Perceptions Of Self-disclosure Research Articles

Feature: “Be careful of what you’re holding with students’ hearts”: Native American Community College Students’ Perceptions of Self-Disclosure in Writing Assignments

This critical phenomenological study sought Native American student perspectives on intention and desired faculty response following self-disclosure of personal challenges in college writing assignments and discusses implications for faculty and for implementing trauma-informed writing pedagogy with students who are historically marginalized.

ELT formation course program and pre-service teachers’ perceptions of self-disclosure

Teacher self-disclosure, simply defined, is the intuitive understanding of private feelings, thoughts or experiences between interlocutors. It is revealing information about yourself to others. This revealing is believed crucial in developing a fully intimate relationship between teachers and students which might give cause for students’ engagement, class participation and might boost their foreign language learning. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to investigate the perception of appropriateness of teacher self-disclosure of the pre-service language teachers in Turkish context and to compare whether there is a significant difference between teachers’ beliefs who attended a pedagogical formation course program and who did not. The data was collected from 140 ELL junior students and 77 pedagogical formation course students at a Turkish university through the appropriateness of teacher self-disclosure scale. Compared to the related studies for the appropriateness of pre-service teachers’ perceptions of self-disclosure, the study presents some important similarities but also differences in terms of the topics used in the questionnaire.

The Effects of Cultural Self-Construal and Self-Disclosure on Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction in SNS

The purpose of the research was to determine the effects of cultural self-construal of users in social networking sites (SNS) on the way they perceive self-disclosing activities, attach to brand community, and satisfy with brand relationship. With the growth of social media, it has brought diverse users from different countries in a single platform enabling people from divergent cultures to communicate and be influenced by each other shaping unique self-construal. Hence, we used newly developed cultural self-construal as an antecedent of self-disclosure. Data were collected from 460 female adults. The results showed that the perceptions of self-disclosure are the key antecedents of relationship advancement, which are differently influenced by cultural self-construal. The way users perceive self-disclosing activities positively influenced brand community attachment, and subsequently brand relationship satisfaction. The results provided valuable insights for practitioners by presenting the importance of using brand community in SNS as a long-term branding channel.

When in doubt, sit quietly: A qualitative investigation of experienced therapists' perceptions of self-disclosure.

Using consensual qualitative research (CQR), we analyzed 13 interviews of experienced psychotherapists about general intentions for therapist self-disclosure (TSD), experiences with successful TSDs, experiences with unsuccessful TSDs, and instances of unmanifested urges to disclose. For TSD generally (i.e., not about a specific instance), typical intentions were to facilitate exploration and build and maintain the therapeutic relationship. Therapists typically reported becoming more comfortable using TSD over time. In successful TSDs, the typical content was accurate, relevant similarities between therapist and client; typical consequences were positive. In unsuccessful TSDs, the typical antecedent was countertransference reactions; the typical intention was to provide support; typical content involved therapists mistakenly perceiving similarities with clients; and the general consequences were negative. In instances when therapists repressed the urge to disclose, the typical antecedent was countertransference and the content typically seemed relevant to the client's issues. We conclude that effective use of TSD requires general attunement to the client's dynamics, attunement to the client's readiness in the moment, ability to manage countertransference, and ability to use a specific TSD appropriately. Implications for practice, training, and research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

Perceptions of self-disclosure as a function of gender-linked variables

One hundred and sixty raters with either an androgynous, masculine, or feminine sex role orientation judged the intimacy and commonness of masculine and feminine self-disclosures attributed to either men or women speakers. Feminine disclosures were rated as significantly more intimate and more common than masculine disclosures. Masculine disclosures made by women were rated as significantly less common than either feminine disclosures by women, or masculine or feminine disclosures by men. Although rater sex role orientation had no significant effects, physical gender did. Female raters judged all disclosures as more intimate than male raters. Implications for future research are discussed.

Perceptions of Self-Disclosure in Initial Interaction A Japanese Sample

As an example of “culture-specific” communication research, the present study investigated “self-disclosure” during initial interaction within Japanese culture. Presented with a simulated conversation containing varying levels of self-disclosure, a total of 192 Japanese males and females filled out several scale items measuring episode perception, social attractiveness and communication competence of the discloser, and strength of logical force. While respondents generally rated a low level of self-disclosure positively, the results also indicated a significant dialogue-by-sex interaction effect on the episode and person perception variables. With regard to logical force, the results showed that the strength of prefigurative force varied little, except for cultural archetype-act linkage, whereas practical force differed as a function of self-disclosure level. Implications of these findings are further discussed within the context of Japanese culture.

THE APPROPRIATENESS OF SITUATIONAL DISCLOSURES AND THE PERCEPTIONS OF INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION AND ADJUSTMENT

As an elaboration of the concept of self-disclosure, self-disclosure flexibility, defined as the modulation of disclosure in accordance with target and setting conditions, has been related to greater social perceptiveness and generally successful interpersonal functioning. The present study investigated the manner in which the appropriateness of self-disclosure relates to the concept of disclosure flexibility. Subjects rated contrived protocols which varied disclosure appropriateness with respect to target and setting conditions. Significant main effects for target and setting dis closure appropriateness for both adjustment and attraction variables were observed. Results are interpreted as indicating that differential perceptions of self-disclosure are largely contingent on the appropriateness of the disclosure and not the flexibility per se. Implications of the study are discussed in terms of the current method of assessing self-disclosure flexibility.

Perceptions of self-disclosers: Effects of sex and physical attractiveness1

Five experiments were conducted to study perceptions of self-disclosure by attractive and unattractive males and females. Results showed that highly disclosing females were preferred over females with medium or low self-disclosure when their self-disclosure was about a parental suicide or about sexual attitudes. Highly disclosing females were evaluated less favorably than females with medium self-disclosure when their self-disclosure was about aggressive feelings of competitiveness. Highly disclosing males were evaluated less favorably than males with medium and low self-disclosure on all disclosure topics. Disclosers with high physical attractiveness were evaluated more favorably than disclosers with low physical attractiveness, but there was considerable variation among subject populations.

Individual differences affecting interviewee expectancies and perceptions of self-disclosure.

Individual differences affecting interviewee expectancies and perceptions of self-disclosure.