The Relationship Between Self-Disclosure and Intimacy Satisfaction: Chain Mediating Role of Response and Positive Emotion

The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of self-disclosure on intimacy satisfaction and its mechanism. 408 couples who were in love were recruited and tested with self-disclosure scale, disclosure response and perceived response scale, positive emotion scale and intimate relationship satisfaction scale. Results found that: (1) There was a significant positive correlation among self-disclosure, response, positive emotion and intimacy satisfaction. (2) Self-disclosure not only directly and significantly positively predicted intimate relationship satisfaction, but also had an indirect effect on intimate relationship satisfaction through the mediating role of response, positive emotion. (3) “response positive-emotion” played a chain mediating role in the impact of self-disclosure on intimacy satisfaction, and the single mediating role of positive emotion is no longer significant. This shows that in the influence path of self-disclosure on intimacy satisfaction, response is a more important and key factor than positive emotion, which reflects the importance of intimate interaction.