Adolescent Goals and Their Reports of What They do to Achieve Those Goals

Twenty-five adolescents' 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 reputation and self-presentation goals rather low. Results analyzed with a contingency coefficient and biserial correlation indicated that not all number one ranked goals had the same value for a particular adolescent, and that number one ranked goals were correlated with verbal reports of concrete actions directed at achieving those goals.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2000

Author dc:creator

• Lucky, Derek

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rosales Ruíz, Jesús
• Greenspoon, Joel
• Smith, Richard

• Adolescent psychology.
• Goal (Psychology).
• Action theory.
• educational goals
• career goals
• adolescents
• goal setting behavior

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Lucky, Derek
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 47178535
untcat: b2300519
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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