Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.2
EAN num: 9780716717980
ISBN number: 0716717980
Label: W.H. Freeman & Company
Manufacturer: W.H. Freeman & Company
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Page Count: 266
Printing Date: 1986-11
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Mark Snyder is a social psychologist known in the field for his work on self-monitoring -- people's monitoring of and control over how they present themselves publicly. He developed the Self-Monitoring Scale in 1972. In this book he describes the theory and his own and others' empirical findings on self-monitoring. He addresses questions of what exactly self-monitoring is, how it varies from one person to the next, why we do it, what consequences it has, and how people use it for benefit. Differences between "high self-monitors" and "low self-monitors" (i.e. self-monitoring is seen as a trait) are discussed in depth. An extensive reference list is included. Pretty much everything there is to know about the concept of self-monitoring up to 1987 is here -- which makes this a handy 200 pages for those who need or want to know this stuff.
This book is quite technical -- but a reader could skip such sections as "Factor Analysis and the Class Model", which includes sentences like, "Accordingly, the self-monitoring class variable need not appear as one of the axes in a factor solution involving rotation to simple structure" (p. 163), and still get a lot out of the book.
In all it's a nice blend of theory and research and is worthwhile reading for any student of personality or social psychology.
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