Self-Disclosure in Dating Couples: Sex Roles and the Ethic of Openness

Rubin, Zick; Hill, Charles T.; Peplau, Letitia Anne; Dunkel-Schetter, Christine

doi:10.2307/351228

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“…Women place greater emphasis on talking and sharing emotions, whereas men tend to focus on shared activities. In terms of romantic relationships, women and men do not differ in how much they are willing to reveal to one another, but they do differ in the types of things they reveal (Rubin, Hill, Peplau & Dunkel-Schetter, 1980). These differences in the way men and women perceive and experience relationships were borne out in the present study.…”

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Relationship Formation on the Internet: What’s the Big Attraction?

McKenna

Green

Gleason

2002

Journal of Social Issues

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We hypothesized that people who can better disclose their "true" or inner self to others on the Internet than in face-to-face settings will be more likely to form close relationships on-line and will tend to bring those virtual relationships into their "real" lives. Study 1, a survey of randomly selected Internet newsgroup posters, showed that those who better express their true self over the Internet were more likely than others to have formed close on-line relationships and moved these friendships to a face-to-face basis. Study 2 revealed that the majority of these close Internet relationships were still intact 2 years later. Finally, a laboratory experiment found that undergraduates liked each other more following an Internet compared to a face-to-face initial meeting.

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Section: Creation Of Indicesmentioning

confidence: 60%

Relationship Formation on the Internet: What’s the Big Attraction?

McKenna

Green

Gleason

2002

Journal of Social Issues

1,127

745

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“…Previous research has shown that people with highly relational self-construals are more open and disclosing than are lows on this dimension (Cross et al, 2000;Gore et al, 2006). Although there is relatively little research on power and self-disclosure, some evidence suggests that power in a relationship is inversely related to self-disclosure (Rubin, Hill, Peplau, & Dunckel-Schetter, 1980 (Murstein & Adler, 1995). Most often, existing studies have examined power in dating or marriage relationships; to our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate the roles of power and self-disclosure in new involuntary, same-sex relationships.…”

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confidence: 94%

Predicting Commitment in New Relationships: Interactive Effects of Relational Self-construal and Power

Terzino

Cross

2009

Self and Identity

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Previous research has demonstrated that individuals with highly relational selfconstruals define the self in terms of close relationships and tend to behave in ways that enhance the development and maintenance of important relationships (Cross, Morris, & Gore, 2002). Other research suggests that having power in a situation allows one to pursue important goals, which we hypothesize may also include relationship goals. We examined how relational self-construal and power interacted with self-disclosure and forgiveness to predict commitment in new college roommate relationships over the course of a semester. Analyses revealed that self-disclosure and forgiveness were strong predictors of commitment and change in commitment. Furthermore, relational self-construal and power moderated the association of selfdisclosure and forgiveness with commitment.

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“…Aside from the research on marital conflict, this point is illustrated by studies of self disclosure. Although males have frequently been described as the inexpressive sex, studies have observed little difference between the level of self disclosure by males and females in mixed-sex friendships (Hacker, 1981;Rubin, Hill, Peplau & Dunkel-Schelter, 1980), presumably because of the strong reciprocity norm for self-disclosure in these relationships.…”

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A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication

Burggraf

Sillars

1987

Communication Monographs

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Despite the persistence of sex-typed images of the expressivity of wife and husband, past observational studies have given little indication of sex-linked differences in marital communication. Thus, we proposed that inter personally negotiated role expectations would be a better predictor of communication about marital conflict than sex. However, we also proposed that there might be sex differences within particular clusters of couples who endorse sex-differentiated role expectations. Couples were classified into groups using Fitzpatrick's (1983) typology. The results of two studies indicated that couple type was significantly related to communication about marital conflict; however, there were neither any clear overall sex differences in communication nor sex differences within couple types. Rather, the results indicated that conflict styles are so strongly reciprocal that mutual influence within conversations tends to remove individual speaker differences. The research suggests that mutual influence processes and mutually established beliefs and expectations account for conflict styles more adequately than biological sex.

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Self-Disclosure in Dating Couples: Sex Roles and the Ethic of Openness

Cited by 170 publications

References 13 publications

Relationship Formation on the Internet: What’s the Big Attraction?

Relationship Formation on the Internet: What’s the Big Attraction?

Predicting Commitment in New Relationships: Interactive Effects of Relational Self-construal and Power

A critical examination of sex differences in marital communication

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