Objective self-awareness

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The objective self-awareness in the (OSA) indicates psychology the status of " actor as observers ."

Base

Objective self-awareness is based on the following assumptions:

  • The attention of an individual may be based on external events or the individual himself.
Mirrors, cameras, playing your own voice or similar environmental stimuli that suggest an observation can trigger a state of objective self-awareness.
  • In the state of objective self-awareness, the individual pays attention to their own behavior and their own moods and standards. If there is a discrepancy between behavior and standards, there is a motive for discrepancy reduction by means of:
* Change of behavior
* Defensive reaction (denial ...)

examination

In an experiment by Pryor et al. (1977), subjects filled out a sociability scale with items such as “I think I communicate well with members of the opposite sex” or “I like to meet other people”.

Then they were put in a waiting situation, together with an informed assistant from the experimenter. The helper assessed the test subjects after the mutual waiting time with the same items with which the test subjects had described themselves.

If the test subjects filled out the sociability scale in a room with a mirror, the correlation between the two ratings was significantly higher . In addition, the self-assessment was compared with the words spoken during the waiting time; here, too, the presence of a mirror increased the correlation between self-assessment and behavior.

literature

  • Duval, S. & Wicklund, RA (1972). A theory of objective self-awareness. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0122256506
  • Wicklund, RA & Frey, D. (1993). The theory of self-awareness. In D. Frey & M.Irle (eds.), Theories of Social Psychology. Volume I (pp. 155-173). Bern: Huber. ISBN 3456820380
  • Pryor, JB, Gibbons, F., & Wicklund RA (1977). Self-focused attention and self-report validity. Journal of Personality, 45, 513-527.
  • Snyder, M. (1972). Self-monitoring of expressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 526-527.
  • Snyder, M. (1987). Public appearance, private realities: The psychology of self-monitoring. New York: Freeman. ISBN 0716717980
  • Mielke, R. & Kilian, R. (1990). When partial scales do not complement each other to what the overall scale is intended to capture. Investigations into the self-monitoring concept. Journal of Social Psychology, 21, 126-135.

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