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The Development Of A Naturalistic Self-Management Inventory, Sandra Thomas, D. Olsen, R.L. Williams
The Development Of A Naturalistic Self-Management Inventory, Sandra Thomas, D. Olsen, R.L. Williams
Sandra Thomas
The most common approach to self-management research has been to apply it to a specific target behavior, without attending to the generalizability of changes to other facets of one's life. A procedure for measuring self-management effectiveness under real world conditions was developed which emphasized the successful application of self-change procedures. The Self-Description Form (SDF) was field-tested on a sample of four groups of college students (N=214). Results indicated that normative self-management scores increased as level of education increased. Females had higher self-management scores than males except on the leisure scale. The reliability of the self-description scale was confirmed although validity …