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Gender and Situational Context Moderate the Relationship Between Self‐Monitoring and Induction of Self‐Disclosure
Author(s) -
Shaffer David R.,
Pegalis Linda J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00010
Subject(s) - self disclosure , self monitoring , psychology , situational ethics , context (archaeology) , interview , social psychology , self , developmental psychology , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Male and female undergraduates who differed in degree of self‐monitoring interviewed same‐sex strangers to test the hypothesis that interviewer self‐monitoring propensities foster self‐disclosure only in disclosure‐conducive contexts (i.e., collaborative contexts for men and social‐expressive contexts for women). Results indicated that high self‐monitoring (but not low self‐monitoring) interviewers of each gender were notably more successful at eliciting personal information in the contexts generally considered amenable to male and female self‐disclosure than in disclosure‐nonconducive contexts. Moreover, male high self‐monitoring interviewers reliably elicited more information than their low self‐monitoring counterparts only in the disclosure‐ conducive (for men) collaborative context. However, high self‐monitoring female interviewers did not elicit more information than their dispositional counterparts in disclosure‐conducive, social‐expressive contexts, although they reliably induced less disclosure than low self‐monitors in the disclosure‐nonconducive (for women) collaborative context.