Present evidence suggests that an individual's willingness to self-disclose personal information to others may be related to his physical health status. For 62 undergraduate students, significant correlations were found between self-disclosure and measures of acute (—.39) and chronic (—.21) physical illness. These relationships seem to be more curvilinear than linear, supporting the idea that deviations from linearity may often go undetected in studies of self-disclosure.
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