Measuring Private Self-Consciousness

Questionnaire

1. I’m always trying to figure myself out.

2. Generally, I’m not very aware of myself. *

3. I reflect about myself a lot.

4. I’m often the subject of my own fantasies.

5. I never scrutinize myself. *

6. I’m generally attentive to my inner feelings.

7. I’m constantly examining my motives.

8. I sometimes have the feeling that I’m off somewhere watching myself.

9. I’m alert to changes in my mood.

10. I’m aware of the way my mind works when I work through a problem.

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Please answer all the questions.

Note, the two items with an asterisk (*) were reverse-scored; that is, for those items, a lower rating actually indicates a greater tendency to attend to private thoughts and feelings. Before summing the items, we recoded those with an asterisk so that 0 = 4, 1 = 3, 3 = 1, and 4 = 0.

SCS: From “Public and Private Self-Consciousness: Assessment and Theory” by Allan Fenigstein, Michael F. Scheier, and Arnold H. Buss in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975, 43, 522–527 (Table 1, p. 524). Copyright © 1975 by the American Psychological Association. Adapted with permission.