The Self-Reflection and Insight Scale: A new measure of private self-consciousness

By Adam M. Grant, J. Franklin, P. Langford. 2002

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Private self-consciousness and the subordinate constructs of self-reflection and insight are key factors in the self-regulatory process underpinning the creation of behavior change, both in clinical practice with clinical populations, and in performance enhancing coaching with nonclinical populations. This paper reports the construction and validation of the SelfReflection and Insight Scale (SRIS) which is designed to be an advance on the Private SelfConsciousnes Scale (PrSCS; Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975). Previous work has found the PrSCS to comprise two factors, self-reflection and internal state awareness. In a series of studies two separate factor analyses found the SRIS comprised two separate factors labeled Self-Reflection (SRIS-SR) and Insight (SRIS-IN). “Need for self-reflection” and “engagement in self-reflection” loaded on the same factor. Test-retest reliability over a 7-week period was .77 (SRIS-SR) and .78 (SRIS-IN). The PrSCS correlated positively with the SRIS-SR and negatively with the SRIS-IN. The SRIS-SR correlated positively with anxiety and stress, but not with depression and alexithymia. The SRIS-IN was negatively correlated with depression, anxiety, stress and alexithymia, and positively correlated with cognitive flexibility and self-regulation. Individuals who had kept diaries had higher SRIS-SR scores but lower SRISIN scores than did those who had not kept diaries. Implications of these findings for models of self-regulation and goal attainment are discussed.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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THE IMPACT OF LIFE COACHING ON GOAL ATTAINMENT, METACOGNITION AND MENTAL HEALTH (2003, neutral): “Grant et al. (2002) found that individuals who regularly kept journals in which they wrote about their life experiences had higher levels of self-reflection, but lower levels of insight than did individuals who did not keep journals.”
Mental Health Smartphone Apps: Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations for Future Developments (2016, positive): “This tool comprises 33 items, all rated on a scale from 0 (never) to 4 (a lot), and was adapted from the 20-item Self-Reflection and Insight Scale [294], the 10-item Ruminative Response Scale [295], and the 12-item Meta-Evaluation Scale [296].”
Self-care and Well-being in Mental Health Professionals: The Mediating Effects of Self-awareness and Mindfulness (2010, methodology): “The Self-Reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS; Grant et al., 2002) has two subscales, self-reflection and insight.”
Evaluating self-reflection and insight as self-conscious traits. (2011, methodology): “Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate /paid behavior’’ (Grant et al., 2002, p. 821), whereas insight refers to ‘‘the clarity of understanding of one’s thoughts, feelings and behavior’’ (p. 821).”
The role of coachee characteristics in executive coaching for effective sustainability (2013, background): “(8) coachee self-awareness applied Grant et al.’s (2002) eight-item self insight measure (a1⁄4 0.”
Romantic competence, healthy relationship functioning, and well‐being in emerging adults (2017, methodology): “81 for insight) was assessed with the SRIS (Grant et al., 2002).”
Self-Awareness and the Evolution of Leaders: The Need for a Better Measure of Self-Awareness (2012, result): “Note also that Grant et al. (2002) included insight in their measure of self-awareness and that the insight dimension of their scale was positively correlated with the present self-awareness measure.”
The impact of cognitive flexibility on resistance to organizational change (2012, background): “Internal state awareness and insight are connected to the ability to identify and express personal feelings (Grant et al., 2002).”
The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI (2023, background): “Prospective Self-report [72] Users report their perceived strengths and weaknesses.”
Autonomy support, relationship satisfaction and goal focus in the coach–coachee relationship: which best predicts coaching success? (2014, neutral): “The scale has a reported Cronbach’s alpha of 0.81 and a test–retest reliability of 0.78 (Grant et al., 2002).”
Insight, but not self-reflection, is related to subjective well-being (2009, background): “Self-reflection as measured by this instrument has not been found to be so closely related to rumination as the self-reflection subscale of the PrSCS (Grant et al., 2002).”