The Revelation Risk Model (RRM): Factors that Predict the Revelation of Secrets and the Strategies Used to Reveal Them

Afifi, Tamara D.; Steuber, Keli Ryan

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“…Common goals for disclosure include the desire to maintain a close relationship, emotional catharsis, a desire to educate others, and wishes to avoid rejection and selfblame (Afifi & Steuber, 2009;Derlega & Winstead, 2001;Derlega et al, 2000;Derlega, Winstead, Greene, Serovich, & Elwood, 2004). The findings from our study echo these goals, as well as highlight specific ways in which these goals compete with one another and how parents might choose to manage these competing goals when relaying HIV-related information.…”

Section: Being Open Without Damaging Parental Identitysupporting

confidence: 71%

Communicating in Complex Situations: A Normative Approach to HIV-Related Talk Among Parents Who Are HIV+

Edwards

Donovan-Kicken

Reis

2013

Health Communication

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Parents with HIV/AIDS are confronted with unique challenges when discussing HIV-related information with their children. Strategies for navigating these challenges effectively have not been systematically examined. In this study, we conducted in-depth interviews with 76 parents with HIV/AIDS who had children ages 10-18. Guided by O'Keefe and Delia's definition of a complex communication situation and Goldsmith's normative approach to interpersonal communication, we examined parents' goals for discussing HIV-related information, factors that made conversations challenging, and instances where these conversational purposes conflicted with one another. Our data reveal the following parent-adolescent communication predicaments: relaying safety information about HIV while minimizing child anxiety, modeling open family communication without damaging one's parental identity, and balancing parent-child relational needs amidst living with an unpredictable health condition. Parents also described a variety of strategies for mitigating challenges when discussing HIV-related topics. Strategies parents perceived as effective included: reframing HIV as a chronic, manageable illness; keeping talk educational; and embedding HIV-related topics within more general conversations. The theoretical and practical applications of these findings are discussed with regards to their relevance to health communication scholars and HIV care professionals.

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Section: Being Open Without Damaging Parental Identitysupporting

confidence: 71%

Communicating in Complex Situations: A Normative Approach to HIV-Related Talk Among Parents Who Are HIV+

Edwards

Donovan-Kicken

Reis

2013

Health Communication

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“…¼ not significant; IV ¼ independent variable; DV ¼ dependent variable. Afifi & Steuber, 2009), risk-benefit assessments mediated the relationship between T and intentionality, magnitude, and valence. These findings and their implications are discussed in greater detail below.…”

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“…Several theories of communication have addressed the disclosure decision process and the ways that individuals manage private information (e.g., Afifi & Steuber, 2009;Altman & Taylor, 1973;Petronio, 2002). CPM theory (Petronio, 1991(Petronio, , 2000(Petronio, , 2002) is one such theory that addresses the ways that individuals reveal or conceal information.…”

Section: Communication Privacy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to CPM theory (Petronio, 2000(Petronio, , 2002 and other models of disclosure (e.g., Afifi & Steuber, 2009), individuals assess the risks and benefits of disclosing before making the decision to reveal or conceal information. Risks of disclosure may include loss of control, embarrassment, hurt, or rejection (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996), while benefits may include increased intimacy, closeness, and satisfaction.…”

Section: Communication Privacy Managementmentioning

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Physiology and pillow talk

Denes

Afifi

2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study investigates the association between individual differences in testosterone and communication after sexual activity. Two hundred and fifty-three young adult participants (78% women, M age ¼ 21 years, 73% White) provided saliva samples (later assayed for testosterone) and subsequently, over a 2-week period, completed an online diary after each time they engaged in sexual activity. Individual differences in testosterone levels were inversely associated with perceived benefits of, and positively associated with perceived risks of, disclosing thoughts and feelings to one's partner after sexual activity. When testosterone levels were higher, post sex disclosures were less intentional and less positive, and these associations were mediated by risk-benefit assessments. An interaction between testosterone and orgasm revealed that higher testosterone levels were associated with more negative post sex disclosures for those who did not orgasm, but not for those who experienced orgasm. This finding suggests that high testosterone/ no orgasm individuals may be the least likely to experience the beneficial effects of post sex communication. Similar results were found both when biological sex was controlled for and when analyses were conducted separately for women and men. Implications for a biosocial model of post sex behavior and communication are discussed.

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“…The relationship has wide implications for the formation and maintenance of each relationship partners' self-concept (Aron et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2006). Partners within a relationship actively manage how the relationship is viewed by others (Afifi & Steuber, 2009;Kunkel et al, 2003;Steuber & Solomon, 2011), but also manage the impressions others have of themselves as an individual outside the relationship (Goffman, 1959;Leary, 1995;Schlenker, 1980). However, greater importance appears to be placed on maintaining the impression of oneself in the minds of others over that of maintaining others' impression of the relationship (Afifi et al, 2001;Afifi & Steuber, 2009).…”

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Perceived Relationship Dissolution and Sexual Orientation of a Hypothetical Ex-Partner as a Threat to Identity

Reysen

Katzarska‐Miller

2013

IJPR

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We examined the effect of participants' beliefs regarding origins of sexuality and the sexual orientation of a partner initiating the termination of a relationship on participants' emotional experience and perceived harm to one's public identity. Self-identified heterosexual participants who endorsed the belief that sexual orientation is either innate or a choice were asked to imagine that a relationship partner left them for either a same-sex or opposite-sex relationship partner. A mediated moderation analysis showed that, compared to when the ex-partner was straight, participants with a belief that sexual orientation is innate believed the gay ex-partner was not intentionally attempting to harm their public identity and perceived less damage to their public identity, which resulted in less anger.

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The Revelation Risk Model (RRM): Factors that Predict the Revelation of Secrets and the Strategies Used to Reveal Them

Cited by 185 publications

References 41 publications

Communicating in Complex Situations: A Normative Approach to HIV-Related Talk Among Parents Who Are HIV+

Communicating in Complex Situations: A Normative Approach to HIV-Related Talk Among Parents Who Are HIV+

Physiology and pillow talk

Perceived Relationship Dissolution and Sexual Orientation of a Hypothetical Ex-Partner as a Threat to Identity

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