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- Title
"Just How Much Did That Wheelchair Cost?": Management of Privacy Boundaries by Persons with Disabilities.
- Authors
Braithwaite, Dawn O.
- Abstract
Persons with physical disabilities were studied to determine how they communicate when they perceive ablebodied persons are expecting or demanding disclosure about their disability in new relationships. An interpretive analysis was performed on 350 pages of transcripted data from interviews with disabled adults. The results showed that disabled persons were able to describe the communication of ablebodied others and their attributions when disclosure was demanded or expected. This study revealed communication strategies disabled persons use to manage disclosure. These strategies were discussed as regulating privacy boundaries, whereby disabled persons seek to he acknowledged as "persons first" by controlling dissemination of private information.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with disabilities; INTERPERSONAL communication; SELF-disclosure; DISCLOSURE; RIGHT of privacy; COMMUNICATION &; psychology
- Publication
Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, 1991, Vol 55, Issue 3, p254
- ISSN
0193-6700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570319109374384