Self-disclosure between friends: A validity study.

Required each member of 26 pairs of undergraduates and their friends to indicate on the Self-Disclosure Questionnaire the amount of personal information disclosed to his friend and the amount of information received. Results indicate considerable agreement as to the amount of information exchanged. Ss reported that they had disclosed approximately the same amount of information as they had received. The consensual validation of the amount of personal information exchanged between friends suggests that the Self-Disclosure Questionnaire is a valid measure of self-disclosure to a specific target person. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)