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As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, it remains one of the
most pressing health issues of our time. Many aspects of the
disease remain under-researched and inadequate attention has been
given to the implications for the relationships and daily lives of
those affected by HIV. Disclosing an HIV diagnosis remains a
decision process fraught with difficulty and despite encouraging
medical advances, an HIV diagnosis creates significant anxiety and
distress about one's health, self-identity, and close
relationships. This book provides an overarching view of existing
research on privacy and disclosure while bringing together two
significant areas: self-disclosure as a communication process and
the social/relational consequences of HIV/AIDS. The unifying
framework is communication privacy management and the focus of this
volume is on private voluntary relational disclosure as opposed to
forced or public disclosure. Utilizing numerous interviews with HIV
patients and their families, the authors examine disclosure in a
variety of social contexts, including relationships with intimate
partners, families, friends, health workers, and coworkers. Of note
are the examinations of predictors of willingness to disclose HIV
infection, the message features of disclosure, and the consequences
of both disclosure and non-disclosure. This volume, with its
personal exercises and sources of additional information, offers an
invaluable resource for individuals living with HIV and their
significant others, as well as for professionals in the fields of
health communication, social and health psychology, family therapy,
clinical and counseling psychology, relationship research,
infectious disease, and social service.
This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue
a greater understanding of how people are both public and private
in their interactions. To be social yet autonomous, known yet
unknown, independent yet dependent on others is essential to the
communicative world. How do people manage these seemingly
incongruous goals? This book argues that they actively work at
balancing simultaneous needs of being both public and private. It
highlights many different ways that people balance their public
needs with their privacy needs underscoring the multidimensional
nature of balance. The chapters also show that the opposing needs
occur within a variety of contexts, from health issues, such as
HIV/AIDS, to television talk shows. Readers will discover that
avoiding disclosure is a dominant theme. In this way, the authors
demonstrate how people balance privacy and secrecy by deemphasizing
openness. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a refreshing new
look at age-old concerns.
This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue
a greater understanding of how people are both public and private
in their interactions. To be social yet autonomous, known yet
unknown, independent yet dependent on others is essential to the
communicative world. How do people manage these seemingly
incongruous goals? This book argues that they actively work at
balancing simultaneous needs of being both public and private. It
highlights many different ways that people balance their public
needs with their privacy needs underscoring the multidimensional
nature of balance. The chapters also show that the opposing needs
occur within a variety of contexts, from health issues, such as
HIV/AIDS, to television talk shows. Readers will discover that
avoiding disclosure is a dominant theme. In this way, the authors
demonstrate how people balance privacy and secrecy by deemphasizing
openness. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a refreshing new
look at age-old concerns.
Offering a practical theory for why people make decisions about
revealing and concealing private information. Boundaries of Privacy
taps into everyday problems in our personal relationships, our
health concerns, and our work to investigate the way we manage our
private lives. Petronio argues that in addition to owning our own
private information, we also take on the responsibility of guarding
other people's private information when it is put into our trust.
This can often lead to betrayal, errors in judgment, deception,
gossip, and privacy dilemmas. Petronio's book serves as a guide to
understanding why certain decisions about privacy succeed while
others fail.
As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, it remains one of the
most pressing health issues of our time. Many aspects of the
disease remain under-researched and inadequate attention has been
given to the implications for the relationships and daily lives of
those affected by HIV. Disclosing an HIV diagnosis remains a
decision process fraught with difficulty and despite encouraging
medical advances, an HIV diagnosis creates significant anxiety and
distress about one's health, self-identity, and close
relationships. This book provides an overarching view of existing
research on privacy and disclosure while bringing together two
significant areas: self-disclosure as a communication process and
the social/relational consequences of HIV/AIDS. The unifying
framework is communication privacy management and the focus of this
volume is on private voluntary relational disclosure as opposed to
forced or public disclosure. Utilizing numerous interviews with HIV
patients and their families, the authors examine disclosure in a
variety of social contexts, including relationships with intimate
partners, families, friends, health workers, and coworkers. Of note
are the examinations of predictors of willingness to disclose HIV
infection, the message features of disclosure, and the consequences
of both disclosure and non-disclosure. This volume, with its
personal exercises and sources of additional information, offers an
invaluable resource for individuals living with HIV and their
significant others, as well as for professionals in the fields of
health communication, social and health psychology, family therapy,
clinical and counseling psychology, relationship research,
infectious disease, and social service.
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Self-Disclosure (Paperback)
Valerian J. Derlega, Sandra M Metts, Sandra Petronio, Stephen T. Margulis
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R2,534
Discovery Miles 25 340
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Although self-disclosure is not equivalent to and does not define the level of intimacy in a relationship, it is a major factor in the relationship's development, maintenance, and deterioration. Conversely, the level of closeness between relationship partners (whether the individuals are acquaintances, friends, lovers, or relatives) affects the meaning and impact of disclosure. Compelling and informative, Self-Disclosure focuses on the role of self-disclosure in close relationships and illustrates how individuals negotiate with their relationship partners--what, when, where, and how they communicate personal feelings and thoughts. The authors examine how close relationships and self-disclosure are mutually transformative; where self-disclosure and relationships mutually interact to affect one another; how subcultural differences between males and females influence self-disclosure in relationships; how the vulnerability and risk associated with disclosing personal information leads relationship partners to be concerned about privacy regulation; and how stress-reducing disclosure, associated with the willingness to talk about stressful events, provides both a means of coping with unpleasant life events and access to social support. With sensitive coverage of the major themes of self-disclosure, this volume is ideally suited for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in close relationships, interpersonal communication, social psychology, gender studies, family studies, counseling and clinical psychology, social work, and sociology. "For someone looking for a good review of the literature on self-disclosure and close relationships, this book fits the bill, providing a quick and easy way to sort through theory....for the researcher, the authors provide questionnaire materials in most chapters to illustrate how data might be collected." --Families in Society
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