Abstract
The present study aimed at specifying the coping strategies with an inconsistent feedback with one's self-concept from other, and secondly examining the effect of feedback receiver's feeling on choice process of the coping strategies. The respondents were 288 male and female university students who had called to mind an inconsistent feedback situation. They were asked to evaluate several traits of one's self-concept in question, the feedback information, and the sender. Subsequently, they rated one's feeling (pleasant-unpleasant) and the degree of using the coping strategies in time of that situation. The main findings were as follow. ; (1) the coping strategies were classified into nine type.; (2) the receiver's feeling was generally an intermediate variable between the traits of that situation and use of the coping strategies.; (3) when the receiver perceived that situation an unpleasant scene, his choice process was influenced by each trait of that situation. But in a pleasant receiver, it was under the Influence of the feedback information only.
