TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-consciousness, outcome expectancy, and persistence
AU - Scheier, Michael F.
AU - Carver, Charles S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Preparation of this report was facilitated by National Science Foundation Grants BNS 80-21859 and BNS 81-07236. Reprint requests should be directed to Michael F. Scheier, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
PY - 1982/12
Y1 - 1982/12
N2 - A study investigated persistence as a function of two variables: the disposition to be self-attentive (called private self-consciousness) and outcome feedback on a prior task that was described as closely related to the target task. More specifically, subjects first completed a concealed-figures test and were told that their performances were either very good or very poor. The second test, which ostensibly measured the same abilities, was an insolvable design problem that is commonly used to measure persistence. Feedback concerning prior outcomes had a direct influence on expectancies for the second task, but persistence on that task was a joint function of feedback and self-consciousness. That is, favorable feedback led to greater persistence than did unfavorable feedback, but only among subjects high in self-consciousness. This finding replicates and extends the results of several previous studies. Discussion centers on the relationship between the present research and an earlier experiment which yielded apparently different results.
AB - A study investigated persistence as a function of two variables: the disposition to be self-attentive (called private self-consciousness) and outcome feedback on a prior task that was described as closely related to the target task. More specifically, subjects first completed a concealed-figures test and were told that their performances were either very good or very poor. The second test, which ostensibly measured the same abilities, was an insolvable design problem that is commonly used to measure persistence. Feedback concerning prior outcomes had a direct influence on expectancies for the second task, but persistence on that task was a joint function of feedback and self-consciousness. That is, favorable feedback led to greater persistence than did unfavorable feedback, but only among subjects high in self-consciousness. This finding replicates and extends the results of several previous studies. Discussion centers on the relationship between the present research and an earlier experiment which yielded apparently different results.
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U2 - 10.1016/0092-6566(82)90002-2
DO - 10.1016/0092-6566(82)90002-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038638686
VL - 16
SP - 409
EP - 418
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
SN - 0092-6566
IS - 4
ER -