Stadig, Gwenyth S2013-11-072013-11-0720112011Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, page: 3835.http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28816http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-13733According to Identity Theory (IT), identity-inconsistent feedback is associated with negative affect and motivation to change the situation to match identity. Responses to identity-relevant feedback from others remains an understudied IT tenet. The affective and self-presentational responses of high-identity exercisers provided with identity confirming or disconfirming feedback in the presence of another person were examined in a randomized experiment. MANCOVA procedures revealed that compared to confirmed individuals, disconfirmed individuals demonstrated greater negative affect, desire to self-present, and attempts to self-present. Regression analyses determined that among disconfirmed individuals, satisfaction with self-presentation was negatively related to negative affect. Findings support IT predictions. KEYWORDS: identity; Identity Theory; affect; role of the other; public; self-presentation; MANCOVA; bivariate regression169 p.enHealth Sciences, Recreation.Thesis