Shared Secrets versus Secrets Kept Private Are Linked to Better Adolescent Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Frijns, Tom; Finkenauer, Catrin; Keijsers, Loes
Titel	Shared Secrets versus Secrets Kept Private Are Linked to Better Adolescent Adjustment
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 36 (2013) 1, S.55-64 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.09.005
Schlagwörter	Adjustment (to Environment); Psychological Patterns; Adolescents; Interpersonal Competence; Delinquency; Surveys; Foreign Countries; Depression (Psychology); Correlation; Parent Child Relationship; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Friendship; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Kriminalität; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausland; Korrelation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Freundschaft; Niederlande
Abstract	It is a household notion that secrecy is bad while sharing is good. But what about shared secrets? The present research adopts a functional analysis of sharing secrets, arguing that it should negate harmful consequences generally associated with secrecy and serves important interpersonal functions in adolescence. A survey study among 790 Dutch adolescents showed that, in line with hypotheses, shared secrets (1) were kept by more adolescents than private secrets, (2) were not linked to maladjustment and (3) were linked to higher interpersonal functioning. Whereas private secrecy was associated with increased delinquency, physical complaints, depressive mood, loneliness, and with lower quality relationships, shared secrecy was associated only with more interpersonal competence. Moreover, sharing a secret was specifically linked to a higher quality relationship with the confidant, and sharing with parents was linked with less delinquency, whereas sharing with a best friend was linked with less loneliness and more interpersonal competence. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10