CONCERN FOR SELF-PRESENTATION AND SELF-CONGRUENCE - SELF-MONITORING, MACHIAVELLIANISM, AND SOCIAL CONFLICTS

It was predicted that high self-monitors experience self-presentationa l conflicts whereas low self-monitors experience self-congruence confl icts. It was also predicted that low self-monitors who were Machiavell ian would experience self-presentational conflicts like their high sel f-monitoring counterparts. Participants read eight scenarios involving social conflicts in four different contexts and indicated which of tw o conflicts in each scenario they themselves would experience. Partici pants were then classified as high or low in self-monitoring and in Ma chiavellianism. Although there was an unexpected prevalence of self-co ngruence conflicts, the results were consistent with out hypotheses. A lternative explanations and future research directions are discussed.