. The results of the analysis show that there is a significant negative relationship between self-confidence and interactive communication anxiety (rxy = -0.608, sig. = 0.000 < 0.05), indicating that the higher the female student's self-confidence, the lower the level of interpersonal communication anxiety. Descriptive analysis also shows that most of the female students in the dormitory have a moderate level of self-confidence, while most of them have a low level of interactive communication anxiety.

The high maternal and newborn mortality rate is a burden for governments globally, considering that the maternal and newborn mortality rate is an indicator of a country's health. Various efforts have been made to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates, including reproductive health literacy, screening programs for pregnant women, improving pregnancy nutrition, and increasing accountability of health workers. This research aims to determine the level of interpersonal communication skills required by midwives, pregnant women and their families. A qualitative research approach using the case study method is used. This research involved six informants from three groups: program creators, program implementers, and program recipients. This research shows that every communicator must improve communication competencies, such as listening effectively, keeping secrets, opening up, and empathizing, to establish successful interpersonal communication between midwives, pregnant women, and the mother's family. Empathy is essential for effective communication between midwives, pregnant women and their families. The empathy in question occurs when communicators understand each other's position and do not force each other's will, giving the impression that the other party is ignoring them. Efforts to save mothers and newborn babies are a responsibility that must be carried out by all parties; This is not only the responsibility of the government, midwives or mothers of newborn babies, but collaboration is needed collaboratively so that efforts to save mothers and newborn babies can have a positive impact and bring about significant change with mutual benefits.

Language serves as a medium for interpersonal communication. The acquisition of language in children commences during infancy and progresses through exposure and linguistic maturation. The enhancement of linguistic abilities in early childhood is geared towards acquainting and enhancing their linguistic repertoire, enabling effective verbal interaction with their surroundings. The realm of language proficiency encompasses four key components: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. A method employed to foster linguistic proficiency involves the utilization of flashcards. The approach employed in this study involves a review of existing literature. The findings revealed that the utilization of flashcard materials has the potential to enhance linguistic abilities among young children by incorporating visual elements such as images, alphabets, symbols, and colors. This, in turn, captures the attention of children, facilitates easier retention of new words, enables recognition of letter shapes and sounds, enhances listening skills, promotes critical thinking, and encourages verbal expression, as evidenced by their communication proficiency.

Language serves as a medium for interpersonal communication. The acquisition of language in children commences during infancy and progresses through exposure and linguistic maturation. The enhancement of linguistic abilities in early childhood is geared towards acquainting and enhancing their linguistic repertoire, enabling effective verbal interaction with their surroundings. The realm of language proficiency encompasses four key components: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. A method employed to foster linguistic proficiency involves the utilization of flashcards. The approach employed in this study involves a review of existing literature. The findings revealed that the utilization of flashcard materials has the potential to enhance linguistic abilities among young children by incorporating visual elements such as images, alphabets, symbols, and colors. This, in turn, captures the attention of children, facilitates easier retention of new words, enables recognition of letter shapes and sounds, enhances listening skills, promotes critical thinking, and encourages verbal expression, as evidenced by their communication proficiency.

Learning the Koran requires special attention because of the high level of difficulty of the material. Blind teachers face complex challenges in classroom management and delivery of material, requiring special interpersonal communication strategies. This research aims to describe the interpersonal communication strategies of blind teachers in learning the Koran at MDTA Ahlul Ihya' Ponorogo, along with obstacles and solutions. A qualitative phenomenological approach was used by collecting data through observation, interviews and documentation from blind teachers, fellow teachers, students and parents. Data analysis includes reduction, presentation and drawing conclusions. The results show that communication strategies involve getting to know students personally, determining appropriate messages, methods and media. Barriers include difficulties in visual instructions, unclear use of symbols, impaired facilities, as well as semantic barriers due to incompatibility of language and background experience. The proposed solution includes deliberation and evaluation, collaboration with fellow teachers, meetings with student parents, and the creation of a learning guidebook.

