TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing a Model of Disclosure, Perceived Support Quality, and Well-Being in the College Student Mental Illness Context
T2 - A Weekly Diary Study
AU - Taniguchi-Dorios, Emiko
AU - Thompson, Charee M.
AU - Reid, Tingting
N1 - The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Prominent disclosure models elucidate decisions to disclose health information, yet explanations for disclosure consequences remain underdeveloped. Drawing on Chaudoir and Fisher’s disclosure process model, this study aims to advance understandings of how disclosure to a parent contributes to well-being for college students with mental illness. We tested a mediational model in which, at the within-person level, perceived support quality explains the association between on-going disclosure of mental illness-related experiences and well-being. Participants were 163 college students who self-identified as having mental illness and who completed six consecutive, weekly surveys. A multilevel analysis showed that increases in disclosures of mental illness-related experiences, relative to participants’ mean level, were associated with enhanced well-being via perceptions of higher quality support, above and beyond between-person differences. This study contributes to the literature by offering an explanation for the effects of disclosure on well-being and underscores the importance of capturing disclosures over time.
AB - Prominent disclosure models elucidate decisions to disclose health information, yet explanations for disclosure consequences remain underdeveloped. Drawing on Chaudoir and Fisher’s disclosure process model, this study aims to advance understandings of how disclosure to a parent contributes to well-being for college students with mental illness. We tested a mediational model in which, at the within-person level, perceived support quality explains the association between on-going disclosure of mental illness-related experiences and well-being. Participants were 163 college students who self-identified as having mental illness and who completed six consecutive, weekly surveys. A multilevel analysis showed that increases in disclosures of mental illness-related experiences, relative to participants’ mean level, were associated with enhanced well-being via perceptions of higher quality support, above and beyond between-person differences. This study contributes to the literature by offering an explanation for the effects of disclosure on well-being and underscores the importance of capturing disclosures over time.
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U2 - 10.1080/10410236.2022.2086841
DO - 10.1080/10410236.2022.2086841
M3 - Article
C2 - 35775202
AN - SCOPUS:85133266371
SN - 1041-0236
VL - 38
SP - 2516
EP - 2526
JO - Health communication
JF - Health communication
IS - 11
ER -