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Self Disclosure (Characteristics of Appropriate Self Disclosure (Self…
Self Disclosure
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Vocabulary
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Johari Window can be applied to a variety of interpersonal interactions in order to help us understand what parts of ourselves are open, hidden, blind, and unknown.
Unknown Self area, as it contains information not known to ourselves or others.
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Social Penetration theory states that as we get to know someone, we engage in a reciprocal process of self-disclosure that changes in breadth and depth and affects how a relationship develops.
Self-disclosure is purposeful disclosure of significant personal information that wouldn’t normally be known by others
Johari window can be applied to a variety of interpersonal interactions in order to help us understand what parts of ourselves are open, hidden, blind, and unknown. For instance think about a window with four panes and one axis of the window represent the things that are known/unknown to us, and the other axis represents things that are known/unknown to others
Open Self information that is known to us and to others. The amount of information that is openly known to others varies based on relational context. When you are with close friends, there is probably a lot of information already in the open pane, and when you are with close family, there is also probably a lot of information in the open pane.
Blind Self We can see that people who have a disconnect between how they see themselves and how others see them may have more information in their blind pane. The more open you are to receiving honest feedback from those around you the smaller your blind window might be.
Hidden information that is known to us but not to others. As we are getting to know someone, we engage in self-disclosure and move information from the “hidden” to the “open” pane. By doing this, we decrease the size of our hidden area and increase the size of our open area, which increases our shared reality. The reactions that we get from people as we open up to them help us form our self-concepts and also help determine the trajectory of the relationship.
Unknown Self area, as it contains information not known to ourselves or others. To become more self-aware, we must solicit feedback from others to learn more about our blind pane, but we must also explore the unknown pane. To discover the unknown, we have to get out of our comfort zones and try new things. We have to pay attention to the things that excite or scare us and investigate them more to see if we can learn something new about ourselves.
Social Penetration theory: When we engage in a inter changing process of information which changes the breadth and depth and affects how relationship develops.
Depth In this it can be referred to personal sensitive information.For instance take an onion and as we peel each layer away we get deeper and deeper to the core
Breadth to the range of topics discussed. The more topics you talk about the more breadth to your disclosure
Risk of Self-Disclosure: As their are several good reasons about self disclosure that could help people to create a strong bond between themselves but their are some risks about self disclosure that could break that bond. These could be other person not responding favorably to the information, risking other person going the power in relationship and lastly breakup in the relationship.
Function of Self-Disclouser:Self Disclosure has quite a bit of function as it helps person to know about other person. As it is way to learn about how somebody feels and thinks about anything, also if a person self disclose about themselves it is most likely for another person to disclose about himself, So that you would be able to build a strong relationship among themselves
Personal Experience In my personal life I have a very bad habit of self disclosing about my thoughts or in general talk I would self disclose my self to a person I just meet couple minutes ago. as one time I was self disclosing a trait of mine which was being funny but I didn't thought how the person would take that information and at the end he hated me and never talked to me