Frequent self-disclosure increases feeling of familiarity and closeness. Intimate disclosure can increase closeness, but more often reduces social attraction. The effects of intimate disclosure are constrained by perceived appropriateness. Disclosure narrativity tends to increase perceived closeness and social ...
Self-disclosure is seen as vital to the development of relationships and to the happiness of established relationships. AsJourard and Whitman (1971)put it, “if we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves” (p. 83). Experiments have shown that gradually escalating self-disclosure between s...
Alongside stigma, some social factors acted as barriers to help-seeking, such as desire for autonomy, belief that available support was unhelpful, and fears of poor treatment experiences such as forced hospitalisation. There is an urgent need to provide more effective support developed in collaboratio...
This serves as a motivation for disclosing more information about themselves and increases their tendency toward self-disclosure. Finally, it has been intimated that consumers who are using the SNS primarily for entertainment and enjoyment purposes tend to disclose more information about themselves [42]...
The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior (KAB) model proposes that increases in knowledge impacts behavior change through changes in attitude (Bettinghaus, 1986). This model has been used as a theoretical basis for population-level health campaigns, such as anti-smoking programs, that inform the general popu...