自我监控性作为性别助长效应的干涉变量

采用双手调节器操作任务进一步验证“性别助长”假设。20个自我监控者与20个我行我素者(男女各半)分别按抵消顺序接受两种实验处理：男性观众和女性观众。结果表明，异性观众可以助长男性被试的操作速度，而削弱女性被试的操作速度；对于作业效绩也存在着同样的交互作用；自我监控性是性别助长效应的一个重要干涉变量，男自我监控者表现出明显的异性助长，女自我监控者表现出明显的异性抑制，而我行我素者没有表现出明显的观众效应。由于自我监控性对相应的异性效应有一种放大作用，可知性别助长效应的基础是以印象管理动机为主。

Self-monitoring As a Moderator Variable in Sex Facilitation Effect

This laboratory experiment employed a task of two-hand coordination. 20 high self-monitors and 20 low self-monitors were induced to accept two experimental treatments in random sequence: 1) Male audience; and 2) Female audience. The results showed an opposite-sex audience can facilitate males' speed and performance but impair females'. Self-monitoring was found as a moderator variable in sex facilitation effect which implied that male self-monitors were facilitated and female self-monitors were impaired on performance at the presence of an opposite-sex audience, while low self-monitors showed no audience effect. Since audience effect on self-monitors is magnified compared with low self-monitors, impression management is the motivational base of sex facilitation phenomenon.