By the Numbers: Structure-seeking Individuals Prefer Quantitative Over Qualitative Representations of Personal Value to Compensate for the Threat of Unclear Performance Contingencies  

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Sullivan, Daniel ; Landau, Mark J. ; Rothschild, Zachary K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 37 no. 11 (Nov. 2011), page 1508-1521.
Topik: Self-esteem; Information Seeking; Defensive Processes; Self-evaluation; Motivation and Performance
Fulltext: Pers Soc Psychol Bull-2011-Rothschild-1508-21-Lph.pdf (460.98KB)

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What combination of dispositional and situational factors leads people to represent their personal value in quantitative terms (e.g., salary) rather than qualitative terms (e.g., virtue)? Integrating research on quantitative information seeking, dispositional epistemic motivation, and learned helplessness, the current article hypothesized that individuals high, but not low, in uncertainty avoidance (measured with the Personal Need for Structure Scale [PNS]) would prefer quantitative (over qualitative) value representations to compensate for the diminished self-esteem certainty caused by exposure to unclear performance contingencies. Accordingly, in Study 1 high-PNS participants exposed to unclear (vs. clear) performance contingencies in one domain (visual intelligence) preferred a quantitative value representation in another domain (verbal intelligence). Study 2 showed that this effect is mediated by self-esteem certainty, not self-esteem level. Study 3 included a failure feedback condition to further isolate the role of epistemic motivation, as distinct from self-enhancement motivation, in driving the tendency to quantify personal value.

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