Gender and Self-Disclosure

This chapter reviews strategies that have been used in efforts to solve the puzzle of the relationship between gender and self-disclosure and identifies issues that need to be addressed in the future.

Abstract

The relationship between gender and self-disclosure is a topic of research for which some of the clearest predictions have been made, yet some of the most puzzling results have been obtained. In this chapter we review strategies that we and others have used in efforts to solve the puzzle. Our goal is to explore issues that have been addressed in the past and to identify issues that need to be addressed in the future.