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Feedback Seeking in Children and Adolescents: Associations With Self‐Perceptions, Attachment Representations, and Depression
Author(s) -
Cassidy Jude,
Ziv Yair,
Mehta Tara G.,
Feeney Brooke C.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8624.7402019
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , developmental psychology , negative feedback , self concept , positive feedback , clinical psychology , social psychology , quantum mechanics , voltage , neuroscience , electrical engineering , engineering , physics
Because the feedback children and adolescents receive is important to their development, 2 experimental studies were designed to examine children's ( M =12 years) and adolescents' ( M =17 years) active selection of the quality of feedback they wish to receive. In both studies evidence emerged that participants' self‐perceptions influence their feedback seeking. Participants with positive self‐perceptions sought more positive feedback than participants with negative self‐perceptions and sought more positive feedback than expected by chance. Participants with negative self‐perceptions lacked this tendency to seek positive feedback and sometimes sought less positive feedback than expected by chance. As expected, depression and attachment‐related measures were also associated with participants’ feedback seeking. Contributions of feedback‐seeking patterns to stability and change in children's and adolescents' development are discussed.