The Chilling Effect in Families and the Pressure to Conceal Secrets

By Tamara D. Afifi, L. Olson. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Inappropriate Parental Divorce Disclosures, the Factors that Prompt them, and their Impact on Parents’ and Adolescents’ Well-Being (2007, background): “The maintenance of a cohesive family depends upon disclosure regarding individual family members’ thoughts and feelings (Afifi & Olson, 2005; Greeff & van der Mewre, 2004).”
The Salience of the Subtle Aspects of Parental Involvement and Encouraging that Involvement: Implications for School-Based Programs (2010, background): “Another subtle influential aspect of parental involvement is communication about school between parents and children (Afifi & Olson, 2005; Davalos, Chavez, & Guardiola, 2005; Jeynes, 2005c).”
Item Parceling in Structural Equation Modeling: A Primer (2008, background): “Afifi and Olson (2005 ), who modeled a latent factor for coercive power by assembling four parcels representing four power-related concepts (oppressive power, influential power, symbolic aggression, and physical aggression).”
Parental Involvement Research: Moving to the Next Level (2011, background): “A second important subtle aspect of parental involvement is communication about school between parents and children (Afifi & Olson, 2005; Davalos, Chavez, & Guardiola, 2005; Jeynes, 2005a, 2007b).”
Communication Processes that Predict Young Adults’ Feelings of Being Caught and their Associations with Mental Health and Family Satisfaction (2007, unknown): “Symbolic aggression includes behaviors such as name calling, passive aggressiveness, swearing, insults, sulking, withholding affection, and demeaning looks (Afifi & Olson, 2005; Cloven & Roloff, 1993; Solomon, Knobloch, & Fitzpatrick, 2004; Straus, 1990).”
A Meta-Analytical Review of Family Communication Patterns and their Associations with Information Processing, Behavioral, and Psychosocial Outcomes (2008, background): “…satisfaction, perceived stress, feelings of triangulation, closeness, commitment, reticence, and communication apprehension, to name a few (e.g., Afifi & Olson, 2005; Kelly et al., 2002; Rangarajan & Kelly, 2006; Schrodt, 2005; Schrodt & Ledbetter, 2007; Schrodt et al., 2007; Sillars et al.,…”
The Revelation Risk Model (RRM): Factors that Predict the Revelation of Secrets and the Strategies Used to Reveal Them (2009, methodology): “The types of secrets cited in this sample are reported in a separate manuscript (names withheld; Afifi & Olson, 2005).”
Confirmation in Parent–Adolescent Relationships and Adolescent Openness: Toward Extending Confirmation Theory (2006, background): “Conversely, lower conversation orientation and higher conformity orientation (i.e., greater emphasis on similarity in beliefs and values) is related to more secret concealment (Afifi & Olson, 2005).”
Military Wives' Stressful Disclosures to Their Deployed Husbands: The Role of Protective Buffering (2010, background): “People are more likely to disclose their stressors to others who can identify or empathize with them (Afifi & Olson, 2005; Kelly & McKillop, 1996), such as other military wives.”