How Feedback Intervention Affects the Performance of Self-Efficacy: An Eye Movement Study

Feedback intervention, especially the feedback valence, can affect people´s working performance. And as an important mediator variable, self-efficacy has a great influence on the effect of feedback valence. In present study, people with different level of self-efficacy were selected as subjects. We gave feedback according to the valence, and compared subjects´ performance and working efficiency. The present study used the eye movement tracing method to collect subjects´ eye movement data, which were analyzed to show their processing. Results indicated that feedback is necessary to keep one´s excellent performance stable. What´s more, positive feedback is better to the subjects´ performance and processing than negative feedback. Also, when self-efficacy was taken into account, results got more interesting. That is, people with low self-efficacy are more sensitive to negative feedback than the high ones, while the same result didn´t show up when the feedback was positive.