0 a person you trust and share your feelings and secrets with:
a close confidant
1 a person with whom you can share your feelings and secrets:
These dimensions included spouse problems, spouse support, relative problems, relative support, friend problems, friend support, confidants and social integration.
As a measure of social support, respondents were asked if they had someone with whom they could share a very personal problem (a confidant).
Like many songs of this popular genre, its text treats the clavichord as a confidant for the poet's sorrows.
Almost all had a confidant (94.8%), and most considered their neighbours helpful (78.5%).
Males, have fewer confidants overall and it is less likely that male twins share the same confidants.
For relative support genetic factors were detected in females but not males, while for confidants, the shared environment was important in females but not males.
It may help to talk to someone, but who should be the confidant?
The findings on confidants show the overwhelming importance of close family members when available.
