Self-disclosure and interpersonal functioning.

53 Peace Corps trainees were administered a self-disclosure questionnaire during a pretraining assessment program. Trainees who demonstrated a readiness to confide personal information to others were found to be more well liked by the other trainees and the training staff after 6 wk. of training than trainees who were reluctant to disclose personal information. Hypotheses concerning the relations between self-disclosure, integrative complexity, and authoritarianism were supported. The accessible trainees tended to be more integratively complex and less authoritarian than the inaccessible trainees. Implications of self-disclosure for interpersonal openness and effectiveness are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)