The relationship between religious beliefs and scores on Jourard's self-disclosure scale was investigated (N = 83). The correlation between beliefs and self-disclosure was zero-order. Ss did perceive themselves to be significantly more “liberal” in religious beliefs than they felt their parents would expect.
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