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Autonomy and self-talk on problem-solving
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Date Issued
2017
Citation
Lam, Y. H., & Zhou, D. (2017 Jun 29). Autonomy and self-talk on problem-solving. SCAP 2017, Singapore.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This study to investigate how autonomy and different pronominal person self-talk may affect
people’s performance of well-structured problems.
A total of 111(69 female and 42 male) young adults were randomly assigned to different
groups of the 2 (autonomy-supportive vs. Non-autonomy) x3 (I-self talk, You-self talk,
Control group) experiment. In this study, we recorded the task accuracy, subjective interest
and intention (9 point Likert scale) toward the task switching paradigm.
Statistical results showed that participants turn to be more accurate in the you-self talk group
than in the I self-talk group and control group. Inconsistent with previous findings, we also
found that non-autonomy group showed statistically significant more interests in doing the
task than the autonomy-supportive group. Related updated studies and Chinese culture were
used to explore the interesting findings and discuss the implications. The sensitivity to the
power and hierarchical order play an important role in explaining the research results.
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