DOES SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS MEDIATE THE RELATION BETWEEN SELF-TALK AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE?1

  • SCHNEIDER, JOHANN F.
  • POSPESCHILL, MARKUS
  • RANGER, JOCHEN

  • University of the Saarland

1The authors thank Thomas M. Brinthaupt and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Address correspondence to Johann F. Schneider, 5.3 Psychologie, Universitaet des Saarlandes, D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany or e-mail ([email protected]).

Accepted February 18, 2005.

Psychological Reports 96(2):p 387-396, April 2005.

Summary.—

Building on Morin's understanding of the relations among self-talk, self-consciousness, and self-knowledge, this study examined the hypothesis that functional and dysfunctional self-consciousness mediate between self-talk and self-knowledge. A self-report questionnaire including 10 scales assessing different aspects of Self-talk, Self-consciousness, and Self-knowledge was administered to 200 German undergraduate university students (95 women, 105 men). Mediation analysis showed that the observed negative relationship between Self-talk and Self-knowledge was mediated by Dysfunctional Self-consciousness, while Functional Self-consciousness acted like a supressor variable. The discussion focuses on limitations of the present measures of Self-talk.

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