e/Self monitoring

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has gloss	eng: Self-monitoring is a contribution to the psychology of personality, proposed by Mark Snyder in 1974. The theory refers to the process through which people regulate their own behavior in order to "look good" so that they will be perceived by others in a favorable manner. It distinguishes between high self-monitors, who monitor their behavior to fit different situations, and low self-monitors, who are more cross-situationally consistent. Snyder designed a questionnaire to assess self-monitoring called the Self-Monitoring Scale, based on the assumption that high self-monitoring could be defined as consisting of: #High concern with the social appropriateness of ones actions; #Use of social comparison information; #Ability to monitor ones behavior to fit different situations; #Ability to do this in specific situations; #Trait...
lexicalization	eng: Self monitoring
lexicalization	eng: Self-monitoring
instance of	c/Personality theories