A Study On College Students' Impression Management And It's Affecting Factors

Impression management is a process in which a person tries to affect others' impression.It is a kind of universal interpersonal phenomenon.It penetrates every aspect of human life.We cannot measure its effect.In recent years,impression management has received increasing attention in psychology and organizational science,and it has become a very important research varialble.These researches are dominant by definition, classification,strategies and determinant of impression management.Research about its dimensionality is relatively less. So it'svery necessary to discuss the dimensionalities of impression management and to investigate the relationship between different dimensionalities and their affecting factors.This study is to review the college students' impression management and its affecting factors. Interview and questionnaire method were applied.There are mainly two parts: (1) The first is to workout and edit the research tool.The items of impression management were workouted through interviewing, based on the theory of the two-component model in impression management and the SPEQ.After experts' assessment items were edited,and the predictive questionnaire was defined.Then pre-examination was made with the self-edited impression management questionnaire,the ready-made self-monitoring and self-esteem questionnaire. Through item discrimination,exploratory factor,and internal consistency analysis,the predictive questionnaires was edited,and the formal ones were resulted in.(2) The second is to investigate impression management and its affecting factors. Confirmatory factor,reliability and validity, correlation, and multivariate variance analysis were taken, so as to probe into the predictive effect of self-monitoring and self-esteem on college students' impression motivation and impression construction.At the same time,this study reviewed the impact of demography variables.