Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to explore the relation¬ship between how well a person is liked and the degree of self-disclosure. Comparisons were made between persons who disclosed themselves in low, moderate and high levels. The effect of same-sex or different sex between subjects and confederates were also tested. The sample for this research were 60 male and 60 female students at the upper-secondary school level (M.S.4-5). The instruments were: 1) a rating scale for liking measurement 2) a semantic differential scale for the perception of the confederated 3) questions and answers used in conversation for subjects and confederates. All these instrument were constructed by the researcher. Subjects were assigned to sit back to back and converse with the confederates who disclosed information as was prepared in low, moderate and high levels. Each conversation lasted about 10 minutes. After the conversation, subjects were asked to rate their liking for confederates by rating the rating scale and the semantic differential scale. The data wereanalized by the readymade program: SPSS. The Statistical method used was a two way analysis of variance. The major findings were as follows: 1. The result which obtained from rating scale was that the subjects liking for disclosing confederates at low, moderate and sigh levels was not statistical significantly different and there was no statistical significant difference of liking whether the subjects and the confederates were of the same sex or different sex. 2. The result which obtained from the semantic different scale was that the subjects' liking for the confederates who disclosed at the three levels of disclosure were statistical significantly different at .05 level. Wien the differences between groups were tested, it was found that the confederates who disclosed at high level were rated in the favor.ble direction than the low-disclosure confederates statistically significant at .05 level. Though the lot'-disclosure confederates were not rated in the negative direction.