Impact of self-monitoring

While people tend to be high or low self-monitoring in general, self-monitoring may also vary depending on the situation.

Some signs of self-monitoring include:

• Saying things at social gatherings to garner attention or approval from others

If you want to use self-monitoring to change your behaviors, there are things that you can do to identify, measure, and evaluate your own behaviors:

• identify a target behavior: Pick a specific behavior that you want to monitor and change. 

• Being nervous and anxious makes us turn our attention inward, thus becoming extremely self-conscious of what we say and how we appear.
• Social anxiety also makes us become increasingly nervous when we notice the subtle audience reactions or the body language...