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Help Seeking: Effects of Visibility of Task Performance and Seeking Help
Author(s) -
Shapiro E. Gary
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1978.tb00774.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , neuroticism , visibility , social psychology , help seeking , applied psychology , personality , mental health , computer science , management , psychiatry , physics , optics , economics , programming language
This study manipulated independently whether help seeking and task performance were public or private, since in public settings persons may lose esteem by seeking help or by demonstrating unsuccessful performance. Subjects were given false feedback that they were doing poorly on a task involving judging levels of neuroticism in others, and were given all opportunity to seek help by consulting a set of guidelines. The main result was an interaction with help seeking most likely when task performance was public and help seeking was private.