International Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry
Year : 2014, Volume : 2, Issue : 1
First page : ( 30) Last page : ( 36)
Online ISSN : 2320-6233.
Article DOI : 10.5958/j.2320-6233.2.1.005

Self-worth Protection, Feedback and Gender as Factors in Problem-Solving Task

Gupta Sandhya

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Online published on 3 April, 2014.

Abstract

The present study focuses on self-worth protective students who strategically withdraw effort in situations which forebode failure and thereby damage to self-worth. Self-worth protection scale by was administered to identify the self-worth protective students. The sample of the study consisted of 40 students of XI standard, out of which 40 were detected as self-worth protective students. A 2 (Self-worth protection: high and low) x 2(Feedback: face saving and non-face saving) x 2 (Gender: male and female) factorial design was used. Results showed the significant impact of different levels of self-worth protection, gender and feedback conditions on the time taken and number of successful completions in solving the line drawing task.

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Keywords

Feedback, Gender, Time Taken and Number of Successful Completions, Self-worth Protection.

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