Abstract
Psychosocial factors and symptoms of depression: Self-monitoring. Two studies are reported, both of them concerned with the relationship between self-monitoring (SM) and depression. In the first, 124 adolescents and 156 undergraduates completed the Snyder SelfMonitoring Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Three months later, undergraduates completed the BDI again. An ANOVA with sex, age and SM total index (high, middle, low) indicated that the main effect and the interaction effects of SM were not statistically significant However, regression analyses with the factors of SM found by Avia, Carrillo y Rojo (1987) showed that the factor named social leading-activity was related to depression and the factor named "performance to bear upon people " (F2) was a vulnerability factor. In the second study, 79 undergraduates completed the SM Scale and the BDI, and three months later, the Life Events Survey and the BDI. Correlational and regression analyses indicated that F2 was related to depression and the factor named "congruence principles-behavior" increased the depressogenic impact of stress. Results are discussed in terms of SM multidimensionality and also depression research.
