| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 心理學系 === 81 === The major purpose of this present study is to examine the
effects of "self-monitoring" personality variable on
anticipatory attitude changes. It was hypothesized that when
the high self-monitors are anticipated to discuss an issue
with someone who stands on the opposite position,they would
moderate their attitudes in advance no matter whether the issue
expected to discuss is high or low self-relevant. Based on Bond
and Hwang''s(1986) inference that Chinese are high in self-
monitoring ,we expected recruiting the Taiwanese students as
subjects would generate different results than Cialdini et al''
s(1976) original findings. However,the results of the present
study not only fail to support the hypothesis,but also are
inconsistent with Cialdiniet al''s patterns.Subjects were
regrouped as high versus low self-monitors based on their
scores on the Chinese edition of Self-Monitoring Scale
(Lin,1985),further analysis still fail to support the
predition. The external validity of the Cialdini et al.
findings and the soundness of the inferences that high self-
monitors would moderate their attitudes anticipatorily are
questioned and discussed.
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