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How and why people accept personality feedback.
Journal of Personality Assessment
|October 1, 1980
Summary
This study found that personality feedback is primarily accepted due to its perceived accuracy, influencing self-perceptions. Persuasibility also played a role in feedback acceptance among undergraduates.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Social Psychology
Background:
- Understanding feedback acceptance is crucial in various fields, including psychology and marketing.
- Previous models have explored factors influencing how individuals receive and process information about themselves.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine a model of feedback acceptance based on response sets and perceived accuracy/persuasiveness.
- To investigate the relationship between personality, feedback accuracy, persuasibility, and acceptance.
Main Methods:
- 120 undergraduates completed personality inventories.
- Participants rated the accuracy of personality interpretations.
- A model incorporating yea-saying response sets and accuracy/persuasiveness explanations was tested.
Main Results:
- The model accurately reflected feedback acceptance patterns.
- Feedback accuracy was the simplest predictor of acceptance.
- Participants adjusted their self-perceptions to align with the feedback.
- Contrary to hypotheses, persuasibility did influence feedback acceptance.
Conclusions:
- Personality feedback acceptance is strongly linked to its perceived accuracy.
- Self-perceptions are malleable and can be influenced by accepted feedback.
- Individual differences in persuasibility warrant further consideration in feedback acceptance research.