SPCOM204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Personal Boundaries, Identity Management
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Self-disclosure - purposefully providing information to others that they would not learn if you did not otherwise tell them. Social penetration model - mode of self-disclosure and rational development that reflects both depth and breath of shared information. Self-awareness - a person"s conscious understanding of who they are. Johari window model - model of self-disclosure that reflects movement of information about self from blind and unknown quadrants to hidden and open ones. Communication privacy management theory - suggests we each manage our own degree of privacy by means of personal boundaries and rules for sharing information. Dyadic effect - the reciprocal nature of self-disclosure; you disclose to me, and i"ll disclose to you. Context-sensitive communication - adaptive to the particular relationship and cultural/personal preferences of the participants. Validates silence, sympathetic/metabolic movies, and relatable talk. Largest component is "not all relationships need to be close/intimate to be fulfilling" realization.