Open AccessSexual Self-disclosure and Gender Consciousness of Undergraduate Students of Obafemi Awolowo University
Author(s) -
S. A. Oluwatosin,
Alaba Adeyemi Adediwura
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v1n2p126
Subject(s) - psychology , self disclosure , androgyny , clinical psychology , consciousness , significant difference , developmental psychology , social psychology , masculinity , medicine , neuroscience , psychoanalysis
The study investigated gender consciousness and sexual self-disclosure of undergraduate students attending counseling sessions as well as gender difference in sexual self disclosure. Sixty (60) consenting undergraduates who had attended counseling session for sexual concerns in the last three months preceding this study period were used for the Snell (1996) were used to collect data for the study The results showed that the relationship between sexual self-disclosure to therapist and gender consciousness is a weak but positive relationship (Pearson and Kendal tau correlation coefficients: r=0.15 and 0.12, respectively). There was a significant but negative relationship between students’ sexual self-disclosure and the therapist sex (r= -0.52 and b =0.37). Also difference in sexual self disclosure between male and female clients showed a non significant t-test of t = 0.20. The study showed a trend in clients’ psychological androgyny (neither strongly male nor strongly female) inclination to gender consciousness and self-disclosure.