Interest in entering helping activities and self-disclosure to three targets on the Jourard self-disclosure scale.
Jourard's 40-item Self-disclosure Questionnaire was administered to 50 students in a training and selection program for a quasi-counseling position and 52 randomly selected students. Subjects indicated past disclosures to three target persons, parents, best friend, and stranger. Results indicated: highest disclosures were reported to best friends, lowest to strangers; subjects interested in the quasi-counseling position reported more disclosure than subjects not interested in this position; females reported more disclosure than males only to strangers.
D001364:Awareness; D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D003376:Counseling; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D010379:Peer Group; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior