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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Goal (Psychology)"”.
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When the goal is to be less stressed: a naturalistic investigation of academic and self-care goal completion
… success and posing a challenge for academic goals and self-care behaviors. Individual difference factors such as resilience and need for cognition may impact this stress experience as well as academic and self-care behaviors. Prior to the current study, self-care had yet to be studied in the …
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Do offenders' life goals reflect locus of control and personality traits?
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Examining the antecedents of the work motivation in the context of Turkish national police
… evidence regarding Locke & Latham's (1990) goal-setting theory. The model not only helps us to have a better understanding about antecedents of the work motivation but also portrays the relationship between work motivation and related independent variables, including goal content, goal …
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Normative Influence and its Effect on Goal Commitment and Task Performance
… (nAp), social influence, and depression on goal commitment and postperformance. It was hypothesized positive social influence would be associated with high commitment and postperformance. It was also hypothesized high nAch would be associated with high commitment and postperformance. It was …
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Toward a functional approach to goal setting
… be associated with performance improvements is goal setting (within and across days). Easy-to-achieve goals will likely produce gradual trends in improvement and difficult-to-achieve goals steeper trends. The purpose of the current experiments was to study the effects of setting easy-to-achieve …
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CONNECTEDNESS AND PERCEIVED INSTRUMENTALITY IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: A COMPARISON OF TWO MEASURES
Individuals select goals to decide on which actions to pursue. They find themselves motivated toward some activities more than others. Time is also influential in making these decisions. Two models describe some of these differences in motivation by employing alternative perspectives of the world …
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Goal Setting Strategies, Locus of Control Beliefs, and Personality Characteristics of NCAA Division IA Swimmers
The purpose of the present study was to examine goal setting strategies, locus of control beliefs and personality characteristics of swimmers (108 males and 111 females) from top twenty 1999 NCAA Division IA programs. Three questionnaires were completed: (a) Goal Setting in Sport Questionnaire …
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Adolescent Goals and Their Reports of What They do to Achieve Those Goals
… ranking of a set of equally highly valued goals on a Paired-comparisons Survey was compared with what adolescents say they are doing to achieve those goals. Results of the Paired-comparisons Survey showed that adolescents ranked career, interpersonal, and educational goals rather high and …
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The effect of individualized versus cooperative learning on achievement and task performance
The present study investigates whether individuals who are trained in groups will benefit from a more enhanced facilitation of the information than those trained in a more traditional, individualistic, classroom setting. Participants who learn in a cooperative, group setting are expected to exhibit …
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The Trail Map©: a goal organizational tool for first generation college students
… skill (MFS) constructs such as self- efficacy, goal setting, motivation, and resilience are all related to academic success (Hammermeister, Jordan, Briggs, Galm, & Pickering, 2012). This study aimed to explore further the idea that MFS can be of utility to FGCS in their pursuit of academic …
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The relationships between goal orientation, perfectionism, parental involvement, peer climate, enjoyment, and intention to continue in sport in children.
… peer-initiated climates, and perfectionism to goal orientation as well as children's enjoyment and the intention to continue playing sport in youth sport. Participants were 188 athletes, 100 boys (M = 12.06, SD = 1.06) and 88 girls (M = 12.18, SD = .73). The athletes completed the TEOSQ, Sport …
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Influences On Career Self-Efficacy: Examining Attachment
This study examined the influences of attachment style and level of optimism on career self-efficacy. It was hypothesized that level of optimism moderates the relationship between attachment style and career self-efficacy. Participants were 173 college students who completed the Experiences in …
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An evaluation of the usefulness of a self-appraisal & goal setting instrument for community health nurses
… the usefulness of an adapted self-appraisal and goal setting performance instrument. The instrument is developmental in its purpose and is currently used by community health nurses at the Armadale Kelmscott Health Service of the Health Department of Western Australia. The study was conducted in …