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Frijns, Tom; Finkenauer, Catrin; Keijsers, Loes – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
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…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Interpersonal Competence
Frijns, Tom; Finkenauer, Catrin – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Increasing bodies of evidence suggest that keeping secrets may be detrimental to well-being and adjustment, whereas confiding secrets may alleviate the detriments of secrecy and benefit well-being and adjustment. However, few studies have addressed the consequences of keeping and confiding secrets simultaneously, and even fewer have done so…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Social Adjustment, Well Being
Frijns, Tom; Keijsers, Loes; Branje, Susan; Meeus, Wim – Journal of Adolescence, 2010
Recent research has identified adolescent disclosure to parents as a powerful predictor of adolescent adjustment. We propose, however, that the common operationalization of adolescent disclosure incorporates the two separate constructs of disclosure and secrecy, and predicted that the disclosure-adjustment link can largely be explained by the…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Prediction, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents