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Keeping quiet: Self-silencing and its association with relational and individual functioning among adolescent romantic couples

Melinda S. Harper

Queens University of Charlotte, harperm{at}queens.edu

Deborah P. Welsh

University of Tennessee

This study examined the relationships between self-silencing and relational and individual functioning among adolescent romantic couples. Adolescent couples (N = 211) completed questionnaires and participated in a videotaped conflict interaction. High self-silencers reported conceding more to their partner during a conflict, poorer global communication within their romantic relationships, and greater experiences of depressive symptomatology. Partners of self-silencers reported more frustration and discomfort when interacting with the self-silencing member. Although significant actor and partner effects were not found between relationship satisfaction and self-silencing, correlation analyses by gender revealed a significant negative correlation between self-silencing and relationship satisfaction among adolescent girls. Self-silencing is related to multiple aspects of adolescent romantic relationships including communication patterns and the quality of relational and individual functioning.

Key Words: adolescents • communication • depression • relationship satisfaction • romantic relationships • self-silencing

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 24, No. 1, 99-116 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407507072601
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