Enhancing Feelings: The role of social feedback and self-esteem on emotions

1 / 30 Abstract 2 / 30 This study aimed to investigate how feedback influences affective updating and self-perception in healthy adolescents. Adolescence is characterized by significant developmental changes and an important developmental stage for the formation of identity. This identifies formation plays a crucial role in shaping self-esteem and self-confidence. Adolescents compare their self-perception with that of others to explore their identity, relying on their self-confidence as a guiding factor. The way adolescents respond to feedback can significantly influence their self-perception. Affective updating of feelings is the process through which adolescents adapt their emotions in response to feedback, and it plays a vital role in maintaining beliefs about their shortcomings and negative feelings towards self-perception, particularly among anxious adolescents. To explore these dynamics, a social-evaluative speech performance task will be conducted. Eighty adolescents aged 12...Show more1 / 30 Abstract 2 / 30 This study aimed to investigate how feedback influences affective updating and self-perception in healthy adolescents. Adolescence is characterized by significant developmental changes and an important developmental stage for the formation of identity. This identifies formation plays a crucial role in shaping self-esteem and self-confidence. Adolescents compare their self-perception with that of others to explore their identity, relying on their self-confidence as a guiding factor. The way adolescents respond to feedback can significantly influence their self-perception. Affective updating of feelings is the process through which adolescents adapt their emotions in response to feedback, and it plays a vital role in maintaining beliefs about their shortcomings and negative feelings towards self-perception, particularly among anxious adolescents. To explore these dynamics, a social-evaluative speech performance task will be conducted. Eighty adolescents aged 12 to 17 years engaged in a simulated social-evaluating setting, self-evaluated their performance, and received feedback from expert judges. Participants then indicated their emotional state after receiving the feedback. Using computational modeling we examined the affective updating of self-feelings response to positive and negative performance feedback. Additionally, regression analyses were conducted to explore the relationship between self-confidence and affective updating of feelings. This study contributes to our understanding of the psychological processes involved in self-perception and affective updating in healthy adolescents. The findings may have implications for interventions and support strategies aimed at fostering positive self-perception and emotional adjustment during adolescence. By understanding the impact of feedback on adolescents' affective responses and self-perception, we can provide valuable insights into their emotional well-being and development. Keywords: Social feedback 3 / 30 Affective updating Self-image Self-esteem Adolescents Speech task Layman’s summary During adolescence (12-17 years), there are numerous changes, including the development of one's own identity. Self-perception and self-confidence play a crucial role during this stage. Adolescents compare their self-perception with that of others to discover who they are, relying on their self-confidence. Self-confidence evaluates the value they place on their self-perception. The way adolescents respond to feedback influences their self-perception. The process through which adolescents adjust their emotions after receiving feedback is known as affective updating of feelings. This phenomenon plays a significant role in maintaining beliefs about their shortcomings and negative feelings related to self-perception, particularly among anxious adolescents. Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common disorders among adolescents. Adolescents with social anxiety disorder often have low self-confidence and are more sensitive to negative feedback, struggling with rejecting such feedback. However, we were specifically interested in understanding how this process works in healthy adolescents. We aimed to determine whether positive or negative feedback has a greater impact on affective updating of feelings. Additionally, we wanted to investigate whether the level of self-confidence had any relationship with how adolescents affectively update their feelings in response to positive and negative feedback. We aimed to achieve this by replicating a social-evaluative speech task with 80 healthy adolescents.Show less

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Enhancing Feelings: The role of social feedback and self-esteem on emotions