On The Sources of Self-Knowledge: The Perceived Primacy of Self-Reflection

Constantine Sedikides · John J. Skowronski

79 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Social and Clinical Psychology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Personality Traits and Psychology Emotions and Moral Behavior Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Abstract

Examined perceived sources of self-knowledge in 4 studies. In Study 1, 90 college students were asked to list the means, ways, tactics, or strategies they used to gain self-knowledge or increase self-understanding. In Study 2, 254 Ss rank-ordered the self-knowledge categories generated from the 1st study. In Study 3, 224 Ss rated the categories in terms of their importance to self-understanding. In Study 4, 105 Ss rated 9 of the 11 categories, and filled out the private self-consciousness scale and the self- monitoring scale. Results show that processes of self-reflection are perceived by people to be most important to the acquisition of self-knowledge. Social factors, such as social comparison and reflected appraisal, are also perceived to influence self-knowledge. The importance of self-reflection and social categories, to gaining self-knowledge, was influenced by the Ss self-monitoring style.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 79 citations exist upstream.

References

1991Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation 1954A Theory of Social Comparison Processes 2015Mind, Self, and Society 1977Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.1986Possible selves.1982The need for cognition.1989The self and social behavior in differing cultural contexts.2017Human Nature and the Social Order

Cited by

2004Engaging in Self-Reflection Changes Self-Concept Clarity: On Differences Between Women and Men, and Low- and High-Clarity Individuals 2006Terror Management and Trait Empathy: Evidence that Mortality Salience Promotes Reactions of Forgiveness among People with High (vs. low) Trait Empathy 2006Reciprocal influences of victimization, perceived social preference, and self-concept in adolescence 2023On how Fiction Impacts the Self-Concept: Transformative Reading Experiences and Storyworld Possible Selves 2006Theater Engagement and Self-Concept in College Undergraduates

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.