DOSLJEDNOST SAMOPREDSTAVLJANJA POJMU PRIVATNOGA SEBE
CONSISTENCY OF SELF-PRESENTATION WITH THE NOTION OF PRIVATE SELF

Summary/Abstract: In this paper consisting of two studies the author attempts to establish to which extent the self-presentation of people is consistent with the private notion they have of themselves, since some of the previous research on self-presentation does not provide unambiguous answers to this question. In the first study, 139 examinees assess the notion of private self and mode of self-presentation using a larger number of adjectives of different social desirability in completely anonimous conditions. In the second study 145 examinees assess the notion of private self in anonimous circumstances, whereas the mode of self-presentation is assessed by signing a protocol and receiving instruction that introduces group discussion on these assessments. The aim of the latter is to determine whether the introduction of the variable of publicity, operationalised through demands for signatures and hints of group discussion, can influence the assessment of modes of self-presentation. The results obtained indicate that a statistically significant difference in assessments has appeared and that the attribution of specific traits as more characteristic of the notion of self and others as more characteristic of the mode of self-presentation depends on the social desirability of these traits.

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