Relationships: FAA - Self Disclosure Flashcards

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Self-disclosure

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Revealing personal information to another person

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Who came up with social penetration theory?

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Altman and Taylor

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What is STP?

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How relationships develop through gradual process of revealing inner self to someone and giving away deep thoughts/feelings

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Characteristics of STP

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Gradual process

Revealing personal info = sign Of trust means relationship stronger

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What must a partner do in STP?

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Reciprocate revealing personal info

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What does reciprocating imply?

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Partner willing to reveal personal info indicates relationship has reached certain developmental stage

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More disclosure means?

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Deeper penetration into each other’s lives

Greater understanding of each other is gained

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What is key according to STP?

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Breadth and depth of self-disclosure

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Onion analogy - start

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Start of relationship:
breadth is narrow
Information overload may be off-putting

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Onion analogy - development

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Depth increases

more likely to reveal intimate information inc secrets/painful memories

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What happens as both depth and breadth increase?

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Romantic partners become more committed to one another

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12
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What is revealed early on in a relationship?

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Low risk information

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What is revealed as the relationship progresses?

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High risk information

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Reid and Shaver

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Argue there must be reciprocity in addition to broadening and deepening to self disclose
Key idea: must be balance of self disclosure from both partners in successful relationship

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A03 STP support: Sprecher and Hendrick procedure

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Studied heterosexual dating couples

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A03 STP support: Sprecher and Hendrick findings

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Strong positive correlations between several measures of relationship satisfaction and self-disclosure (both theirs and their partners)

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A03 STP support: Sprecher and Hendrick suggests

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Men and women who use self disclosure and those who believe their partners also disclosed, were more satisfied with, and committed to, their romantic relationship

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A03: Criticism of Sprecher and Hendrick

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Support comes in the form of correlational evidence, causal conclusions can’t be made

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A03: STP doesn’t apply to all cultures

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Tang et al (2013)

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A03 Tang et al: Procedure

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Reviewed findings on sexual self disclosure

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A03 Tang et al findings

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Concluded men and women in US (individualist culture) self disclose significantly more sexual thoughts and feelings than men and women in China (collectivist culture).

Although self-disclosure was still linked to satisfaction in both cultures, the pattern of self-disclosure is different

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A03 Tang et al suggests

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STP Is a limited explanation of romantic relationships which is not necessarily generalisable to other cultures

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A03 criticism

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Self disclosure ignores physical attractiveness and filter theory as factors affecting physical attraction

E.g PA has halo effect by Palmer and Peterson, another aspect
Matters bc SD is incomplete theory