The Effects of Performance Feedback on Behavioral Self-Monitoring

Abstract

Self-monitoring is a process in which an individual observes and records their own behavior. In the field of behavior analysis, there is limited research on behavioral self-monitoring (BSM) and the components that are necessary to maintain its effects. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to identify effects of implementing a feedback intervention with BSM on participants’ compliance in completing BSM tasks. Participants were three undergraduate students at a southeastern university who self-monitored their own safe driving behaviors in their personal vehicles. The independent variable was the implementation of a feedback intervention and the dependent variable was compliance with BSM tasks. Our results indicate that implementing BSM supplemented with weekly feedback results in an increase in compliance with BSM which could potentially increase safe behaviors without direct supervision being a necessity