Self Disclosure Flashcards

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Outline- self disclosure

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Self disclosure is revealing information about yourself to a partner.

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Outline- social penetration theory

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Altman and Taylor (1973)

  • the gradual process of revealing your inner self to someone
  • romantic partners have a reciprocal exchange of information as when one person reveals, so does the other. (Shows trust)
  • if allows partners to penetrate deeper and know the person better.
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Outline- breath and depth of self disclosure

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  • The model is like an onion, with ‘safe’ info to reveal on the outer layer, and as we get closer in information becomes much more secret and revealing.
  • it’s important not to reveal too much too soon (we want minimal breath and depth at first) as that could scare off the partner/ too much information.
  • eventually we can be prepared to reveal intimate high risk information as trust has grown.
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Outline- Reciprocity of self-disclosure.

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Reis and shaver (1988)

  • aswell as developing breath and depth, there must be reciprocity of this information.
  • once you reveal something, hopefully your partner will respond in a way that’s rewarding, with understanding and empathy, as well as their own piece of information.
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Evaluation- support

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Sprecher and Hendrick (2004)

  • studied heterosexual couples and found a strong correlation between measures of satisfaction and self disclosure.
  • so- so self-disclosure makes people in relationships more satisfied and were more committed to their relationship.
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Evaluation- cultural differences.

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-increasing breath and depth being beneficial is not true for all cultures.
Tang et al (2013)
-saw that men and women in the US self-disclose much more sexual thought and feelings than in China.
-both methods of self-disclosure are linked to relationship satisfaction in those cultures.
So- self disclosure is therefore a limited explanation.

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