Adolescents’ Well-Being with Respect to the Patterns of Disclosure to and Secrecy from Parents and the Best Friend: A Person-Centered Examination

Elsharnouby, Ebra; Dost‐Gözkan, Ayfer

doi:10.1007/s10964-020-01246-6

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“…Corroborating results from other studies, we found that adolescent disclosure was linked to less adolescent emotional problems (Fernandez et al 2018) and delinquency (Kapetanovic et al 2019a) over time, while adolescent secrecy was linked to more emotional and conduct problems (Kapetanovic et al 2020), delinquency (Frijns et al 2010), and poorer wellbeing (Elsharnouby and Dost-Gözkan 2020) over time. In addition, higher levels of adolescent emotional problems predicted less disclosure over time, demonstrating the reciprocal nature of these links.…”

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“…Thus, disclosure and secrecy should also be seen as two separate factors in parent-adolescent communication that uniquely contribute to adolescent psychosocial development (Frijns et al 2010). In addition, adolescent secrecy seems to be related to higher levels of depression (Frijns et al 2010) and delinquency (Jäggi et al 2016) and poorer wellbeing (Elsharnouby and Dost-Gözkan 2020). Moreover, a recent cross-cultural study by Kapetanovic et al (2020) shows that adolescent secrecy, but not disclosure, is reciprocally linked to higher levels of externalizing problems over time.…”

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The Role of the Family’s Emotional Climate in the Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning

Kapetanovic

Skoog

2020

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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The current study was designed to extend the parenting literature by testing the moderating role of the family’s emotional climate, operationalized with parent-adolescent emotional closeness and adolescent feelings of being overly controlled by parents on the longitudinal associations between parent-driven communication efforts (i.e. parental behavioral control and solicitation of information from their adolescent), adolescent-driven communication efforts (i.e. adolescent disclosure and secrecy) and adolescent psychosocial functioning (i.e. emotional problems, conduct problems, delinquency, and wellbeing). We conducted a series of cross-lagged models controlling for adolescent gender and ethnicity using a two-wave Swedish longitudinal set of self-report data (N = 1515, 51% girls, M age = 13.0 and 14.3 years at T1 and T2, respectively). Multi-group analyses revealed that the negative links between T1 parental control and T2 adolescent delinquency, T1 parental solicitation and T2 adolescent conduct problems and delinquency, and T1 emotional problems and T2 adolescent disclosure were moderated by the family’s emotional climate. When the family’s emotional climate was positive, the parenting strategies had a more positive effect on adolescent psychosocial functioning, and adolescents with emotional problems communicated more openly with their parents. These findings suggest that the relational context in the family is an important protective factor and add specificity to the previously established role of parent-adolescent communication in adolescent psychosocial development. In terms of preventive interventions, strategies to enhance the family’s emotional climate should be considered prior to teaching specific parenting strategies.

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The Role of the Family’s Emotional Climate in the Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning

Kapetanovic

Skoog

2020

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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“…Even when someone successfully conceals a secret, they tend to frequently think about the secret, which is associated with lower self-control and personal wellbeing (Lane & Wegner, 1995;. Research on adolescent well-being also addresses the negative effects of keeping secrets from parents and best friends (e.g., Elsharnouby & Dost-Gozkan, 2020;Laird et al, 2013). However, researchers have not investigated similar questions in early childhood, so we have limited insight into how the challenging task of keeping a secret impacts children's physical and psychological well-being.…”

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It takes two (or more): The social nature of secrets

Bedrov

Gable

Liberman

2021

WIRES Cognitive Science

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The lion's share of research on secrecy focuses on how deciding to keep or share a secret impacts a secret-keeper's well-being. However, secrets always involve more than one person: the secret-keeper and those from whom the secret is kept or shared with. Although secrets are inherently social, their consequences for people's reputations and social relationships have been relatively ignored. Secrets serve a variety of social functions, including (1) changing or maintaining one's reputation, (2) conveying social utility, and (3) establishing friendship. For example, if Beth has a secret about a past misdemeanor, she might not tell any of her friends in order to maintain her reputation as an outstanding citizen. If Beth does share this secret with her friend Amy, Amy could interpret this as a sign of trust and think that their friendship is special. However, Amy could also choose to share Beth's secret with the rest of the friend group to show that she is a useful member with access to valuable information about others. Attention to these social functions of secrets emerges from a young age, and secrets play a prominent role in human relationships throughout the lifespan. After providing an overview of what is currently known about the relational consequences of secrecy in childhood and adulthood, we discuss how social and developmental psychologists could work together to broaden our understanding of the sociality of secrets. Future steps include incorporating more dyadic and social network analyses into research on secrets and looking at similar questions across ages.

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“…Laird et al (2013) found that, among adolescent girls, the positive association between keeping secrets from friends and depression was moderated by friendship quality and the extent to which girls also kept secrets from their parents. Similarly, adolescent well‐being is highest when the frequency of keeping secrets from parents is lower than the frequency of keeping secrets from friends (Elsharnouby & Dost‐Gozkan, 2020). Even when people keep a secret on someone else's behalf, the extent to which the secret increases feelings of burden rather than intimacy depends on how much the two people's social networks overlap (Slepian & Greenaway, 2018).…”

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What you don't know might hurt me: Keeping secrets in interpersonal relationships

Bedrov

Leary

2021

Personal Relationships

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Despite being an inherently interpersonal phenomenon, secrecy has rarely been studied within specific relationships. This study examines how the secret‐keeper's relationship with the target relates to concealment among undergraduates (n = 292) and MTurk workers (n = 249). Participants rated keeping a personal secret as more detrimental to well‐being when it involved greater concealment difficulty, rumination, and negative affect. For MTurk workers, this burden was compounded when the information was directly relevant to the target. Across both samples, participants in higher quality relationships kept their secrets to avoid shame or relationship damage and perceived less distance from the target. These results demonstrate that the motivations for and consequences of keeping secrets vary with the specific relationships in which they are kept.

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Adolescents’ Well-Being with Respect to the Patterns of Disclosure to and Secrecy from Parents and the Best Friend: A Person-Centered Examination

Cited by 33 publications

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The Role of the Family’s Emotional Climate in the Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning

The Role of the Family’s Emotional Climate in the Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning

It takes two (or more): The social nature of secrets

What you don't know might hurt me: Keeping secrets in interpersonal relationships

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