Privacy Recalibration in Personal Relationships: Rule Usage Before and After an Incident of Privacy Turbulence

摘要

Although privacy violations can be uncomfortable and disruptive, they have the potentialrnfor positive outcomes in relationships if addressed. Using Communication PrivacyrnManagement theory as a framework, this study surveyed a community sample of 273rnadults to examine their retrospective accounts of privacy violations in personal relationships.rnResults showed that less than half of the sample offered explicit rules for informationrnmanagement, and the majority of participants blamed the confidant for the privacy turbulence.rnFindings indicated that people often do not share similar information with thernviolator in the future, but if they do, less than half offer explicit privacy rules duringrnthe privacy recalibration process. Confrontation efficacy was positively associated withrninitiating a conversation about the privacy turbulence and that people who engaged inrnprivacy recalibration were more likely to report forgiveness and relational improvementrnand less likely to report relational damage than those individuals who did not.