Domain Differentiated Disclosure to Mothers and Siblings and Associations With Sibling Relationship Quality and Youth Emotional Adjustment
Domain Differentiated Disclosure to Mothers and Siblings and Associations With Sibling Relationship Quality and Youth Emotional Adjustment
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10.1037/dev0000036
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
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Greer, Kelly Bassett
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Campione-Barr, Nicole;Lindell, Anna K.;Greer, Kelly Bassett
披露，或向他人透露个人信息，对于发展和维持亲密关系非常重要(Jourard，1971；Rotenberg，1995)。然而，最近在发展心理学中，重点是研究青少年向父母披露信息，作为一种关于他们日常活动的信息管理手段。这项研究假设a)同一家庭中多个青少年和父母之间的信息披露是相似的，以及b)只有青少年向父母传递的信息对青少年的幸福感是重要的。因此，本文介绍了两项家庭内研究的结果，以考察向母亲和兄弟姐妹披露青年的数量和社会领域的差异，以及向兄弟姐妹披露对关系质量和青年情绪适应的影响。研究1使用了101对兄弟姐妹，他们的年龄从11岁到21岁不等，但所有兄弟姐妹都住在一起。研究2调查了58个兄弟姐妹的样本，其中第一个孩子都是一年级的大学生，第二个孩子都在上高中。所有参与者都完成了问卷调查，以评估研究变量。研究结果显示，虽然年轻人向母亲透露的信息比兄弟姐妹更多，但这种差异在成年后就消失了，特别是取决于问题的领域。此外，虽然兄弟姐妹之间更多的披露对关系的质量是积极的，但兄弟姐妹披露与情绪调整的关系是不同的，这取决于年轻人是受害者还是被披露的对象，披露的问题的领域，以及二人组的性别构成。
Disclosure, or revealing personal information to others, is important for the development and maintenance of close relationships (Jourard, 1971; Rotenberg, 1995). More recently within developmental psychology, however, the focus has been the study of adolescent disclosure to parents as a means of information management regarding their daily activities. This research assumes that a) disclosure between multiple adolescents and parents within the same family are similar, and b) only information transmitted from adolescents to parents is important for adolescent well-being. Thus, this article presents the findings of 2 within-family studies to investigate differences in the amount and social domain (Smetana, 2006; Turiel, 2002) of youth disclosure to mothers versus siblings, and the influence of disclosure to siblings on relationship quality and youth emotional adjustment. Study 1 utilized 101 sibling dyads with youth ranging in age from 11-21 years, but all siblings living together. Study 2 investigated a sample of 58 sibling dyads in which all first-borns were first-year college students and all second-borns were in high school. All participants completed questionnaire measures to assess study variables. Findings revealed that while youth disclosed more to mothers than siblings, this difference disappears by emerging adulthood, particularly depending on the domain of the issue. Additionally, while greater disclosure among siblings was positive for the quality of the relationship, sibling disclosure was differentially associated with emotional adjustment depending on whether youth were the disclosers or being disclosed to, the domain of the issues disclosed, and the gender composition of the dyad.