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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确定秘密的维度以减少其危害。

秘密的内容与他们的危害有什么关系？我们确定了一个数据驱动模型（跨越五个经验步骤），这表明人们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）。一个秘密被一致认为是不道德的、关系性的和职业/目标导向的越多，据报道该秘密就越能引起羞耻感、社会联系感和对秘密的洞察力。这三个经验独立地预测了秘密被判断为对幸福有害的程度（研究 2a-c 和 3）。反过来，提醒参与者秘密不需要有害的方式（即跨越秘密的三个维度）增强了参与者的 处理这个秘密的幸福感和效能感（研究 4）。一项检查来自浪漫伴侣的秘密的最终研究复制了对感知应对效率的影响，这反过来预测了关系质量的日常指标（研究 5）。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。