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Boundary Coordination in Relationships: Understanding Communication and Privacy Management

Explore the intricate balance between public and private boundaries in relationships, how they are negotiated and coordinated to maintain intimacy levels. Learn about the concept of private information possession, privacy rules, shared boundaries, and dealing with boundary turbulence. Discover applications of CPM Theory in stepfamily communication, marital communication, HIV disclosure, child sexual abuse, and family planning.

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Boundary Coordination in Relationships: Understanding Communication and Privacy Management

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  1. Communication Privacy Management Theory (Sandra Petronio) COM 452 Summer, 2010

  2. Nutshell Description • A relationship requires both public and private boundaries between the feelings we want to share and those we want to keep to ourselves. • Negotiation and coordinating are processes whereby we keep these boundaries defined. • The clarity of the defined boundary is based on the level of intimacy in the relationship. • Based on critiques of studies of self-disclosure and social penetration theory

  3. Key Ideas • Dialectical tension between the public and the private • Private information conceptualized as possession • Privacy rules • Shared boundaries • Boundary coordination • Boundary turbulence

  4. Applications of CPM Theory • Stepfamily communication • Marital communication • HIV disclosure • Child sexual abuse • Family planning

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