Adolescents, like all individuals, have a need to belong. Consequently, during the
adolescent period, adolescents battle with the establishment and maintenance of
meaningful relationships. Most of them, unfortunately, do not succeed to establish and
maintain such relationships because of a lack of skills to do so. It appears, therefore, that
If adolescents are to enhance their interpersonal relationships so as to enable themselves
to self-actualize, they need to be taught interpersonal skills. One of the skills that they
should be taught is the self-disclosure.
As such, the first part of the literature study was devoted to the discussion of self disclosure.
The study of literature revealed that self-disclosure has many aspects, the
main ones being the nature of the self-disclosure content, self-discloser target, and
concealment. In the second part of the literature study, attention was paid to the nature
of interpersonal relationships with special reference to adolescents' relationships. The
malysis of interpersonal relationships revealed that the establishment and maintenance,
is well as the collapse of interpersonal relationships follow a particular pattern.
Data concerning perceptions, beliefs and attitudes held by adolescents towards selflish
closure in their interpersonal relationships was gathered by means of various
Techniques. Parents' perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards their adolescent children's
perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards self-disclosure in interpersonal relationships
were also assessed. The results of the empirical study revealed that adolescents hold selfdefeating
perceptions, beliefs and attitudes that make it difficult for them to handle selflisclosure
in ways that ought to enhance their interpersonal relationships so as to enable
themselves to self-actualize. These perceptions, beliefs and attitudes may not change easily as their parents, the most important component of the adolescents' significant
others, seem to be modelling self-defeating perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards self-disclosure.
Lastly, a few guidelines to assist adolescents to handle self-disclosure in ways that ought
to enhance their interpersonal relationships so as to enable themselves to self-actualize
were given. / Thesis (D. Ed.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/3272 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Phetla, Rabi Joseph |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (xxvii, 279 leaves) |
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