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Validity and Reliability of the Spanish Version of the Revised Self-Monitoring Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2015

Borja Paredes ,
Maria Stavraki ,
Darío Díaz ,
Beatriz Gandarillas  and
Pablo Briñol
Borja Paredes*
Affiliation:
UNED (Spain)
Maria Stavraki
Affiliation:
Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (Spain)
Darío Díaz
Affiliation:
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Beatriz Gandarillas
Affiliation:
IE Universidad (Spain)
Pablo Briñol
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Borja Paredes. Department of Social Psychology. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Calle Juan del Rosal, 10. Madrid (Spain). 28040. E-mail: bparedes@psi.uned.es
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Abstract

Self-Monitoring (SM) is a concept that refers to individual differences in this orientation toward regulation of social behavior. The goal of the present research was to provide a Spanish adaptation of Snyder and Gangestad’s (1986) Revised SM Scale. After conducting an initial pilot study, results showed that the Spanish version of the scale had good internal reliability and adequate factor structure. In Study 1, analyses support a unidimensional structure of the scale (χ2/df = 2.64; GFI = .97; IFI = .97; TLI = .96; RMSEA = .06). In Study 2, the scale showed discriminant validity from other individual differences measures, such as Need for Cognition (r = 0.12 p = 0.14), Social Desirability (r = 0.06, p > .45) and Extraversion (r = 0.28 p = .001). In Study 3, the scale showed adequate test-retest reliability (r = 0.71, p < .001). Finally, using a paradigm of attitude-behavior consistenty, Study 4 showed that the validated scale also had good predictive validity (B = –0.819, p = .035).

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self-monitoringscaleindividual differencespersonalityattitude-behavior consistency

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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 18 , 2015 , E71
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2015 

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