Abstract: This study examined the importance of striving for personal goals in accounting for older adults' subjective well-being. In a sample of 62 elders, it was found that self- assessments of the attainability of personal goals were significantly ...
Summary: This study (N = 126 students) examined the importance of dispositions of action control (i.e., action-oriented versus state-oriented modes of control) in moderating the extent to which personal-goal commitments depend on (a) the perceived ...
The possibility of a historically determined shift in developmental tasks of young adulthood was investigated. Personal goals at age 25 of participants from three cohorts spanning twentieth-century Swiss history were studied in an interview combining ...
Predicting Teachers' Stress Experience: Findings from a 4-Year Longitudinal StudyAbstract: We advance a theoretical model of self-regulation for the analysis of teachers' stress experiencing, and we test this model in a prospective longitudinal study ...
Abstract. Although personal goals give meaning to life and contribute to well-being, achieving goals can become difficult in older adults faced with age-related challenges. A group of 49 older adults aged 65 to 92 years completed a semistructured ...
The Munich Value Study - preliminary resuméAbstract. The phenomena of a social change from materialistic to postmaterialistic values was the starting point of the Munich Value Studies. It was expected that students from different branches of studies, who ...
The Influence of Group Memberships on the Information Exchange in Digital MediaAbstract. Digital media have become a central means for information exchange in learning and work environments. The decrease of social cues during computer-mediated ...
That just shows I can’t do it: Goal orientation and attitudes concerning help amongst pre service teachersAbstract. Drawing upon motivational goal theories, the present study analyses the relation between goal orientation for teaching and the attitudes ...
Longitudinal effects of goal orientation on factors of occupational burden in the teacher professionAbstract. Goal theory is a useful framework for describing teachers’ work experience (Butler, 2007). Cross sectional analyses have confirmed relations ...
The incongruence questionnaire (INK). An instrument for the analysis of motivational incongruenceAbstract.Background: Humans strive for need satisfaction through the realization of their goals. Motivational incongruence is defined by the unsatisfactory ...
Goals, gender-related self-concept, and work-life balance in long-term life pursuit. Findings from the Erlangen longitudinal study BELA-EAbstract. Work-life balance is analyzed from the perspective of the long-term structuring of work and private life. ...
Zusammenfassung. Bei N = 101 Arbeitnehmern verschiedener Berufe wurden mit der Experience Sampling Method (ESM) eine Woche lang Daten zum Flow-Erleben, zu Glück/Zufriedenheit und zur Zielausrichtung laufender Aktivitäten erhoben (N = 4 603 Messungen). Die ...
Development and First Evaluation of the Dialog Personality Inventory (dpi) for use in CoachingAbstract. In this article we present a theoretically founded psychometric personality inventory (dialog Persönlichkeitsinventar, dpi) that can be used to ...
Um Befinden und Motivation im Sport vorherzusagen, wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit eine Motiv-Ziel-Passungsannahme geprüft. Zwei Studien testen die Hypothese, dass das Verfolgen sportbezogener Ziele, die zu den impliziten Motiven (Leistungs- und ...
Abstract. A personal goal intervention program was offered to early retirees aged 50 to 65 years with the objective of increasing their subjective well-being. The program was aimed at helping the participants set, plan, pursue, and realize their personal ...
Need for cognition (NFC) refers to “the (enduring) tendency for an individual to engage in and enjoy effortful analytic activity” (Cacioppo & Petty, 1982, p. 116). Yet, NFC has predominantly been assessed in adults. I present a 19-item German NFC scale ...
Articles published in this special section report state-of-the-art research on motivation and related constructs by studying learners in authentic and dynamic situations. Each research team demonstrates the value of using multiple methodologies. I draw ...
The following article from issue 4, 2008 is being retracted: Van den Bos, A., and Stapel, D. (2008). The impact of comprehension versus self-enhancement goals on group perception. Social Psychology, 39, 222-230, doi 10.1027/1864-9335.39.4.222. This ...
Counterfactual thoughts predominantly occur in response to failed goal pursuit. The primary function of self-related counterfactuals seems to be correction of specific behaviors and preparation for future successful goal attainment. In the present article ...