Machin, Tanya 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4358-2149
(2012)
Threat and opportunity: The impact of social inclusion and feedback recipient likeability on feedback, self-esteem and belongingness.
Honours thesis,
University of Southern Queensland.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
The aim of the current study was to extend previous research on feedback giving behaviour by investigating whether (a) recalling a previous experience of social inclusion or exclusion prior to providing performance feedback to a likeable or less likeable feedback recipient impacts on performance evaluations, and (b) people experience a change in selfesteem and belongingness after delivering feedback. Two hundred and forty-one participants (N = 241) consisting of both first year psychology students and volunteer community members took part in the online study. Participants were asked to either recall a previous experience of social inclusion, social exclusion or what they had eaten in the past 48 hours (control). They were then asked to evaluate a book review attributed to either a likeable or relatively less likeable target. Hypotheses 1 and 2 were not supported such that performance feedback was not positively modified regardless of feedback recipient likeability. Hypothesis 3 was not supported such that self-esteem and belongingness did not increase after delivery of performance feedback. However, subsequent analyses demonstrated that there is a complex interaction between the social inclusion manipulation and feedback recipient likeability on changes in self-esteem and belongingness after delivery of feedback. The theoretical implications of the findings as well as the practical implications will be discussed in-depth.
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Carla Jeffries |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2025 22:46 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2025 22:46 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | likeability ; self-esteem ; belongingness ; performance feedback |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52519 |
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