Background: Individual disposition of goal orientation and situational factors of the working context, both generate and modulate motives to seek feedback. Aim: We looked for correlations between feedback-seeking and individual goal orientation, motives or concerns of feedbackseeking, working context of medical residents. We focussed on how promotion of feedback-seeking by supervisors and educational environment influenced motives and behaviours of feedback-seeking in residents. Methods: Web-based administration of a Likert-type composite questionnaire to residents of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Switzerland and mini-interviews. Results: Fifty-six (45%) of 125 residents completed the questionnaire. After multiple regression analysis promotion of feedbackseeking through supervisors remained the sole predictor correlating with feedback-seeking through inquiry (R 2 ¼ 16) and the