Individual Feedback Propensities and Their Effects on Motivation, Training Success, and Performance
Abstract
This research project had as its goal the development, validation, and field testing of new measures of individual differences that assess people's propensities to seek, generate, or interpret performance feedback information in a particular way. Specifically, based on preliminary work, it was thought that internal and external propensities exist that make individuals more or less likely to prefer, rely on, seek, or attend to primarily internally or externally generated performance cues. These propensities, if identified and measured, would be related to skill acquisition, performance improvement, self regulatory processes, performance maintenance, as well as a variety of affective and cognitive responses to performance settings based on the interaction of the performer's feedback predispositions and the characteristics of the feedback available. In summary, this study proposed to help one better understand the role of dispositions in explaining how different individuals go about shaping their feedback environment, processing feedback information, and responding to such information. The driving belief behind this line of research has been that individuals differ in ways that are specific to their orientation toward performance feedback situations, and that such differences, if identified and appropriately measured, would be valuable in better understanding the links between feedback and performance as well as other outcomes of interest.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA337479
Entities
People
- Charles K. Parsons
- David M. Herols
- Donald B. Fedor
Organizations
- Georgia Tech