Self-monitoring and family environments

Author

Janet Krantz

Date of Award

5-1996

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Educational Psychology

Major Professor

William A. Poppen

Committee Members

Kathleen Davis, Wesley Morgan, John Lounsbury

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Krantz, Janet, "Self-monitoring and family environments. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1996.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/10869