The possibility that 69 male and 20 female graduate students in counseling were more flexible in their self-disclosure than were 57 male and 32 female undergraduates was tested in mixed-sex samples. Results supported the hypothesis and suggest that different criteria for flexibility of disclosure might operate for the two groups.
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