Impact of esteem-related feedback on mood, self-efficacy, and attribution of success: Self-enhancement/self-protection |
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Authors: | Michael McCarrey |
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Institution: | (1) School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, 651 Cumberland, K1N 6N5 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | It is suggested that positive ego-enhancing and negative ego-diminishing feedback conditions concerning social perceptiveness
can give rise to altered affective states concerning self-esteem that generalize to other areas of cognitive functioning in
such a way that this feedback accompanies a systematic self-serving attributional bias of cognitive/intellectual performance.
The results of 40 participants in an ego-enhancing and 45 in an ego-diminishing feedback condition indicate more attribution
of problem-solving success by the first group to effort and to ease of the task; participants who received ego-diminishing
feedback attributed their initial problem-solving success less to ease of the task. Other more direct evidence of self-protective
strategies on the part of those in the ego-diminishing feedback condition includes lower success expecta y on retest and reduced
volunteering for additional challenge. The results are interpreted as evidence of the impact of generalized esteem-related
affect on future success expectancy, on risk-taking, and on the attribution of success when future replication is a boundary
condition. |
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