Abstract
Theories of privacy and self-disclosure remained largely disconnected. Only recently, approaches such as the Communication Privacy Management Theory or the Privacy Process Model aimed at shedding light upon their seemingly paradoxical connection. Based on these approaches, this chapter highlights that privacy and self-disclosure are linked in two ways: On the one hand, managing or even avoiding self-disclosure can be understood as a form of privacy regulation. On the other hand, a high level of privacy is a perquisite for being able to self-disclose. Both perspectives are important for understanding privacy and self-disclosure processes.
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I will discuss the problems of the synonymous use of context and situation in more detail in Sect. 7.2.2.
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Masur, P.K. (2019). Connecting Privacy and Self-Disclosure. In: Situational Privacy and Self-Disclosure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78884-5_5
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