Self-Disclosure

A review of the analog literature about therapist self-disclosure suggests that nonclients generally have positive perceptions of therapist self-disclosures. A review of the naturalistic psychotherapy literature indicates that therapist self-disclosure occurs infrequently, is used more often by humanistic-experiential than psychoanalytic therapists, is most often about professional background than about intimate personal details, is used for many different reasons, is used cautiously by therapists, and is helpful in the immediate process of therapy. Effects of therapist self-disclosure on the ultimate outcome of therapy are less clear. Limitations of the research (poor and inconsistent definitions and lack of a clinically appropriate methodology for studying self-disclosure) and guidelines for therapeutic practice are presented

The Effects of Private Self-Consciousness and Perspective Taking on Satisfaction in Close Relationships.

131 heterosexual student couples, aged 17–32 yrs, 30 of whom were married or engaged answered questions concerning themselves and their relationships. It was predicted that individual differences in private self-consciousness would be positively related to relationship satisfaction because of the greater self-disclosure resulting from that heightened self-attention. It was further predicted that individual differences in perspective taking would foster relationship satisfaction, independent of any influence of self-disclosure. Both expectations were confirmed. Scores on the private self-consciousness scale were predictive of reported self-disclosure, and self-disclosure was predictive of satisfaction in the relationship. Once the influence of self-disclosure was removed, no effect of self-consciousness on satisfaction remained. In contrast, after disclosure was controlled, perspective-taking scores were significantly related to satisfaction and were in fact unrelated to disclosure at all. Findings indicate that 2 personality characteristics having to do with habitual attention to behavioral tendencies, emotions, and motivations significantly enhance the quality of close heterosexual relationships in different ways

Couldn't or Wouldn't? the Influence of Privacy Concerns and Self-Efficacy in Privacy Management on Privacy Protection

Sampling 515 college students, this study investigates how privacy protection, including profile visibility, self-disclosure, and friending, are influenced by privacy concerns and efficacy regarding one's own ability to manage privacy settings, a factor that researchers have yet to give a great deal of attention to in the context of social networking sites (SNSs). The results of this study indicate an inconsistency in adopting strategies to protect privacy, a disconnect from limiting profile visibility and friending to self-disclosure. More specifically, privacy concerns lead SNS users to limit their profile visibility and discourage them from expanding their network. However, they do not constrain self-disclosure. Similarly, while self-efficacy in privacy management encourages SNS users to limit their profile visibility, it facilitates self-disclosure. This suggests that if users are limiting their profile visibility and constraining their friending behaviors, it does not necessarily mean they will reduce self-disclosure on SNSs because these behaviors are predicted by different factors. In addition, the study finds an interaction effect between privacy concerns and self-efficacy in privacy management on friending. It points to the potential problem of increased risk-taking behaviors resulting from high self-efficacy in privacy management and low privacy concerns.Radio-Television-Fil

Adolescent Loneliness, Self-Disclosure, and Private Self-Consciousness: A Longitudinal Investigation

Examined the causal relations that exist among loneliness, self-disclosure, and private self-consciousness, building on an earlier study by S. L. Franzoi and M. H. Davis (see record 1985-19892-001). Using structural equation techniques and a longitudinal design, a theoretical model that links these variables was tested with 332 high school students. Results indicate a good fit between the theoretical model and the observed relations. Evidence concerning 2 alternative interpretations of the original Franzoi and Davis study is provided. First, the original hypothesis that private self-consciousness leads to greater self-disclosure to peers is supported, but no support for the alternative view that such disclosure in turn increases private self-consciousness is provided. Second, the original hypothesis that greater self-disclosure reduces loneliness and the alternative view that greater loneliness reduces self-disclosure receive some support from the data. The difficulty in obtaining significant longitudinal paths (from Year 1 to Year 2) suggests that the time lags in the variables\u27 effects on one another are relatively short

Adolescent Self-Disclosure and Loneliness: Private Self-Consciousness and Parental Influences

Using structural equation techniques, we tested a theoretical model designed to describe the causal relations existing among loneliness, self-disclosure to peers and parents, and specific antecedent variables. Participants were 350 high-school students who answered questions concerning themselves and their interpersonal relationships. Results generally indicated a good fit between the theoretical model and the observed relations. In addition to replicating the findings of previous studies concerning the relation between self-disclosure and loneliness, results also indicated an indirect relation between private self-consciousness and loneliness via peer self-disclosure; that is, high private self-conscious adolescents\u27 greater willingness to self-disclose to peers resulted in their feeling less lonely. Results are discussed in terms of current theory in related fields

Influence of observation of true stuttering and self-disclosure on college professors' perception of students who stutter

textResearch has demonstrated that college professors rate hypothetical students who stutter more negatively than college students who do not stutter. To date, no studies have explored perceptions when observing actual students who stutter. Furthermore, self-disclosure has been proven to influence listener perception. The primary purpose of the present study is to investigate the role self-disclosure has on the perception of college professors.Communication Sciences and Disorder

How motivations of SNSs use and offline social trust affect college students' self-disclosure on SNSs: An investigation in China

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have been proliferating and growing in popularity worldwide throughout the past few years, which have received significant interest from researchers. Previous literatures on Internet suggest that offline social trust influences online perceptions and behaviors, and there is linkage between trust and self-disclosure in face-to-face context. Adopting the Uses and Gratifications perspective as the theoretical foundation, this exploratory study aimed to address the roles that motivations of SNSs use and offline social trust play in predicting levels of self-disclosure on SNSs. Taking 640 snowballing sampling on Renren.com, the study found that there was an instrumental orientation of SNSs use among China's college students. Social interaction, self-image building and information seeking were three major motivations when college students use SNSs. As expected, the results also indicated that motivations of SNS use and offline social trust play a more important role in predicting self-disclosure on SNSs than demographics. This exploratory study gives an empirical insight in the influence of motivations of SNSs use and offline social trust on self-disclosure online. --Social Networking Sites,Motivations,Self-disclosure,Offline Social Trust

Development and Maintenance of Self-Disclosure on Facebook: The Role of Personality Traits

This study explored the relationships between Facebook self-disclosure and personality traits in a sample of Italian users. The aim was to analyze the predictive role of Big Five personality traits on different parameters of breadth and depth of selfdisclosed behaviors online. Facebook users, aged between 18 and 64 years of age (Mage = 25.3 years, SD = 6.8; N = 958), of which 51% were female, voluntarily completed an online survey assessing personality traits and Facebook self-disclosure. Results at a series of hierarchical regression analyses significantly corroborated the hypotheses that high extroverted and openness people tend to disclose on Facebook a significant amount of personal information, whereas high consciousness and agreeableness users are less inclined to do it. Furthermore, more extroverts and agreeableness people develop less intimacy on Facebook, differently from those with high levels of openness. Results also corroborated the hypothesis of a full mediation of time usage in the relationship between personality factors such as extroversion and conscientiousness with breadth of Facebook self-disclosure. Overall, according to the findings of the current study, personality traits and Facebook self-disclosure become central both as predictive variables for depicting the different profiles of potential addicted and as variables to help educators, teachers, and clinicians to develop training or therapeutic programs aimed at preventing the risk of Internet addiction. Limitations of the study are discussed, and directions for future research are suggested

PROFIL SELF DISCLOSURE PESERTA DIDIK DAN IMPLIKASINYA TERHADAP BIMBINGAN PRIBADI SOSIAL

Penelitian dilatarbelakangi oleh pentingnya self disclosure pada remaja terutama bagi peserta didik SMP. Self disclosure merupakan salah satu keterampilan komunikasi interpersonal dan kompetensi interpersonal yang sangat berguna dalam berinteraksi sosial dan menjalin hubungan interpersonal. Penelitian bertujuan memperoleh gambaran umum self disclosure peserta didik Kelas VIII SMP Negeri 1 Lembang dan mendeskripsikan perbedaan self disclosure peserta didik berdasarkan jenis kelamin. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan secara acak (random sampling). Sampel penelitian adalah peserta didik kelas VIII SMP Negeri 1 Lembang tahun ajaran 2014/2015 yang berjumlah 182 peserta didik dari 384 peserta didik. Temuan penelitian menunjukkan secara umum self disclosure peserta didik berada pada kategori tinggi dan terdapat perbedaan self disclosure antara peserta didik laki-laki dan perempuan dengan kecenderungan berada pada kategori tinggi. Temuan penelitian dijadikan dasar untuk menyusun rancangan layanan bimbingan kelompok untuk meningkatkan self disclosure peserta didik kelas VIII SMP Negeri 1 Lembang. Kata kunci: self disclosure, peserta didik, jenis kelamin. The background of this research is the importance of self-disclosure for adolescents, especially junior high school students. Self-disclosure is one of the interpersonal communication skills and interpersonal competence which is very useful in social interaction and interpersonal relationships. The research aims to obtain an overview of SMP Negeri 1 Lembang eighth graders’ self-disclosure and describe students’ self-disclosure differences in terms of sex. The approach used in this research is quantitative approach with descriptive methods. The sampling technique used is random sampling. The samples are 182 students out of 384 who are the eight graders of SMP Negeri 1 Lembang in 2014/2015 academic year. The results show that in general, students’ self-disclosure is at high category and there are self-disclosure differences between male and female learners which tend to be in the high category. The implication is to arrange the guidance services to improve SMP Negeri 1 Lembang eighth graders’ self-disclosure. Keywords: self disclosure, students, sex

Self Disclosure Ibu Hamil Di Luar Nikah Kepada Anaknya

Hamil di luar nikah dianggap memalukan secara sosial budaya di dalam kelompok-kelompok masyarakat di Indonesia. Sehingga sulit bagi ibu yang hamil di luar nikah untuk mengungkapkan dirinya. Dalam hal ini terdapat dilematis dalam melakukan self disclosure, di satu sisi sangat penting bagi ibu untuk melakukan self disclosure. Namun di sisi lain ada beberapa resiko yang akan dihadapi oleh orangtua saat melakukan self disclosure hamil di luar nikah. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui pemaknaan self disclosure ibu yang hamil di luar nikah kepada anaknya. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan fenomenologi, peneliti mendapatkan 3 esensi self disclosure ibu hamil di luar nikah. Pertama alasan ibu melakukan self disclosure yang dipengaruhi oleh budaya, pengalaman traumatis, usia, dan kejujuran. Kedua, proses ibu melakukan self disclosure dimulai dari klise, fakta, opini, hingga perasaan. Ketiga, dampak setelah melakukan self disclosure adalah kedalaman hubungan ibu dan anak