Abstract

Abstract Samples of Black and White students living on a predominantly White college campus in the United States completed a questionnaire that included Snyder's 25-item Self-Monitoring Scale. The Black students scored significantly lower than White students on the Self-Monitoring Scale. Separate analyses based on the three factors identified by Briggs, Cheek, and Buss (1980)–Extraversion, Other-Directedness, and Acting–indicated that the Black students scored significantly lower than the White students only on Other-Directedness, which consists of items that emphasize “pleasing others, conforming to the social situation, and masking one's true feelings” (Briggs et al., 1980, p. 681). These differences are discussed in terms of life on a predominantly White campus for Black and White students.

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