Pondok Pesantren, Islamic boarding schools, play a crucial role in shaping the character of young generations. Effective communication management is essential to ensure the smooth execution of various educational, religious, and social activities. This study aims to analyze the concepts, objectives, functions, strategies, and influencing factors of communication management in Pondok Pesantren. The research method used is library research, which involves reviewing relevant literature. The findings indicate that communication management in pesantren encompasses planning, organizing, executing, and supervising communication processes to ensure effective dissemination of religious and educational messages. The primary goals of communication management are to achieve understanding, build acceptance, and motivate action. The functions of communication management include planning, organizing, executing, and controlling. Communication strategies are divided into internal strategies, such as dialogic communication, sharing, counseling, and interviews between caregivers and students, and external strategies, such as interpersonal dialogue, religious lectures, visits, provision of business capital, and zakat to the community. Factors influencing communication management include interaction, motivation, ethics, internal communication within the pesantren, and religious relationships within the community. With effective communication management, Pondok Pesantren can enhance the quality of education and character building for students and provide positive impacts on the community.

Principal communication is the process of conveying information to teachers and forwarded to students. The purpose of this study was to determine the principal's communication, including: Teacher professionalism; Teacher discipline; and Teacher responsibility. Qualitative approach with descriptive method. In terms of data collection is through literature study, literature study is the initial step in the data collection method. Literature study is a data collection method that is directed at finding data and information through documents, both written documents, photographs, images, and electronic documents that can support the writing process. The subjects of the study were teachers, principals, and school committees at Madrasah Aliyah Islamiyah Sunggal. The results of the study found: Principal communication in improving teacher professionalism is conveying messages to teachers both verbally and in writing; Principal communication in improving teacher discipline is providing exemplary examples by attending school on time; Principal communication in improving teacher responsibility is interpersonal communication, communication in solving problems in learning by coordinating and finding solutions with the school committee and supervisor, and the relevant Education Office. It is expected that the committee and the principal can provide encouragement and guidance in teacher performance regarding professionalism, discipline and teacher responsibility effectively and efficiently so that it can improve teacher performance in schools.

Technological developments have changed the way humans handle conflict. Face-to-face communication has become the least used method of conflict resolution. Nowadays, conflict resolution is established through mediated communication, one of which is the social media Instagram. This research uses a qualitative approach and attempts to explain the role of Instagram in mediating interpersonal communication processes to resolve conflicts related to gender issues. @poppyrahardjo's Instagram Live session was used as a corpus in this research. The research results show that interpersonal communication mediated by Instagram Live can provide space for communicators to open up and establish a similar perception of their opinions on gender issues. There are three stages to establishing a similar perception, discourse development, openness process, and perception equality process.

Parenting or parenting is a relationship between parents and children who are close and share effective parenting models. Technological advances in the era of globalization have greatly influenced the parenting process which is no longer limited to local culture. Various problems arise related to parenting and communication between parents and children. Interpersonal communication is communication carried out in two directions individually or in groups which elicits responses from both. This research aims to describe the application of digital parenting concepts by parents to children aged 2 -5 years in RT005/RW 007 Gunung Anyar Emas Housing Complex and determine the role of digital parenting in interpersonal communication between parents and children aged 2 -5 years. The method used is qualitative with a descriptive analysis approach. The subjects studied were parents and children aged 2-5 years, totaling 5 people who implemented digital parenting. The research results showed that the application of the digital parenting concept includes: 1) implementing rules and agreements in using gadgets; 2) guiding and accompanying children; 3) use child mode as parental control; 4) balance children's play time. In this way, interpersonal communication between parents and children develops as expected. This means that children's use of gadgets does not have a negative effect. This cannot be separated from the role of parents in caring for children digitally.

The phenomenon of moral or moral decadence is often seen by a wide audience today, starting from violence, brawls, exclusivism, to the loss of respect for foster children towards teachers/caregivers. All forms of dysfunction are indicated because good interpersonal communication has not been established. This research aims to analyze the interpersonal communication developed by caregivers at the Putra Utama 3 Children's Orphanage in fostering noble morals, as well as the efforts carried out and the obstacles faced during the implementation of moral guidance. Researchers used a qualitative approach with a field study type of research involving orphanage caregivers and several foster children as research informants. Data collection uses three approaches, namely observation, interviews and documentation. Meanwhile, data analysis uses three models, namely data reduction, data exposure, and drawing conclusions. The results of the research concluded that interpersonal communication among caregivers at the Putra Utama 3 Children's Social Home is something that is fundamentally implemented and represents all forms of action carried out through moral development. This is realized by social care caregivers through moral development efforts, both verbal and nonverbal. So, the obstacles faced during moral development can be resolved well.

