How regulatory fit enhances motivational strength during goal pursuit

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Spiegel ◽  
Heidi Grant-Pillow ◽  
E. Tory Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Regulatory Fit ◽  
Motivational Strength

scholarly journals The benefits of interpersonal regulatory fit for individual goal pursuit.

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 720-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Righetti ◽  
Catrin Finkenauer ◽  
Caryl Rusbult
Keyword(s):  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Regulatory Fit

Regulatory Fit and Resisting Temptation during Goal Pursuit

2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio L Freitas ◽  
Nira Liberman ◽  
E.Tory Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Regulatory Fit

scholarly journals Reviewing Regulatory Focus Based on Four Regulatory Forms

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Shan Athena Chen ◽  
Lien-Ti Bei
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Active Avoidance ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Regulatory Fit ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Weak Effect ◽  
Prevention Focus ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Goal Maintenance ◽  
Meta Analyses

This study employs the four regulatory forms (goal pursuit, goal maintenance, negative escape, and active avoidance) to illuminate the heterogeneousness among regulatory focus measurements and activations. The first two studies consistently found that promotion focus involves goal pursuit orientation; however, prevention focus encompasses a goal maintenance and a negative escape orientation. The regulatory forms were then applied to regulatory fit research to investigate how the matches of regulatory forms determine the effect sizes of regulatory fit. By meta-analyses, the weak effect in one third of regulatory fit studies, whose regulatory forms were mismatched or partially matched, decreased the overall fit effect and increased the heterogeneousness among regulatory fit studies. However, a strong and consistent regulatory fit effect was found in well-matched of regulatory forms. By examining and extending regulatory forms to measurement, activation, and regulatory fit studies, this paper offers further understanding of the mechanisms of regulatory focus.

scholarly journals Multiple Goal Management Starts With Attention

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Vogt ◽  
Jan De Houwer ◽  
Geert Crombez
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Dot Probe ◽  
Goal Management ◽  
Multiple Goal ◽  
Motivational Strength

Prior studies have shown that attention is allocated to events relevant to the current goal of a person. Until now, research has focused on the implementation of a single goal leaving open the question of how attention is allocated when multiple goals are activated. We examined whether the allocation of spatial attention is affected by the prioritizing of one goal over another. The results of two dot probe studies showed that attention is oriented to stimuli relevant to a goal with high value when simultaneously presented with stimuli relevant to a goal with low value (Experiment 1) and to stimuli relevant to a goal with high expectancy of success that were simultaneously presented with stimuli relevant to a goal with low expectancy of success (Experiment 2). These findings demonstrate that the allocation of spatial attention is dependent on the motivational strength of goal pursuit.

Less Power, Greater Conflict

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra C. Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
High Power ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Goal Conflict ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Objective Performance ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Power facilitates goal pursuit, but how does power affect the way people respond to conflict between their multiple goals? Our results showed that higher trait power was associated with reduced experience of conflict in scenarios describing multiple goals (Study 1) and between personal goals (Study 2). Moreover, manipulated low power increased individuals’ experience of goal conflict relative to high power and a control condition (Studies 3 and 4), with the consequence that they planned to invest less into the pursuit of their goals in the future. With its focus on multiple goals and individuals’ experiences during goal pursuit rather than objective performance, the present research uses new angles to examine power effects on goal pursuit.

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