Self-disclosure of college students in context to their gender, educational stream and type of family

Pages:196-198
Anjana S. Chauhan and Gandharva R. Joshi (Department of Psychology, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujrat)

In the present study an attempt has been made to study the effect of Gender, Educational stream and type of family of college students on their self disclosure. In order to pursue above objective Virendra Sinha’s Self-Disclosure Inventory was used to collect data. The sample considered of 150 (75 male/75 female) College students selected from various colleges. 25 students were those who have Arts Stream 25 students were those who have commerce stream and 25 students were those who have science stream. Data were analyzed by 2X3 ANOVA, L.S.D. and t- test. Findings of the study revealed that there is no significant difference between self disclosure of male and female students. However there is significant difference found between educational stream on self disclosure of students as well as type of family and self disclosure of college students.