Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Connection Autonomy
Predictability Novelty
Openness Privacy
Guidelines for Appropriate Self-
Disclosure
Is the other person important to you?
Is the risk of disclosing reasonable?
Are the amount and type of disclosure
appropriate?
Is the disclosure relevant to the situation at
hand?
Is the disclosure reciprocated?
Will the effect be constructive?
Is the the self-disclosure clear and
understandable?
CHARACTERISTICS OF
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Metacommunication
Messages (usually relational) that refer to
other messages: communication about
communication.
SELF-DISCLOSURE IN
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
A Helical
Model of
Relational
Cycles
(figure 6-3)
CLASS ACTIVITIES:
Self-Disclosure
Johari Window