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 ...
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 ...
Goal Orientation and Lack of Achievement in Teachers Abstract. Several studies showed that motivational determinants like goal orientations affect performance-related variables. This study examined the relation between goal-orientation and perceptions of ...
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 ...
Goal conflicts and therapy motivationAbstract.Background: The construct of conflict has played an important role for theory development in the history of psychology and psychotherapy, though it has rarely been ...
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 ...
Self-regulation training to improve goal attainment by women seeking new employment or returning to workAbstract. The aim of the study described here is the development of a self-regulation training program in the context of professional reorientation ...
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 ...