Public Self-Consciousness

Public Self-Consciousness is administered here as one of the International Personality Item Pool's single-construct scales: original public-domain items catalogued at ipip.ori.org (Goldberg, 1999) and keyed to one specific individual-differences construct, rather than belonging to a broad multi-factor inventory. This form presents 12 items rated on a 5-point scale; responses are summed in the keyed direction after any reverse-worded items are recoded.

The construct label and item membership follow the IPIP catalog directly. Because this exact public-domain item set is what is administered, the standings shown in the norms section are computed on this form itself (see the cited reference-sample note), not borrowed from any other instrument.

The notes below are reproduced from the platform's psychometrics register for this instrument — the same source-cited reliability, validity, and norms text that accompanies its downloadable report.

Fenigstein et al. (1975) report adequate reliability for the public self-consciousness subscale. IPIP-based operationalization; reliability of this exact 12-item set is not separately published.

Public self-consciousness — awareness of oneself as a social object — shows convergent validity with social anxiety, impression management, and responsiveness to social feedback (Fenigstein et al., 1975).

Scores are expressed as percent-of-maximum on the 1–5 accuracy scale using Higher/Average/Lower bands. No published normative tables exist for this specific IPIP operationalization.

“Worry about what people think of me.”

Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.

Item responses are summed within each scale (reverse-keyed items recoded first) and expressed as a percent of the maximum possible score. No normative percentile is applied — there is no verbatim-matched published norm for this exact item set.

International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org).