Disclosure and Secrecy in Marriage: Do Both Contribute to Marital Satisfaction?

By Catrin Finkenauer, Hana Hazam. 2000

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Military Wives' Stressful Disclosures to Their Deployed Husbands: The Role of Protective Buffering (2010, background): “…such as hurtful messages, are associated with worsened relationship quality (e.g., Vangelisti, Maguire, Alexander, & Clark, 2007), in general, research demonstrates that there is a strong, positive relationship between openness and relationship satisfaction (e.g., Finkenauer & Hazam, 2000).”
Disclosure and Relationship Satisfaction in Families (2004, background): “If partners in horizontal relationships perceive their partners to disclose less frequently to them, they may attribute this lack of disclosure to a poorly functioning marital (Finkenauer & Hazam, 2000) or sibling relationship (Howe et al., 1995).”
Self-Disclosure in Intimate Relationships: Associations with Individual and Relationship Characteristics Over Time (2004, background): “Although several studies have focused on self–disclosure in romantic couples (e.g., Finkenauer & Hazam, 2000; Meeks, Hendrick, & Hendrick, 1998; Murstein & Adler, 1995), rarely has self–disclosure been investigated in a study that involves a sample of couples who completed a battery of measures…”