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What types of persons are more or less likely to self-disclose? That is, what individual differences exist between those who voluntarily reveal personal information to others and those who avoid such intimate self-revelation? Recent attempts to survey the evidence concerning this question have not been especially encouraging. For example, Archer (1979), in a review of the empirical attempts to link self-disclosure with personality characteristics of the discloser, stressed the relative dearth of strong and consistent results. Among the few features that do appear to be characteristic of disclosers are a lack of introversion, a lack of neuroticism, and a tendency toward impulsivity. However, despite numerous attempts to demonstrate links with many other measures of psychological functioning, Archer’s conclusion was that at present a “hazy, confused portrait is all that can be distilled from some twenty years of research” (p. 38).
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Davis, M.H., Franzoi, S.L. (1987). Private Self-Consciousness and Self-Disclosure. In: Derlega, V.J., Berg, J.H. (eds) Self-Disclosure. Perspectives in Social Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3523-6_4
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