Abstract

While extensive research has been done on the phenomenon of self-disclosure in psychology, social psychology, and communication, to date there are no empirical phenomenological studies which would account for the meaning of self-disclosure as a lived-experience. This phenomenological investigation points to the essential structure of self-disclosure as a consciousness experience. The problematic in this case is the meaning of self-disclosure as an interpersonal authentic communication. The case is taking a Saudi subject as an empirical ground in which an added understanding of this phenomenon is grasped. The phenomenological method of description, reduction, and interpretation provides an explication for this study. Compared to the quantitative orientation of self-disclosure, this work provides an empirical account for the essence of self-disclosure as a human experience given and accounted for through consciousness