Communication between individuals can occur in many ways but the amount of information revealed can tell you the strength of their relationship. Self-disclosure is this process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and that would not normally be known by others. Some reasons why someone might disclose information would be for catharsis, self-clarification, self-validation, and reciprocity. People disclose for the reason catharsis because they might want to get something off their chest. Self-clarification is the reason for disclosure in order to clarify their beliefs, opinions, attitudes, and feeling by talking about them with another person. Self-validation is the reason for disclosure when someone wants to seek the listener's agreement or conformation of a belief they hold about themselves. Reciprocity is the reason for disclosure in order to encourage another person to disclose also. Another concept that must be taken into consideration when talking about communication is perception. Perception can be defined as the way one views their surroundings as well as themselves and others. The relatively stable set of percept

In order to understand the self-disclosure and self-concept ideas I concentrated on John Bender. John had a self-concept that was entirely to low for himself. He felt like no one cared about him, not even his own parents. Although his self-concept was very low he did everything he could to cover it up. He was very cocky, arrogant, and insulted everyone in order to cover up his self-concept. He also portrays himself as a big tough guy we would call the school bully. John needs to show everyone that he is always in control. For example, when the principle told John to just be quiet but he would not allow the principle to have the last word so that by the end of their conversation he had two more months of Saturday detentions. John's perception of the world was a cold, violent, bitter world. He thinks he knows the lifestyles in which everyone else lives. He believes Brian's life is great because he is a genius with parents who love and nurture him therefore life must be easy for him. He believes Andrew is just a dumb jock that everyone loves and that his parents are real proud of him so again life must be easy for him. As for Clare's life he believes she is just a spoiled rich girl whose parents give her whatever she wants and she is very popular so her life should not be too hard either. He judges everyone by their surface and reputations instead of who they really are. Later he would realize his perception of their "easy" lives could not be farther from the truth. As the day went on and they learned bits and pieces about each other they began to feel more at ease to talk at a larger breath and then a greater depth. As they were all eating their lunch John began to tell everyone about his home life and how his parents call him a loser in many forms and how his father became abusive towards him. I think his self- disclosure to the others was for self-validation because he was looking for them to understand why he behaves the way he does. They started to talk even more and they even went together to sneak to John's locker. On the way back they would have gotten caught but John saved them by acting as a decoy s

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