Self-monitoring and student integration of community college students

This article reports how the Self-Monitoring Scale (M. Snyder, 1974) predic ted integration in the student integration model (V.Tinto, 1987, 1993) amon g a sample of 380 American community college students, a 2 x 2 between-subj ects multivariate analysis of variance was performed on 2 dependent variabl es: academic and social integration. The independent variables were gender and self-monitoring (low and high), A significant main effect of self-monit oring was obtained for academic integration. Low self monitors were signifi cantly more likely to integrate academically than high self-monitors. A sig nificant interaction effect of gender and self-monitoring was obtained for social integration. High self-monitoring men were significantly more likely to achieve social integration than low self-monitoring men.