Abstract
The current study was designed to overcome some of the limitations of current research by conducting interviews with 23 senior citizens, aged 77- 93, who were in romantic relationships and lived in senior citizen apartment complexes. Using Communication Privacy Management Theory (Petronio, 2002), the results explore issues of privacy and their effects on sexual communication in senior citizen romantic relationships. One major theme emerged: the dialectical tension of openness and closedness (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996). This theme was broken down into four subthemes (creating openness, closedness through lack of communication, the private stays private, and it's private but l'll tell you).
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
50
Issue
1
First Page
26
Last Page
51
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Kratzer, Jessica M. W.
(2018)
"Communication Privacy Management in Senior Citizen Romantic Relationships,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 50:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol50/iss1/5
Copyright
©2018 Iowa Communication Association
