TY - JOUR
T1 - The Influence of Negative Feedback and Social Rank on Feelings of Shame and Guilt
T2 - A Vignette Study in 8- to 13-Year-Old Non-Clinical Children
AU - Hendriks, Eline
AU - Muris, Peter
AU - Meesters, Cor
N1 - Funding Information:
The primary schools “BS De Cramignon”, “OBS De Regenboog”, “OBS De Robbedoes”, “OBS De Spiegel”, “BS Suringar”, and “BS De Triangel”, in the south- eastern part of the Netherlands, are kindly thanked for their participation. Data was gathered by the help of master students Nikki Geraerts, Laura Koster, Efri den Teuling, and Rose-Lynn van Tilburg.
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© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - This experimental study examined the role of negative feedback and social rank in the experience of self-conscious emotions, shame and guilt, in typically developing children aged 8 to 13 years. Participants were tested by means of a vignette paradigm in which feedback and social rank were systematically manipulated and levels of shame and guilt were assessed after listening to each of the vignettes. In addition, children completed a set of questionnaires for measuring individual differences in shame and guilt proneness, social comparison, submissive behavior, and external shame. The results showed that children presented with negative feedback reported higher ratings of shame and guilt than when presented with positive feedback, implying that the provision of negative feedback has a significant impact on children's experience of self-conscious emotions. Social rank had less effect on children's report of these self-conscious emotions. Furthermore, the individual difference variables of guilt proneness, and to a lesser extent shame proneness and submissive behavior, appeared to be positively related to self-conscious emotions as reported during the vignette task.
AB - This experimental study examined the role of negative feedback and social rank in the experience of self-conscious emotions, shame and guilt, in typically developing children aged 8 to 13 years. Participants were tested by means of a vignette paradigm in which feedback and social rank were systematically manipulated and levels of shame and guilt were assessed after listening to each of the vignettes. In addition, children completed a set of questionnaires for measuring individual differences in shame and guilt proneness, social comparison, submissive behavior, and external shame. The results showed that children presented with negative feedback reported higher ratings of shame and guilt than when presented with positive feedback, implying that the provision of negative feedback has a significant impact on children's experience of self-conscious emotions. Social rank had less effect on children's report of these self-conscious emotions. Furthermore, the individual difference variables of guilt proneness, and to a lesser extent shame proneness and submissive behavior, appeared to be positively related to self-conscious emotions as reported during the vignette task.
KW - Self-conscious emotions
KW - Shame and guilt
KW - Negative feedback
KW - Social rank
KW - Children
U2 - 10.1007/s10578-021-01143-4
DO - 10.1007/s10578-021-01143-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 33616858
SN - 0009-398X
VL - 53
SP - 458
EP - 468
JO - Child Psychiatry & Human Development
JF - Child Psychiatry & Human Development
IS - 3
ER -