The stategy of self-presentation to an opposite-sex person : Effects of the physical attractiveness and importance of self-concept in self-presentational dilemma

イセイ ニ タイスル ジコ テイジ ホウリャク ニ カンスル ジッケンテキ ケンキュウ ジコ テイジ ジレンマ ジョウキョウ ニ オケル ミリョクド ト ジュウヨウド ノ コウカ

タニグチ, ジュンイチ

Taniguchi, Junichi

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

デート行動

外見的魅力

自己呈示ジレンマ状況

セルフモニタリング

self-presentation

dating behavior

physical attractiveness

self-presentational dilemma

self-monitoring

This study examined how male subjects who expected to meet a female stranger present themselves in self-presentational dilemma that they felt discrepancy between the self-concept and the stranger’s value. Two factors, the importance of self-concept and female stranger’s physical attractiveness, were operated and a viewpoint of the self-monitoring was added as another factor. Participants were 40 male undergraduate and graduate students. The results demonstrated that participants presented to fit unimportant self-concept to the female stranger’s value rather than important one, even though they did not change their self-presentational strategies because of the stranger’s attractiveness. Moreover, it was revealed that high self-monitors presented to fit unimportant self-concept to the stranger’s value than did low self-monitors. The results suggested that in self-presentational dilemma, whether male conducted self-presentation to fit to female value was affected by not only her physical attraction, but also the expectation of future interaction with her.