Better to keep a negative self-perception than ask for feedback? - How depressive symptoms are associated with the desire for social feedback

IF 4.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Behaviour Research and Therapy Pub Date : 2025-09-21 DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2025.104872

Edith Rapo , Christopher Milde , Julia Anna Glombiewski , Tobias Kube

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Abstract

Background

We investigated whether depressive symptom severity is associated with incongruence between how people perceive themselves (self-perception) and how they expect others to perceive them (meta-perception). We also examined whether these discrepancies explain feedback-seeking. We hypothesized that elevated depressive symptoms are related to low preference for positive and self-incongruent feedback and high preference for negative and self-congruent feedback.

Method

In study 1 (N = 149), we presented 20 positive and 20 negative traits. For each trait, participants rated their self- and meta-perception. In study 2 (N = 212), we presented the same traits. In addition to their self- and meta-perception, participants indicated their desire to receive other people's feedback for each trait.

Results

In study 1, depressive symptom severity was related to a higher incongruence between self- and meta-perception, as participants’ self-perception was more negative than their meta-perception. Study 2 indicated that depressive symptom severity was related to less feedback-seeking. Incongruence between self-and meta-perception and valence did not moderate the relationship between depressive symptoms and feedback-seeking.

Conclusion

Depressive symptoms are associated with incongruence between self- and meta-perception and reduced feedback-seeking. However, incongruence between self- and meta-perception and valence did not explain reduced feedback-seeking in depression, emphasizing the importance to further investigate the causes for feedback avoidance in depression.

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保持消极的自我认知比寻求反馈更好吗？-抑郁症状与渴望社会反馈之间的关系

背景：我们调查了抑郁症状的严重程度是否与人们如何感知自己（自我感知）和他们如何期望他人感知自己（元感知）之间的不一致性有关。我们还研究了这些差异是否解释了反馈寻求。我们假设抑郁症状的升高与对积极和自我不一致反馈的低偏好和对消极和自我一致反馈的高偏好有关。方法：在研究1 （N = 149）中，采用20个阳性性状和20个阴性性状。对于每个特征，参与者对他们的自我和元知觉进行评分。在研究2 （N = 212）中，我们表现出相同的性状。除了他们的自我认知和元认知之外，参与者还表示他们希望收到其他人对每个特质的反馈。结果：在研究1中，抑郁症状的严重程度与自我知觉与元知觉之间的不一致性相关，被试的自我知觉比元知觉更负性。研究2显示抑郁症状严重程度与反馈寻求较少相关。自我、元知觉和效价之间的不一致并不能调节抑郁症状与反馈寻求之间的关系。结论：抑郁症状与自我知觉与元知觉不一致、反馈寻求减少有关。然而，自我知觉与元知觉和效价之间的不一致并不能解释抑郁症中反馈寻求减少的原因，这强调了进一步研究抑郁症中反馈回避的原因的重要性。

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Behaviour Research and Therapy PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

CiteScore

7.50

自引率

7.30%

发文量

148

期刊介绍： The major focus of Behaviour Research and Therapy is an experimental psychopathology approach to understanding emotional and behavioral disorders and their prevention and treatment, using cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological (including neural) methods and models. This includes laboratory-based experimental studies with healthy, at risk and subclinical individuals that inform clinical application as well as studies with clinically severe samples. The following types of submissions are encouraged: theoretical reviews of mechanisms that contribute to psychopathology and that offer new treatment targets; tests of novel, mechanistically focused psychological interventions, especially ones that include theory-driven or experimentally-derived predictors, moderators and mediators; and innovations in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices into clinical practice in psychology and associated fields, especially those that target underlying mechanisms or focus on novel approaches to treatment delivery. In addition to traditional psychological disorders, the scope of the journal includes behavioural medicine (e.g., chronic pain). The journal will not consider manuscripts dealing primarily with measurement, psychometric analyses, and personality assessment.