Journal article
Privacy Recalibration in Personal Relationships: Rule Usage Before and After an Incident of Privacy Turbulence
Communication quarterly, Vol.63(3), pp.345-364
05/27/2015
DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2015.1039717
Abstract
Although privacy violations can be uncomfortable and disruptive, they have the potential for positive outcomes in relationships if addressed. Using Communication Privacy Management theory as a framework, this study surveyed a community sample of 273 adults to examine their retrospective accounts of privacy violations in personal relationships. Results showed that less than half of the sample offered explicit rules for information management, and the majority of participants blamed the confidant for the privacy turbulence. Findings indicated that people often do not share similar information with the violator in the future, but if they do, less than half offer explicit privacy rules during the privacy recalibration process. Confrontation efficacy was positively associated with initiating a conversation about the privacy turbulence and that people who engaged in privacy recalibration were more likely to report forgiveness and relational improvement and less likely to report relational damage than those individuals who did not.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Privacy Recalibration in Personal Relationships: Rule Usage Before and After an Incident of Privacy Turbulence
- Creators
- Keli Ryan Steuber - Communication Studies, The College of New JerseyRachel M McLaren - Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Communication quarterly, Vol.63(3), pp.345-364
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/01463373.2015.1039717
- ISSN
- 0146-3373
- eISSN
- 1746-4102
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/27/2015
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984002365602771
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