ABSTRACT
ADVOCATING a relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication, Millar and Rogers (1976) identified control, inti- macy, and trust as transactional dimensions of relationships. Although Millar and Rogers cautioned that these three do not exhaust the list of relational variables, relational researchers have focused their investiga- tions primarily on the control dimension; as a result, the terms “relational control” and “relational communication” have become synonymous. Inter- personal scholars have not ignored intimacy as a research topic; rather, they have considered the concept to be isomorphic with self-disclosure. Never- theless, most previous self-disclosure research has neither conceptualized nor measured disclosure at a relational level.
