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Triad Disclosure
One of our authors, Dr. Schrodt and his colleague Dr. Afifi, examined the associations among family members’ reports of negative relational disclosures and their feelings of being caught in their study titled “Untying the ties that bind” in the Journal of Family Issues in 2018. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families. Social relations analyses revealed positive associations between each family member’s actor effect for negative disclosures (i.e., each member’s individual disposition to perceive receiving negative disclosures across all family relationships) and their feelings of being caught between the other two members of the family triad. The child’s actor effect for receiving negative disclosures from parents was positively associated with both parents’ feelings of being caught between their child and spouse. Important patterns of association emerged between unique relationship effects of receiving negative disclosures and family members’ feeling caught. Whereas negative disclosures in parent–child dyads were positively associated with feeling caught (especially for mothers and children), in spousal dyads, they were inversely associated with feeling caught.
Schrodt, P., & Afifi, T. D. (2018). Untying the ties that bind: Dispositional and relational patterns of negative relational disclosures and family members’ feelings of being caught. Journal of Family Issues, 39, 1962–1983. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X17739050
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