The Self-Monitoring Scale: A Factorial Comparison among Mexicans, Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans

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The purpose of this study was to determine the factorial structure of Snyder's (1974) Self-Monitoring Scale (SM) for Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo American samples. The SM Scale was translated into Spanish and the adequacy of the translation determined. Responses to the SM Scale by 138 Mexican, 154 Mexican American, and 145 Anglo American undergraduates were factor analyzed separately and as a total sample. The data for the entire sample partially replicated the findings of Gabrenya and Arkin (1980). Clear differences in the structure of SM responses for the three Ethnic/National groups exist. The meaning of subjects' responses to SM items are thus culturally dependent, although means and standard deviations of SM responses did not differ among the three groups. These findings are discussed in terms of appropriate and inappropriate uses for the SM Scale in social-psychological research.

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