TOOLS FOR SELF-AWARENESS RESEARCH

I get a lot of requests for information regarding ways of manipulating and measuring self-awareness. Below are links to pages that describe manipulations or measures and provide the references for the original works.

1. MANIPULATIONS OF SELF-AWARENESS

Mirrors

Video Cameras

Self-Novelty Manipulations

 

2. MEASURES OF SELF-AWARENESS:

"State" Self-Awareness

The Self-Focus Stroop Tasks (Geller & Shaver, 1976)

The "Linguistic Implications Form" Pronoun-Selection Task (Wegner & Giuliano, 1980, 1983)

Modified Private Self-Consciousness Scale (Sedikides, 1992)

Situational Self-Awareness Scales (Govern & Marsch, 2001)

Word-Recognition Measure of Self-Awareness (Eichstaedt & Silvia, 2003)


Individual-Differences in Self-Awareness

The Self-Consciousness Scales (Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975)

Scale of Maladaptive Self-Consciousness (Christensen, 1982)

The Revised Self-Consciousness Scales (Scheier & Carver, 1985)

Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire (Trapnell & Campbell, 1999)

Self-Reflection and Insight Scales (Grant, Franklin, & Langford, 2002)

 

P. Silvia, UNCG
Last Updated: May 07, 2005