ABSTRACT
Self-disclosure is crucial to maintaining dyadic or interpersonal relationships. Self-disclosure is a way to gain information about another person and learn how they think and feel. Studies on self-disclosure are sometimes done by observing other people’s relationships. The participants could be asked by the researcher to do a self-report and disclose their own behaviors of communication to show how they think and feel about their self-disclosure or an autoethnography can be done by the researcher about one’s own self-disclosure. An autoethnography is a self-narrative that critiques the position of self with others in social contexts. Auto-ethnography relies on systematic gathering and analysis of field data from people involved in genuine life experiences. Gina Sirico could better integrate how impression formation, catharsis, and reciprocity are defined and evident within her autoethnography. She included the concepts but could provide more guidance to the reader to see how they are apparent within her analysis.
