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