In the era of globalization that marks the existence of long-distance relationships (LDR), the role of  language becomes an important focal point in understanding the dynamics of interaction between  couples separated by geographical distance. This research uses Systematic Literature Review with Prism  Method with the help of qualified google scholar. The results of the analysis are based on (23) twenty three relevant articles. Through the systematic literature review process within the span of last five  years, highlighting the complexity of interpersonal communication in the context of LDR. This article  discusses the extent of the role of language in LDR by using a sociolinguistic approach, emphasizing the  importance of openness, honesty. and intensity of communication as the main factors in maintaining the  relationship. Therefore, language is not only a means of communication, but also a foundation that builds and maintains emotional closeness between couples in LDR relationships, and provides insight  into strategies that can be used to overcome problems that arise in these situations.

This research was motivated by a topic regarding interpersonal communication patterns in polygamous families in Sibargot Village, Padang Rapuan Hamlet, West Bilah District, Labuhan Batu Regency. The reason for the formation of this research explains, analyzes or details the elements of communication carried out by husband couples with one wife and the other wife, the series of communications between wives, the forms of interaction between children, and the communication barriers faced by polygamous families in Sibargot Village, Padang Rapuan Hamlet. This research uses descriptive qualitative analysis, namely observing and interpreting data found through documents, interviews and observations. The data obtained is first checked for accuracy through data testing techniques. As for analyzing data by selecting, displaying and making conclusions. The results of this research show that the series of communications carried out by husbands to each of their wives does not have a specific communication pattern that occurs in their family, but each family has its own method of managing its two wives. The husband's communication policy is one-way. Then, the two wives used a form of balanced communication interaction between their wives. Things that hinder communication are caused by the lack of time to meet and interact between wives and husbands, resulting in the difficulty of creating a conducive atmosphere in resolving problems which results in many bad perceptions.  

This research aims to analyze the relationship between business communication competencies obtained during education at STIE Ganesha and success in developing businesses or startups by students. With a focus on twenty students who are active entrepreneurs, this research uses a qualitative approach to collect and analyze data. Through in-depth interviews and content analysis of business communications carried out, this research identifies how communication skills such as negotiation, presentation, and interpersonal communication contribute to their entrepreneurial success. The research results show that students with higher business communication competencies tend to experience greater success in their entrepreneurial activities. These findings imply the importance of integrating effective business communication training in higher education curricula, especially for students interested in entrepreneurship. It is hoped that further implications of this research will provide insight to educational institutions to develop communication training modules that are more effective and relevant to the needs of the job market.

The objective of this study is to examine and chart research subjects and puspose future research directions concerning the creative performance of accounting students. This analysis also enables scholars to identify new keywords for upcoming research areas. This literature review utilizes bibliometric analysis to examine 136 articles on creative performance in accounting students, employing the VOSviewer analysis tool version 1.6.19. the articles were sourced from ithe Scopus database accessed via Harzing’s Publish or Perish software between 2019 – 2023. The findings of this study reveal that growth of global sciientific publications on creative performance in accounting students has shown fluctuations annually. Furthermore, researches have identified new kywords that have not been extensively explored in the early to mid-2023, specifically “emotional intelligence”, “locus of control”, “self efficacy”, “interpersonal communication”, and “critical thinking”. It is anticipated that this research will provide valueable insights for further studies related to the creative performance of accounting students.

This qualitative study delves into the pivotal role of emotional intelligence (EI) in enhancing leadership effectiveness. Through in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, the research investigates how leaders' emotional intelligence influences their ability to navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, inspire teams, and drive organizational success. Findings underscore the significance of EI competencies such as self-awareness, empathy, and relationship management in shaping leaders' decision-making processes and fostering a positive work environment. Moreover, the study reveals the nuanced ways in which emotionally intelligent leaders adapt their communication styles and cultivate trust and collaboration within their teams. By illuminating the intricate interplay between emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness, this research offers valuable insights for organizations seeking to develop and nurture emotionally intelligent leaders capable of meeting the demands of today's dynamic workplace environments.

Phubbing behavior, which is the tendency to ignore those around us in favor of attention on social media, has become an increasing concern in the context of social interactions, especially among teenagers. This study aims to explore the impact of phubbing behavior on interpersonal communication among vocational school students. The research method used in this research is pre-experimental design with a one group pretest-posttest research design. The population of this research is SMK in Rembang. The sample taken was 10 students using simple random sampling technique. To overcome this problem, this research proposes the application of group guidance using sociodrama techniques as an alternative intervention. The results of the analysis show that group guidance using sociodrama techniques has a positive influence in improving interpersonal communication between students. The implication of this research is the importance of appropriate interventions in dealing with phubbing behavior among adolescents to improve the quality of interpersonal relationships and their psychological well-being.