Feb. 22 column
By Lisa Goudy
To my beloved sister who has interest in some areas of psychology, I wish you a beautiful birthday today.
Recently I came across a website called PsychTests.com.
The website offers a variety of psychological tests, including personality, IQ and career tests. I’ve never been into doing
those types of things, but nonetheless I was intrigued when I hear about their study comparing employees on their ability
to handle constructive criticism. The results are quite interesting and I think there are suggestions included we can take
to heart in our every day lives.
PsychTests.com is based in Montreal and for the study they surveyed 3,664 participants. It’s not a huge sample size considering
the Canadian population, but the results are most interesting anyway.
The survey indicated people’s responses to criticism based on six factors - negative thoughts toward the people criticizing
a person’s work, negative thoughts toward the self, negative emotional responses to others and to the self, negative overt
behaviours such as arguing, scowling or threatening to quit and negative or passive aggressive behaviours such as purposely
slacking off or ignoring criticism completely and not making any recommended changes.
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