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Silencing the self in college settings and adjustment
F M Haemmerlie1, R L Montgomery, A Williams
1Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401-0249, USA. berner@umr.edu
Abstract:
The correlations among several measures of silencing the self and scores on the College Adjustment Scale were assessed for male and female students at a midwestern university (N = 143). Analysis showed that high scores on Jack's 1991 Silencing the Self Scale and on one of three new measures designed to extend silencing the self to social group settings were associated with scores indicating poorer college adjustment. Also, men scored higher than women on Jack's 1991 measure, and no significant interactions were found for sex and adjustment for any of the silencing the self measures. Thus, silencing the self was generally associated with poorer adjustment scores and similarly for both women and men.
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