The Self-Consciousness Scale: A Discriminant Validity Study
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 40 (2) , 169-172
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4002_8
Abstract
A recent Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS) measures Private and Public Self-Consciousness and Social Anxiety. The present research was intended to establish discriminant validity for the two Self-consciousness components with respect to several other variables. 105 male undergraduates completed the SCS, the Otis Test of Mental Ability, an abbreviated Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (measuring need for achievement), a Test Anxiety Questionnaire, and the EASI Temperament Survey. Private Self-consciousness did not correlate significantly with any other measure. Public Self-consciousness correlated weakly with the temperaments of Sociability and Emotionality. The Self-consciousness components of the SCS thus appear to be relatively independent of the other measures tested.Keywords
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