A Research On Self-disclosure With Peers Of High School Students And It's Relationship With Pressure

Self-disclosure, which has aroused wide attention from researchers in recent years, is a key part in the research of psychology. Self-disclosure is one of the important elements which affect an individual's physical and mental health and social adjustment, and also an effective method to deal with pressure and improve interpersonal relationship for an individual. This paper concentrates on a special group of people--high school students, and tries to investigate the characteristics of self-disclosure and its relation with psychological pressure by adopting the questionnaire method. By using two questionnaires (one about self-disclosure among teenagers and their peers, the other about their pressures in their daily life), the independent-samples t-test, variance analysis(ANOVA), and Correlation analysis in the statistics software SPSS19.0 , I finally come up with the research result through interviewing 413 students in 3 high schools in Kaifeng. The results are as follows:First of all, there are significant differences in different dimensions in terms of self-disclosure among high school students. In these dimensions, tastes and interests takes the first position, followed by experiences in school, academic performance, attitudes and opinion, friendship, physical development, and the self-disclosure of parent-child relationship are the least among them.Secondly, there are not obvious gender and grade differences in general when mentioned self-disclosure between high school students. Girls tend to disclose a little bit more than boys and grade 2 students tend to disclose a bit more than grade 1 and grade 3 students.Thirdly, high school students'preferable partners to disclose are their best friends of the same gender, followed by their best friends of the opposite gender and ordinary classmates, either for boys or for girls. However, girls are more likely to disclose to their best friends, no matter they are of the same gender or of the opposite, compared with their boy peers. And boys are more likely to disclose to their ordinary classmates.Fourthly, there are not obvious grade differences in terms of high school students'self-disclosure. Grade 1 students are simply a little bit more likely to disclose to their best friends of the same gender than their grade 2 and grade 3 peers. But as for self-disclosure to friends of the opposite gender, grade 3 students'self-disclosure level is higher. As for self-disclosure to their ordinary classmates, grade 3 students'self-disclosure level is the lowest.Fifthly, there is significant negative correlation between high school students'self-disclosure level and their pressure. Therefore, self-disclosure level can predict pressure.