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Private and Public Self-Processes

A Return to James's Constituents of the Self

Virginia Commonwealth University

Mark R. Leary

Wake Forest University

William James's distinction between the social self and the spiritual self is reflected in contemporary discussions of the public and private selves. This study examined the relationships among four measures of public and private self-processes: self-monitoring, self-consciousness, identity orientation, and exogenic-endogenic orientation. Results supported James's essential distinction between public and private self-processes and showed that the public and private selves are best conceptualized as bidimensional rather than as opposite poles of a single continuum. Furthermore, self-monitoring, as currently measured, appears to be associated primarily with the public self.

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