Day-to-day relationships between self-awareness, daily events, and anxiety.

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Every day for 3 weeks, 41 participants provided measures of their state private and public self-consciousness (self-awareness, SA), and anxiety, and they described the events that occurred each day. Multilevel random coefficient modeling analyses found that daily private and public SA were positively related to the importance and frequency of daily negative social events and to daily anxiety. Public SA was also positively related to the importance and frequency of daily positive social events. Neither public nor private SA was related to the importance and frequency of daily achievement events. The strength of the relationship between public SA and positive social events was stronger for people who were less anxious, less depressed, and for those with greater self-esteem. Analyses of lagged relationships suggested that increased private SA led to increased negativity of social events, whereas increased public SA led to increased positivity of social events, and increased anxiety led to increased private SA.

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Author/s: Nezlek, John B (JB);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA. john.nezlek(-atsign-)wm.edu

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of personality (J Pers), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Apr; vol 70 (issue 2) : pp 249-75

Dates: Created 2002/03/22; Completed 2002/09/20; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 11908847, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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