title: Personality assessment of adolescents: an analysis of the Junior Self-Monitoring Scale.
abstract: The factor structure and reliability of Graziano, Musser, Leone, and Lautenschlager's 1987 Junior Self-monitoring Scale was examined using the responses of 1279 students in Grades 6 to 9. Analyses suggested that the scale contains two main factors which represent Concern for Social Appropriateness and Ability to Modify Self-presentation. We suggest using a 20-item version of the scale (rather than the original 24-item version) to provide increased reliability and that the scale may be more appropriate than the Adolescent Self-monitoring Scale by Pledger for use with younger children because it is easier to read and has abundant situational cues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California 95211, USA.
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Howells
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Fishfader
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010553:Personality Development; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D012925:Social Conformity; D012951:Socialization