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Development and Validation of the Situational Self-Awareness Scale

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1006/ccog.2001.0506

1090-2376

John M. Govern, Lisa A. Marsch,

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

This article discusses the manipulation and measurement of levels of situational self-focus, which is generally labeled “self-awareness.” A new scale was developed to quantify levels of public and private self-awareness. Five studies were conducted to assess the psychometric properties, reliability, and validity of the Situational Self-Awareness Scale (SSAS). The SSAS was found to have a reliable factor structure, to detect differences in public and private self-awareness produced by laboratory manipulations, and to be sensitive to changes in self-awareness within individuals over time and across situations. The SSAS can be used as a manipulation check of laboratory self-awareness manipulations and as a means of assessing naturally occurring fluctuations in public and private self-awareness in order to clarify the relation between self-awareness and other variables (e.g., mood and memory).