Self-Awareness, Mental Imagery and Cognitive Mediation

The present study was carried out to empirically test the hypothesis of cognitive mediation of self-awareness through mental imagery and the relations of iconic mediation with visualization skills. It also examined the psychometric qualities of the Situational Self-Awareness Scale and the Visualization Test (Mental Imagery Skills) with its two independent series - Self and Non-Self, enabling their use in future research. The complete ex post facto study was conducted with 958 university students, who answered the instruments individually or collectively. The data were analyzed using factor analysis procedure, Pearson correlation coefficient, linear regression technique and multi dimensional analysis. The analyses corroborate the hypothesis of cognitive mediation of self-awareness through mental imagery and that iconic mediation has a consistent relationship with the level of development of imagery skills.