Abstract: Based on bibliometric approach, the authors make a statistical analysis of the literatures on self-disclosure from 1975 to 2005 in SSCI, and reveal the main subject areas, sources, researchers and development trends in this specific research area, especially those of the 38 domestic academic papers by experts from Hongkong, Taiwan and China mainland, which focus on the influence of Chinese culture and on some similar hot issues, research subjects, and methods compared with the foreign studies. From the perspective of research history, it deserves to point out that the domestic scholars should strengthen the studies on the theories of self-disclosure

Key words: self-disclosure, SSCI, bibliometric analysis