Jd. Foubert et Bk. Sholley, EFFECTS OF GENDER, GENDER-ROLE, AND INDIVIDUALIZED TRUST ON SELF-DISCLOSURE, Journal of social behavior and personality, 11(5), 1996, pp. 277-288
Self-disclosure, the process of revealing personal information to othe
r people, was examined as effected by gender, gender role, and individ
ualized trust. undergraduate participants (N = 293) completed the Jour
ard Self-Disclosure Scale (Jourard, 1971b), the Bern Sex Role Inventor
y (Bem, 1974), the Individualized Trust Scales (Wheeless & Grotz, 1977
), and a demographic questionnaire. Significant interactions emerged b
etween gender and individualized trust (p < .01), gender and gender ro
le (p < .05), and individualized trust and gender role (p = .01). Alth
ough masculine males and masculine females self-disclosed similarly, f
eminine females disclosed markedly more than feminine males. The relat
ionship, between individualized trust and gender role revealed that an
increase in self-disclosure common to androgynous individuals is rest
ricted to those who are high trusting.