This study was conducted to provide further validation for the Silencing the Self Scale and to assess the relationship between scores on self-silencing, sex, and achievement motivation. In addition the present study tested whether sex would moderate the relationship between self-silencing and achievement motivation. For the sample of 113 community college participants, 85 women and 28 men, a significant relationship between scores on self-silencing and achievement motivation was found for both men and women. Sex did not moderate the relationship, nor were differences found between men and women on self-silencing or on achievement motivation.
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