TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-monitoring
T2 - Appraisal and reappraisal
AU - Gangestad, Steven W.
AU - Snyder, Mark
PY - 2000/7
Y1 - 2000/7
N2 - Theory and research on self-monitoring have accumulated into a sizable literature on the impact of variation in the extent to which people cultivate public appearances in diverse domains of social functioning. Yet self-monitoring and its measure, the Self-Monitoring Scale, are surrounded by controversy generated by conflicting answers to the critical question, Is self-monitoring a unitary phenomenon? A primary source of answers to this question has been largely neglected - the Self-Monitoring Scale's relations with external criteria. We propose a quantitative method to examine the self-monitoring literature and thereby address major issues of the controversy. Application of this method reveals that, with important exceptions, a wide range of external criteria tap a dimension directly measured by the Self-Monitoring Scale. We discuss what this appraisal reveals about what self-monitoring is and is not.
AB - Theory and research on self-monitoring have accumulated into a sizable literature on the impact of variation in the extent to which people cultivate public appearances in diverse domains of social functioning. Yet self-monitoring and its measure, the Self-Monitoring Scale, are surrounded by controversy generated by conflicting answers to the critical question, Is self-monitoring a unitary phenomenon? A primary source of answers to this question has been largely neglected - the Self-Monitoring Scale's relations with external criteria. We propose a quantitative method to examine the self-monitoring literature and thereby address major issues of the controversy. Application of this method reveals that, with important exceptions, a wide range of external criteria tap a dimension directly measured by the Self-Monitoring Scale. We discuss what this appraisal reveals about what self-monitoring is and is not.
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U2 - 10.1037/0033-2909.126.4.530
DO - 10.1037/0033-2909.126.4.530
M3 - Article
C2 - 10900995
AN - SCOPUS:0034222247
SN - 0033-2909
VL - 126
SP - 530
EP - 555
JO - Psychological Bulletin
JF - Psychological Bulletin
IS - 4
ER -