A self-disclosure questionnaire was administered to 21 male and 21 female Ss under instructions to report what they (1) had disclosed, (2) would initiate, and (3) would disclose in response to others' initiation to the significant others of mother, father, same-sex friend and opposite-sex friend. The results indicated that Ss were not willing to initiate self disclosure at a greater depth than they had disclosed in the past, although they would be willing to disclose in more depth were topics initiated by the significant other. The same pattern of differential disclosure to significant others was found to hold for what Ss “had told,” “would initiate,” and “would respond.”
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