According to Identity Theory (IT), identity-inconsistent feedback is associated with negative affect and motivation to change the situation to match identity. Responses to identity-relevant feedback from others remains an understudied IT tenet. The affective and self-presentational responses of high-identity exercisers provided with identity confirming or disconfirming feedback in the presence of another person were examined in a randomized experiment. MANCOVA procedures revealed that compared to confirmed individuals, disconfirmed individuals demonstrated greater negative affect, desire to self-present, and attempts to self-present. Regression analyses determined that among disconfirmed individuals, satisfaction with self-presentation was negatively related to negative affect. Findings support IT predictions.
KEYWORDS: identity; Identity Theory; affect; role of the other; public; self-presentation; MANCOVA; bivariate regression
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/28816 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Stadig, Gwenyth S |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 169 p. |
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