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The Confidant's Role in Managing Private Disclosures: An Analysis Using Communication Privacy Management Theory

Basel, Sara Roxanne, Basel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543421181808766

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2018, PHD, Kent State University, College of Communication and Information / School of Communication Studies.
Approximately one in five adults in the United States have experienced a mental illness (National Institute of Mental Health, Mental Illness, 2017), however, only a fraction of those people receives any type of support. For family and friends to be able to offer support they must be told about the mental illness, therefore, they become confidants. In this paper, the role of the confidant was studied using communication privacy management theory (CPM). The variables studied include empathy, stigma, confidant types, boundary rule coordination, rule fidelity, and boundary turbulence. Findings from this study indicate that when confidants have high personal stigma, they are more likely to be an uncomfortable reluctant confidant and they are more likely to break the privacy rules. Another important finding from this study was that when the privacy rules were explicitly discussed, people are still likely to break them. Finally, when the rules are broken, disclosers and confidants will typically experience boundary turbulence. When selecting a confidant, disclosers need to find people who are highly empathic; disclosers need to avoid people with high personal stigma.
Nichole Egbert, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Jeffrey Child, Ph.D. (Advisor)
148 p.
Communication
Communication privacy management theory; confidant; rule fidelity; boundary rule coordination; boundary turbulence; empathy; stigma

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  • Basel, Basel, S. R. (2018). The Confidant's Role in Managing Private Disclosures: An Analysis Using Communication Privacy Management Theory [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543421181808766

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Basel, Basel, Sara. The Confidant's Role in Managing Private Disclosures: An Analysis Using Communication Privacy Management Theory. 2018. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543421181808766.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Basel, Basel, Sara. "The Confidant's Role in Managing Private Disclosures: An Analysis Using Communication Privacy Management Theory." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543421181808766

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