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Development and validation of the situational self-awareness scale
1Department of Psychology, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, USA. jgovern@towson.edu
Consciousness and Cognition
|November 8, 2001
Summary
Researchers developed a new scale to measure situational self-awareness, finding it reliable for assessing public and private self-focus across different contexts and manipulations.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Psychometrics
Background:
- Self-awareness, or situational self-focus, is a key psychological construct.
- Existing methods for measuring self-awareness have limitations in capturing situational fluctuations.
- Understanding public and private self-awareness is crucial for various psychological research areas.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate a new scale for measuring situational self-awareness.
- To quantify levels of public and private self-awareness.
- To provide a reliable tool for assessing self-awareness in research settings.
Main Methods:
- Development of the Situational Self-Awareness Scale (SSAS).
- Conduction of five studies to assess psychometric properties, reliability, and validity.
- Utilizing laboratory manipulations to test the scale's sensitivity.
Main Results:
- The SSAS demonstrated a reliable factor structure.
- The scale successfully detected differences in self-awareness induced by laboratory manipulations.
- The SSAS proved sensitive to individual changes in self-awareness over time and across situations.
Conclusions:
- The Situational Self-Awareness Scale (SSAS) is a psychometrically sound instrument.
- The SSAS can serve as a manipulation check for self-awareness studies.
- The scale facilitates research on the relationship between self-awareness and other psychological variables like mood and memory.