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This scale would indicate participants' positive feelings between themselves and the examiner. The wording of several items on the questionnaire was changed slightly, for example, "therapist" was changed to "examiner." A different subscale was used to test the hypothesis that assessment feedback accelerates rapport building. Another subscale asked questions regarding participants perceptions about themselves were reaffirmed and they felt proud, secure, or important after the testing experience. The final subscale was used to further understand how assessment feedback enhances a sense of self-enhancement, particularly a sense of self-discovery. The results supported the authors hypotheses that providing assessment feedback results could have some therapeutic value. I though the study was positive because very few studies have systematically attempted to identify the processes or mechanisms underlying the observed outcomes.
The study concluded that personalized feedback was associated with processes related to initial establishment of rapport and to the enhancement of intra-individual states such as self-awareness and self-regard. However, the study had several limitations. The clearest limitation to me was that the participant sample mirrored a past study on the topic. I believe this was a strong limitation, because varied groups...
In this study, the results pertaining to rapport-building as a hypothesized underlying process were clear and consistent. Participants receiving feedback following an assessment felt a stronger rapport with their examiner and had fewer negative feelings about the assessment session than participants receiving no feedback. The study could have been conducted by using participants from two or more different colleges, or school settings. Even though the Florida university was chosen because it was a commuter college where the students would not talk amongst themselves about the study, there are other colleges that could be compared to each other that are located far enough from each other where the participants would have no interaction with other.
The results pertaining to self-enhancement as a hypothesized underlying process were also less consistent. Participants in the feedback condition did report a significantly greater sense of self-verification and self-efficacy/self-discovery than participants in the control condition. Consistent with previous research, they also scored higher on self-esteem and self-liking. I believe that future studies should take into account a larger population with varied ages and backgrounds. Additional research in this area is…
" Success over pretensions equals self-esteem." Albrecht (Ibid) cites that William James (1890) formulated the "simple" equation. Self-esteem, according to some psychologists qualifies as an answer for numerous individual and societal concerns. Regarding this contention and accumulated self-esteem research, Roy Baumeister, psychologist and professor, commissioned to survey American Psychological Society literature on self-esteem, determines: "These studies show not only that self-esteem fails to accomplish what we had hoped, but also that
Managing All Stakeholders in the Context of a Merger Process Review of the Relevant Literature Types of Mergers Identifying All Stakeholders in a Given Business Strategic Market Factors Driving Merger Activity Selection Process for Merger Candidates Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendations The Challenge of Managing All Stakeholders in the Context of a Merger Process Mergers and acquisitions became central features of organizational life in the last part of the 20th century, particularly as organizations seek to establish and
This is discussed at length by Fusick and Bordeau (2004) "...school-based counselors need to be aware of the disturbing inequities that exist in predominantly Afro-American urban school districts, where nearly 40% of Afro-American students attend school in the United States" (Fusick and Bordeau, 2004) This again places emphasis on the need for mental health programs in these areas of concern. This is also related to findings from a study
Autonomy-Supportive coaching style is more effective for female than male athletes in team sports. Gender (nominal) Gender is a concept which connects directly to the sense of how receptive or non-receptive humans are likely to be regarding all forms of coaching. Gender is one manifestation of the notion of how prosocial or anti-social human beings are likely to be. Some experts have argued that human beings are naturally inclined to be prosocial
66). Furthermore, social software will only increase in importance in helping organizations maintain and manage their domains of knowledge and information. When networks are enabled and flourish, their value to all users and to the organization increases as well. That increase in value is typically nonlinear, where some additions yield more than proportionate values to the organization (McCluskey and Korobow, 2009). Some of the key characteristics of social software applications
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