Self-report measure

Self-Monitoring

Self-Monitoring uses 10 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess Self-Monitoring.

You learn how much you adapt your behavior to fit different social situations.

For anyone who adjusts how they act depending on who is around.

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Your answers stay private.

It comes from social psychology research on tailoring behavior to social settings.

Sample result, example data. Illustrative chart with invented scores; it does not describe any real respondent.

What this test is

Welcome. Self-Monitoring uses 10 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess Self-Monitoring.

The measure

It has 10 items, each answered on a 5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate) scale.

International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org). Source scale: Snyder, 1974.

At a glance

Items

Response scale

5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate)

Est. time

~1 min

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What it measures

Ten statements describe the tendency to adjust one's behavior to the situation: being able to act differently with different people, watching others for cues about how to behave, being able to put on a show to impress or entertain, and finding it easy to imitate others. Low self-monitors, by contrast, behave consistently across situations according to their own feelings and values.

Snyder (1974) introduced self-monitoring to describe individual differences in how much people observe and control their expressive behavior and self-presentation in response to social cues. The concept has been studied in relation to leadership, relationships and attitude change. The statements here come from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool (IPIP).

The ratings are combined into a single score. Higher scores describe a stronger tendency to adapt to social situations; lower scores describe greater consistency across them. Each style has advantages: high self-monitors are flexible and socially skilled, while low self-monitors are consistent and true to their own views.

The scale is used in social and organizational psychology. On this site, the Public Self-Consciousness scale describes awareness of how one appears, the Impression Management scale describes deliberate favorable self-presentation, and the Folk-Concept Trait Scales include Poise and Sociability.

Example item

“Would make a good actor.”

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

Scoring & interpretation

Your report explains each of your scale scores in plain language.

References

Snyder, M. (1974). Self-monitoring of expressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30(4), 526-537.
Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory. Personality Psychology in Europe, 7, 7-28.

Sample report preview

The report shows your total score and where it falls across the range of possible scores, followed by a plain-language explanation of what scores in that region describe. Where the instrument has published interpretive bands, the report names the band and what it means. It closes with notes on how to read the result and on when a conversation with a qualified professional may be useful.

Report contents
Section	What it shows
Score	Your scale score, computed with the published scoring key.
Comparisons	How your scores compare with a published comparison group.

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