Abstract: | Monitoring and recording one's own behavior is often an effective way to change that behavior. 86 undergraduates chose to modify either a desirable behavioral deficit or an undesirable behavioral excess. Ss were instructed to monitor either the target behavior itself or a competing response, namely, its nonoccurrence. The predicted interaction between style of monitoring and the deficit or excess status of the target behavior did not occur. Instead, monitoring the target behavior per se was the most effective tactic and produced the lowest dropout rate and greatest maintenance of self-monitoring at follow-up. (11 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |