ANXIETY AND SELF-DISCLOSURE - TOWARD A MOTIVATIONAL MODEL
ANXIETY AND SELF-DISCLOSURE - TOWARD A MOTIVATIONAL MODEL
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.64.6.1000
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发表时间:
1993-06-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
ALDEN, LE
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作者:
MELESHKO, KGA;ALDEN, LE
The self-disclosures of socially anxious and nonanxious Ss were compared within the framework of R. M. Arkin's (1981) motivational theory of social anxiety. Ss(N = 84 women) were paired with a confederate who disclosed at either a high or a low level of intimacy (i.e., the classic reciprocity paradigm). Consistent with R. M. Arkin's theory, anxious Ss were concerned with self-protection during the task and disclosed at a moderate level of intimacy regardless of their partner's behavior. In addition. anxious Ss did not reciprocate their partners' disclosures as well as did nonanxious Ss. The self-protective behaviors of the anxious Ss were associated with less liking and more discomfort on the part of their partners. This suggests that the adoption of self-protective strategies may elicit negative interpersonal reactions that maintain self-defeating interpersonal patterns in socially anxious people.