Self-disclosure
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- Reveals our feelings, attitudes, beliefs, memories, etc., to our partner so they understand us better.
- Self-disclosure
- Social Penetration Theory
- Self-disclosure reveals one’s inner self and displays trust in the other person
- So romantic partners ‘penetrate’ into each other’s lives more deeply.
- Altman and Taylor 1973
- How relationships develop
- Self-disclosure reveals one’s inner self and displays trust in the other person
- Breadth and Depth over time
- Disclosures at the start of a relationship are many (breadth) but superficial (outer layers of an onion).
- As a relationship develops we remove more layers, revealing more ‘high risk’ information about ourselves on a wider range of topics.
- Breadth of disclosure is narrow because many topics are 'off limits' in the early stages of a relationships.
- Used the term depenetration to describe how dissatisfied partners self-disclose less as they gradually disengage from the relationship.
- Reciprocity of self-disclosure
- Reis and Shaver 1988
- Self-disclosure by one partner encourages the other to reveal information about themselves, deepening the relationship between them.
- There is a balance of self-disclosure between both partners in a successful relationship
- Social Penetration Theory
- Self-disclosure
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