Self-Monitoring and Competence as Determinants of Sex Differences in Social Interaction

Abstract

Male and female college students who had high or low task competence and high or low self-monitoring scores participated in two tasks; one male-oriented and one female-oriented. During the male-oriented task, high-competent males and low-competent females talked the most. During the female-oriented task, high-competent females and low-competent males talked the most. High self-monitors talked the most on the male-oriented task. On the female-oriented task, self-monitoring was not predictive of verbal activity.