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Glasnost and the Art of Conversation

A Multilevel Analysis of Intimate Disclosure Across Three Former Communist Cultures

Bristol University, England, R.Goodwin{at}bristol.ac.uk

George Nizharadze

Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia

Lan Anh Nguyen Luu

Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

Eva Kosa

Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

Tatiana Emelyanova

Tver State University, Russia

Despite extensive research in the field of self-disclosure, little is known about the impact of a formerly repressive regime on disclosure or the manner in which culture, demographic variables, and individual worldviews combine to affect disclosure. Building on the previous literature on social penetration processes and uncertainty reduction, the authors generated nine hypotheses about the impact of these variables on intimate disclosure. Worldview and disclosure data were collected from 450 participants in three cultures (Russia, Georgia, and Hungary) and from three occupational groups (manual workers, business people, and students). Significant effects on disclosure were found for culture, interaction target, age of respondent, and their level of fatalism, with interaction effects for the topic discussed and the occupation and gender of the respondent. Results are discussed in terms of the development of personal relationships in the emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the context of a wider debate about the contribution of different levels of variables in understanding close personal relationships.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 1, 72-90 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022199030001004


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