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Academic – UNF – Master of Arts in General Psychology; Thesis; University of North Florida; Interpersonal relations; Couples; Self-monitoring; Self-presentation; Cognitive psychology
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Self-Monitoring And Partner Knowledge Structures, Ronald Lee Gainey
Self-Monitoring And Partner Knowledge Structures, Ronald Lee Gainey
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A connection between self-monitoring, which is an individual difference in concern about self-presentation, and partner knowledge structures, which is how people organize thoughts about their current romantic partner, is explored in this study. There were two competing hypotheses. If people structure thoughts about their partner in a way similar to how they structure their social worlds, then low self-monitors would have integrated partner knowledge structures and high self-monitors would have compartmentalized partner knowledge structures. If people structure thoughts about their partner in a way that reflects their relationship motivations and needs then we would find the opposite pattern of results. …