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Day‐to‐day Relationships Between Self‐awareness, Daily Events, and Anxiety
Author(s) -
Nezlek John B.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.05005
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , social anxiety , multilevel model , developmental psychology , self consciousness , clinical psychology , negativity effect , social psychology , psychiatry , machine learning , computer science
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.