| > > Fear of intimacy has three defining features: content which represents the ability to communicate personal information [...] > What the hell does that mean? "Content?" Like a YouTube video or something? It's taken directly from the source cited (page 2 of https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Development-and-Valida...). I'm not an expert in the field and have no idea if this is a good paper, but it has received 267 citations which does convey some impact. > The fear-of-intimacy construct takes into account three defining features: (a) content, the communication of personal information;(b) emotional valence, strong feelings about the personal information exchanged; and (c) vulnerability, high regard for the intimate other. We propose that it is only with the coexistence of content, emotional valence, and vulnerability that intimacy can exist. Consider, for example, the customer who talks to an unknown bartender about his or her troubles. Although there may be personal content It's clear that it's not the noun "content" but the adjective, defined as "pleased with your situation and not hoping for change or improvement". I hope the Wikipedia editors are more literate and willing to research than that. I don't think I want to read your version of wikipedia. |
No, it's not the adjective. The other 2 features are nouns, so this one must also be a noun, since it's a parallel construct. Also, they're all "features", so they have to be nouns by definition. And what would the adjective even be describing?
In this case, the "content" refers (I guess) to the content that's being communicated, though it's poorly phrased.
The Wikipedia excerpt is badly written, whether you agree with the GP or not about the article being biased towards women. It's not even a paraphrase of the original source, which claims the content is the communication itself, whereas the article claims the content "represents the ability to communicate personal information" — which is pretty meaningless.