{"id":208,"date":"2025-09-15T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressueni.com\/liberated-mind\/?p=208"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:09:12","slug":"what-is-the-effect-of-how-parents-provide-feedback-on-their-childrens-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressueni.com\/liberated-mind\/blog\/what-is-the-effect-of-how-parents-provide-feedback-on-their-childrens-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Effect of How Parents Provide Feedback on Their Children&#8217;s Performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is it wise to praise your child&#8217;s intelligence if he has a high grade? And how do you react if your child comes home with an unsatisfactory grade? Do you say something about your child&#8217;s abilities? Or is it wiser to say or ask about how your child has learned? A new study by Barger et al. (2022) provides some helpful answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research by Mueller &amp; Dweck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A classic study of mindset theory by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressfocused.com\/2020\/09\/mueller-dweck-1998-classic-study.html\">Claudia Mueller &amp; Carol Dweck (1998)<\/a>&nbsp;has shown that the way children receive feedback can hinder their performance. In experiments, they showed that giving person (or trait) compliments leads to children:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>became more focused on displaying their capabilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>avoided challenges after failure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>subsequently had less pleasure in challenging tasks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>performed less well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research on feedback from parents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite a bit of research has been done on parental feedback on the successes their children have achieved. Less research has been done on parent feedback after their children&#8217;s failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdfdirect\/10.1111\/cdev.13834\">Barger et al. (2022)<\/a>&nbsp;conducted a study comparing the effects of person and process compliments on math achievement by parents to their children. They also measured parents&#8217; and children&#8217;s beliefs about math: whether it&#8217;s something you can learn through effort (this is called a growth mindset) or something you can only learn if you have an aptitude (this is called a fixed mindset).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current study used a new parent reporting measure to examine parents&#8217; person and process responses to children&#8217;s success and failure in math. This measuring instrument made a reliable distinction between the person and process reactions of parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Person-oriented responses were less common than process-oriented responses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Person-centered responses were less likely to be associated with a growth mindset about math and a belief that you can learn from mistakes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The more parents gave person-oriented responses to their children&#8217;s math achievements (particularly failure), the more fearful their children became about math, the more they avoided challenging math, and the worse their math performance was a year later.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Process-oriented responses did not predict the children&#8217;s performance in this study<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This research suggests that it is wise as a parent to avoid person-oriented comments (about intelligence or aptitude) as much as possible about your child&#8217;s performance (especially in the case of poor results).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\u2026 for parents with a fixed mindset it feels obvious to give feedback in person-oriented terms. That is why it seems wise to invest in developing a growth mindset of parents. This will help them make their feedback more process-oriented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:&nbsp;<em>Progressfocused<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a bit of research has been done on parental feedback on the successes their children have achieved. 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