What Is Self-Disclosure In Interpersonal Communication

Self-disclosure is a process of sharing information with others, which helps him or her understand you. Disclosure may include sharing both high-risk and low-risk information as well as personal experiences, ideas and attitudes, feelings and values, past facts and life stories, and even future hopes, dreams, ambitions, and goals. In order to better understand self-disclosure, we will discuss some of the factors that play a part in understanding our relationships. Namely the factors of self-disclosure and self-image and its effects on interpersonal communication and how these factors relate to each other.

Firstly, what exactly is self-disclosure and self-image? Let me describe what self-image is. Self-image is the way in which you view yourself.

Let us take the Scenario of rob into consideration If we take a look at the factors of Self-esteem, self-disclosure and interpersonal relationships from Rob 's point of view it can be described like this. Rob is clearly suffering with issues of low self-esteem which is clearly evident from the fact that he keeps a distance with his manager. People with a negative self-image often feel rejected because they perceive others as unfriendly. We can also identify that due to his lack of self-esteem robs willingness to disclose information about himself is affected, this can be seen by how reluctant he is to share his feelings with others. We can also conclude that robs is unable to have interpersonal relationships because due to his low self-esteem and self-disclosure issues he is especially unwilling to communicate with his

Rob lets perceptual and cultural differences get in the way of his interpersonal relationship with his manager. Rob is distancing himself from his manager due to the fact that his manager is dressed in a cultural manner and that makes Rob uneasy. Rob needs to be aware that his perception of others does not provide him with an accurate interpretation of the messages he may receive from his manager. Rob needs to establish an interpersonal relationship with his manager by increasing his self-esteem and be willing to share information about himself, in order for them to work