self-report

American  

[self-ri-pawrt] / ˈsɛlf rɪˈpɔrt /

verb

self-reported, self-reporting

1. to report or give an account of (one's own actions, problems, feelings, etc.).

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adjective

1. relating to, used in, or obtained through a process in which people or organizations report on their own actions, problems, feelings, etc.

noun

• self-reports
  plural

1. a report made by a person or organization about their own actions, problems, feelings, etc., especially in a data-gathering context for psychological or social science research; the act of making such a report.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-reported
  adjective
• self-reportedly
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• self-reports
  plural

Example Sentences

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The organization had no investigators on staff and asked school administrators to look into complaints themselves and self-report any misconduct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Currently, many platforms rely on people who sign up to self-report their own ages.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

While he acknowledged the limitations of a study that relies on officers to self-report force, Ross said the results are significant.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

Investigators also collected a wealth of data from cognitive, functional and neuroimaging tests as well as self-report measures of psychological symptoms, including depression and anxiety.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Tenant groups have criticized the law for being difficult to prosecute because renters often need to self-report potential violations to local and state authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

This doesn’t prove they are conscious, but it shows these self-reports track the model’s truth-telling mechanisms, not random outputs the model learned to parrot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

United Utilities said some of its sewage releases into Windermere were "potentially non-compliant" but that it self-reports "over 94% of potential pollution incidents to the Environment Agency".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024

This data included self-reports from more than 31,000 women, 4,184 who underwent tubal sterilization.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024

The team made their anonymized data set publicly available -- including self-reports, surveys, and phone-sensing and brain-imaging data -- to help advance research into the mental health of students during their college years.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Annually, each company self-reports how it manages vegetation that could impact electrical operations, including the amount of brush and trees removed.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2022

Strength training was also self-reported, and the study couldn’t capture how hard people trained.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

Healthy life expectancy is not a perfect metric; it is self-reported and so relies on how people feel about their own health.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The majority of the studies on UPFs that make headlines are observational papers looking at associations between self-reported food intake and health outcomes—these tell us little about whether UPFs actually cause ill health.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

In several Western countries, self-reported loneliness among young adults appears to have risen over the past four or five decades; young adults report more loneliness than middle-aged or older adults.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

What’s more, the information on food insufficiency was self-reported and could be inaccurate.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Another Harvard survey shows young adults under 25 self-reporting anxiety at double the rate of teenagers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

The ratings are also “vulnerable to self-reporting bias,” they add.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

HM Senior Coroner for Lancashire Dr James Adeley pointed out that the UK was one of only three countries to rely on self-reporting of visual conditions affecting the ability to drive.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026

The scientific literature on the issue, however, is scant—just a few studies, the largest of which relied on hemorrhoid self-reporting rather than evaluations, which makes the results less reliable.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

The "self-reporting" system was the hobby of this man.

From The Evolution of Dodd by William Hawley Smith