TY - CHAP
T1 - Self-disclosure in relationships
T2 - Revealing and concealing information about oneself to others
AU - Finkenauer, Catrin
AU - Kerkhof, Peter
AU - Pronk, Tila
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Concerns with social acceptance and rejection play a central role in virtually all adult relationships. People’s efforts to maintain a desired level of acceptance and to avoid being rejected exert a pervasive influence on their interpersonal behaviors, and indications that others do not adequately value people’s relationships have strong effects on their emotions, behaviors, and self-views. The chapter begins by examining the nature of people’s concerns with acceptance, showing that at the most basic level, people are chronically concerned about their “relational value” in the eyes of those with whom they have—or want to have—relationships. After examining the motivational bases of people’s concerns with relational value, the chapter describes ways in which people maintain their relational value, explores emotional reactions to perceiving that one’s relational value is lower than one desires, examines the effects of low and high relational value on self-esteem, and discusses how people behave when they feel inadequately valued.
AB - Concerns with social acceptance and rejection play a central role in virtually all adult relationships. People’s efforts to maintain a desired level of acceptance and to avoid being rejected exert a pervasive influence on their interpersonal behaviors, and indications that others do not adequately value people’s relationships have strong effects on their emotions, behaviors, and self-views. The chapter begins by examining the nature of people’s concerns with acceptance, showing that at the most basic level, people are chronically concerned about their “relational value” in the eyes of those with whom they have—or want to have—relationships. After examining the motivational bases of people’s concerns with relational value, the chapter describes ways in which people maintain their relational value, explores emotional reactions to perceiving that one’s relational value is lower than one desires, examines the effects of low and high relational value on self-esteem, and discusses how people behave when they feel inadequately valued.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/nl/universitypress/subjects/psychology/social-psychology/cambridge-handbook-personal-relationships-2nd-edition
U2 - 10.1017/9781316417867.022
DO - 10.1017/9781316417867.022
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781107130265
T3 - Cambridge handbooks in psychology
SP - 271
EP - 281
BT - The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
A2 - Vangelisti, Anita
A2 - Perlman, Dan
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge, UK
ER -