The Overpowering Effect of Social Comparison Information On the Misalignment Between Mastery-Based Goals and Self-Evaluation Criteria  

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Leander, N. Pontus ; Yperen, Nico W. Van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 40 no. 5 (May 2014), page 676-688.
Topik: Achievement Goal; Temporal Comparison Goal Setting; Feedback; Motivation
Fulltext: Pers Soc Psychol Bull-2014-Van Yperen-676-88.pdf (474.61KB)

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If people’s goals and evaluative standards were aligned, then individuals with mastery-based goals should, theoretically, primarily rely on temporal comparison information (i.e., on how they performed relative to before). In contrast, individuals with performance-based goals should rely on social comparison information (i.e., on how they performed relative to others). However, across three studies, we explored a misalignment phenomenon we call “the overpowering effect of social comparison information” (TOESCI). We found that, irrespective of individuals’ specific achievement goal (performance-based vs. mastery-based), there is a consistent, dominant reliance on social comparisons over temporal comparisons in their performance self-evaluations. These findings suggest that one’s goals and evaluation criteria do not always align—that explicitly endorsing mastery-based goals does not necessarily lead one to rely on temporal comparison information over social comparison information. Only after receiving an explicit reminder to consider their mastery-based goal did participants align their goal and performance self-evaluation criteria.

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