Date of Award
Summer 1981
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Psychology
Program/Concentration
Psychology
Committee Director
Louis H. Janda
Committee Member
Thomas F. Cash
Committee Member
Barry Gillen
Call Number for Print
Special Collections LD4331.P65 S46
Abstract
Sixty-four male teenage residents (32 white, 32 black) of a juvenile detention home were exposed to intimate self-disclosure from an experimental confederate posing as a volunteer at the facility. Subjects were assigned to one of eight conditions which varied subject race (white or black), confederate race (white or black), and content of confederate disclosure (depression or substance abuse). Following the confederate's disclosure, each subject revealed in return and then completed a questionnaire measuring various dimensions of attraction to the confederate. Subjects disclosed more intimately and gave higher ratings of liking, trust, and similarity to same-race partners. Also, black subjects reported feeling less trusted by their partners. Confederates revealing substance abuse problems were perceived as less adjusted. The results were interpreted within the framework of social penetration theory. Methodological difficulties of self-disclosure research were discussed.
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DOI
10.25777/kz3g-pz63
Recommended Citation
Sholis, David R..
"Reciprocal Self-Disclosure in Mixed-Race and Same-Race Dyads"
(1981). Master of Science (MS), Thesis, Psychology, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/kz3g-pz63
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