How does the content of secrets relate to their harms? We identified a data-driven model (across five empirical steps), which suggested that secrets are generally seen to differ in how immoral, relational, and profession/goal-oriented they are (Study 1). The more a secret was consensually perceived to be immoral, relational, and profession/goal-oriented, the more that secret was reported to evoke feelings of shame, social connectedness, and insight into the secret, respectively. These three experiences independently predicted the extent to which the secret was judged as harmful to well-being (Studies 2a-c and 3). Reciprocally, reminding participants of the ways in which a secret does not need to be harmful (i.e., across the three dimensions of secrets) bolstered participants' feelings of well-being and efficacy with regard to coping with that secret (Study 4). A final study that examined secrets from romantic partners replicated the effect on perceived coping efficacy, which in turn predicted daily indicators of relationship quality (Study 5). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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确定秘密的大小，以减少其危害。

机密内容如何与危害相联系？我们确定了一个数据驱动的模型（跨越五个经验步骤），这表明，通常认为秘密在不道德，关系和职业/目标导向方面有所不同（研究1）。人们认为，一个秘密越是不道德，关连和以职业/目标为导向，则该秘密被唤起的耻辱感，社交联系和对秘密的洞察力就越多。这三个经验独立地预测了该秘密被认为对幸福有害的程度（研究2a-c和3）。相应地，提醒参与者不需要秘密的方式（即，跨越秘密的三个维度）有害于参与者。应对这个秘密的幸福感和功效（研究4）。一项最终研究检查了恋人伴侣的秘密，该研究复制了对知觉应对效果的影响，进而预测了日常关系质量指标（研究5）。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。