The Relationship And Experimental Research On Self-monitoring And Impulsivity

In this paper, the relationship between self-monitoring and impulsivity was discussed toexplain the behavioral mechanism of different kinds of self-monitors.350students in a localcollege selected by a cluster sampling approach participated in the study. The subjects wereasked to finish Self-Monitoring Scale and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Chinese revision toexplore the correlation between self-monitoring and impulsivity, and discussed the impulsivecharacteristics of self-monitors preliminary. Subsequently, over27%of the subjects who gothigh score in the test of―Self-Monitoring Scale‖were filtered out to make up three types ofself-monitor (26other-oriented monitors,26self-oriented monitors,24high self-monitors).Then all subjects participated in the experiment of impulsive behavior. In the study2, wetested the impulsive decision-making strategies of self-monitors through Iowa Gambling Task(IGT); and in the study3, Cued go/no-go task was tested to measure the behavioralinhibition of self-monitors. The results summarized as follows:（1） Self-monitoring had correlation with impulsivity significantly. Among them, theother-oriented had positively correlation with motor impulsivity, cognitive impulsivity andnon-planned impulsivity; self-oriented had positively correlation with motor impulsivity, andnegatively correlated with cognitive impulsivity and unplanned impulsivity significantly;high self-monitoring had negatively correlated with motor impulsivity, cognitive impulsivityand unplanned impulsivity.（2） Other-oriented monitors have impaired decision-making, who showed lowdecision making performance, improper decision strategy change, there is " immediateincome priority " effect, characterized by a high risk tolerance; other-oriented monitors haveparts of impaired decision making, there is " immediate income priority " effect whichappears good decision making performance. While high self-monitors exhibit gooddecision-making performance, they can change positive decision-making strategies rapidly. （3） Self-monitoring can affect the individual’s impulsive behavior which as anpersonality tendency to coordinate self and environment.（4） Impulsive decision-making is one of behavioral mechanisms of self-monitors.Therefore, other-oriented monitor represents cognitive impulsivity and non-plannedimpulsivity.（5） Different types of self-monitor generally could inhibit impulsive reactions verywell, but other-oriented monitor and self-oriented monitor were need more time to ensure asuccessful inhibiting behavior.