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Abstract

Self disclosure is revealing information and feelings that individuals have to others. Self esteem is a person's assessment of himself. This study aims to examine the relationship between self-esteem and self-disclosure. Research subjects were students of the UMA Faculty of Psychology. The sample in this study were 60 students. The sampling technique in this study uses purposive sampling. There are two scales used, namely the scale of self-disclosure and self esteem. Data analysis method used Product Moment r analysis. The results showed that there was a relationship between self-esteem and self-disclosure in the UMA Psychology Faculty students with rxy = 0,449 and p = 0,000 (p < 0,05) In addition, the determinant coefficient (r2) obtained is r2 = 0, 201 which shows self-esteem influences self-disclosure 20.1%. The UMA Faculty of Psychology students have high self-disclosure obtained from the results of the hypothetical mean of (85) <from the empirical mean (98.30) with SD of 7.923 and the high self-esteem obtained from the hypothetical mean (82.5) <of empirical mean (100.12) with SD 13.081. This shows a positive relationship between self esteem and self-disclosure, where if self-esteem is high, the higher self-disclosure, and vice versa.