Allocentrism and friendship satisfaction : The mediating roles of disclosure and closeness

Suivant la theorie de l'interdependance et du modele de processus interpersonnel d'intimite les attributs, les perceptions, les cognitions et l'affect personnels individuels devraient avoir une incidence sur les attentes dans une relation. La revelation de soi est une forme d'interdependance comportementale et englobe les perceptions de la revelation du partenaire. Ces comportements (sa propre revelation) et les perceptions (la revelation percue du partenaire) devraient avoir une incidence sur la connaissance de soi et du partenaire (compatibilite cognitive) et l'affect au sujet de la relation (la satisfaction). Les attributs personnels determinent aussi la facon de reagir des personnes. L'allocentrisme, un attribut personnel, refere a l'orientation d'une personne supposant des liens et une dependance emotive sur les autres. Une etude faisant appel a des amities entre personnes de sexe different a permis de tester si l'allocentrisme predisait la revelation de soi, la revelation de soi predisait la revelation percue de l'ami, qui predisait la compatibilite et en dernier lieu la satisfaction predite de compatibilite. Une serie de regressions hierarchiques sont venues a l'appui de ces relations et representaient 23 % de l'ecart de satisfaction.

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