What is the correlation between self-monitoring and the Big 5 factors of personality? Self-monitoring as a trait refers to a tendency "to closely monitor an audience in order to ensure appropriate or desired public appearances". It is commonly measured using the Revised Self-Monitoring Scale (e.g., Snyder and Gangestad, 1986)

Questions


What is the correlation between self-monitoring and the Big 5 factors of personality? 
To what extent is there overlap? 
Which Big 5 factor is most related to self-monitoring?


References

Snyder, M., &amp; Gangestad, S. (1986). On the nature of self-monitoring: matters of assessment, matters of validity. Journal of personality and social psychology, 51(1), 125.
I did a quick search and found the following: 

Barrick et al (2005) (see Table 1). In a sample with a little over a hundred MBA students they obtained the following correlations with self-monitoring:


Conscientiousness r = -.24
Extraversion r = .31
Agreeableness r = -.08
Emotional Stability  r = -.10
Openness r = .23


Kring, Smith, and Neale (1994) (see Table 3): Correlations with self-monitoring were (I think in a sample of 300+ undergraduates):


Surgency (somewhat similar to extraversion): .51
Agreeableness: r = .06
Conscientiousness: r = -.15
Emotional Stability: r = .37


This would suggest that self-monitoring has only a weak relationship with the Big 5. 

The positive relationship with extraversion makes sense given that self-monitoring is related to an aptitude and an interest in adaptive social interactions.

References


Barrick, M. R., Parks, L., &amp; Mount, M. K. (2005). Self‐monitoring as a moderator of the relationships between personality traits and performance. Personnel Psychology, 58(3), 745-767.
Kring, A. M., Smith, D. A., &amp; Neale, J. M. (1994). Individual differences in dispositional expressiveness: development and validation of the Emotional Expressivity Scale. Journal of personality and social psychology, 66(5), 934.