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dc.contributor.advisor | O'Connor, Brian | |
dc.contributor.author | Snitz, Ronald Steven | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-05T13:35:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-05T13:35:20Z | |
dc.date.created | 1993 | |
dc.date.issued | 1993 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/904 | |
dc.description.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. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Loneliness | |
dc.subject | Self-disclosure | |
dc.subject | Nonverbal communication (Psychology) | |
dc.title | Loneliness : an examination of the nonverbal behaviors that accompany self-disclosures in unstructured conversations | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
etd.degree.name | Master of Arts | |
etd.degree.level | Master | |
etd.degree.discipline | Psychology | |
etd.degree.grantor | Lakehead University | |
Appears in Collections: | Retrospective theses |
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