A study of adolescents, conducted by Assor & Tai, 2012, found that when their mothers used conditional positive self-regard to reward them for academic achievement, and punish them for non-achievement, _____
a. they functioned freely
b. they did not evaluate their behaviors and attitudes carefully
c. their development was encouraged by fully actualizing the self
d. their feelings of self-worth became erratic
ANS: D
FEEDBACK: A study of adolescents found that when their mothers used conditional positive self-regard to reward them for academic achievement, and punish them for non-achievement, their feelings of self-worth became erratic. When they got good grades, for example, they behaved in self-aggrandizing ways. But when they did not get good grades, they felt shame and tend to downplay or devalue their sense of self-worth (Assor & Tai, 2012).
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