Institute of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznań, Poland.
Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
J Pers. 2019 Jun;87(3):648-660. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12423. Epub 2018 Sep 3.
This study examines the self-presentational motives underlying people's selection of their daily dress and relationships between these motives and public self-consciousness.
Participants in this study, 61 working adults, described their motives for choosing what they wore each day for 2 weeks. They also provided trait-level measures of self-consciousness, social anxiety, and self-monitoring.
Multilevel modeling analyses found positive relationships between public self-consciousness and the strength of various self-presentational motives for why people chose the clothes they wore each day. In contrast, there were few relationships between the strength of these motives and private self-consciousness, social anxiety, and self-monitoring. Participants felt better about themselves when they received compliments from others about their attire and when they were more (vs. less) satisfied with how they had dressed each day.
The results suggest that dispositional public self-consciousness manifests itself in daily life in the form of motives for choosing daily attire, specifically for motives that involve self-presentation.
本研究考察了人们选择日常着装的自我呈现动机，并探讨了这些动机与公众自我意识之间的关系。
本研究的参与者为 61 名在职成年人，他们在两周内描述了自己每天选择穿着的动机。他们还提供了自我意识、社交焦虑和自我监控的特质水平测量。
多层次模型分析发现，公众自我意识与人们每天选择穿着的各种自我呈现动机的强度之间存在正相关关系。相比之下，这些动机的强度与私人自我意识、社交焦虑和自我监控之间的关系较少。当参与者收到他人对其着装的赞美时，以及当他们对每天的穿着更（而不是更不）满意时，他们对自己的感觉更好。
研究结果表明，特质性公众自我意识以选择日常着装动机的形式在日常生活中表现出来，特别是涉及自我呈现的动机。
