Self-monitoring and family environments

This study investigates the relationship between self-monitoring behavior and alcoholic and normal family environments. Little research has focused on the impact of an alcoholic family environment on self-monitoring behavior (Ross, 1992; Snyder & Gangestad, 1986). Subjects (n=208) were obtained through undergraduate and graduate psychology classes. Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale was used to assess individual levels of self-monitoring with demographic items added to identify subjects reared in alcoholic family environments and subjects reared in normal family environments. The research hypothesis was that those individuals reportedly reared in alcoholic environments will have, on average, a higher degree self-monitoring behavior than those reared in normal environments. The data were examined using a One-Way ANOVA and, post hoc, factor analyses. The results did not support the research hypothesis. The implications of this failure are discussed.