The Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale and a Self-disclosure Questionnaire developed by the junior author were administered to two samples of college students. In the first sample ( N = 54) self-disclosure to a specific target person was related to Interpersonal Trust; in the second sample (N = 52) it was artempred to tap a more generalized concept of revealingness and to relate it to Interpersonal Trust. Failure to demonstrate the hypothesized relationships is discussed wich reference to unsatisfactory conceptualization of the major concepts and their relation to one another, and possible weaknesses in the measurement procedures.In recent years self-disclosure has become a much-studied phenomenon. Various investigators have studied self-disclosure in actual therapeutic sirnations and in psychotherapeutic analogues. Others have studied self-disclosure in group settings and in vario~ls other interpersonal situations. Unfortunately, definitional and measurement problems have hampered substantial progress in this area.
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