The interactive effects of counselor gender, physical attractiveness and status on client self-disclosure
✍ Scribed by Carla C. Kunin; Miriam J. Rodin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 488 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Investigated client self-disclosure and client perce tion of counselors (as expressed in counselor evaluations) as a function o ! the sex, attractiveness and status of the counselor, and the sex of the client. Counselor gender and attractiveness were established by means of stimulus photographs; counselor status was defined in terms of education and experience. Ss (160 college students) first rated their counselors on intelligence and empathy; they then completed Jourard's Self-Disclosure Questionnaire while role-playing clients in therapy. A four-factor between& analysis of disclosure scores revealed that clients disclosed more of themselves to male than to female counselors when the counselors were high in either status or attractiveness. Results sup orted the hypothesis that the effect of counselor gender on client disclosure Lpends on an interaction of counselor gender with other counselor variables.