Lakehead University Library Logo
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   Knowledge Commons Home
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    • Retrospective theses
    • View Item
    •   Knowledge Commons Home
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    • Retrospective theses
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    quick search

    Browse

    All of Knowledge CommonsCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDisciplineAdvisorCommittee MemberThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDisciplineAdvisorCommittee Member

    My Account

    Login

    Loneliness : an examination of the nonverbal behaviors that accompany self-disclosures in unstructured conversations

    Thumbnail
    Date
    1993
    Author
    Snitz, Ronald Steven
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Loneliness is an interpersonal problem that involves a lack of intimacy and inappropriate self-disclosure patterns. Double bind theory predicts that high selfdisclosures should normally be accompanied by highintimate nonverbal behaviors. Discrepancy-arousal and intimacy-equilibrium theories predict that low selfdisclosures should normally be accompanied by highintimate nonverbal behaviors. Eighty female undergraduates, randomly paired into zero-history dyads, participated in unstructured 15 minute conversations. After controlling for the intimate nonverbal behavior of partners, lonelier people displayed significantly less intimate nonverbal behavior during low self-disclosures, and tended to display less intimate nonverbal behavior during high self-disclosures. However the results supported none of the above theories because the subjects (both lonely and nonlonely) did not behave differently during high, as compared to low, self-disclosures. Nonverbal intimacy while listening to self-disclosures was not associated with loneliness. Lonelier subjects liked their partners significantly less and tended to falsely perceive themselves as being disliked by their partners, bias associated suggesting a negative perceptual with the experience of loneliness.
    URI
    http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/904
    Collections
    • Retrospective theses [1605]

    Lakehead University Library
    Contact Us | Send Feedback

     

     


    Lakehead University Library
    Contact Us | Send Feedback