Reducing discrepancies of personal goals in the context of cancer: A longitudinal study on the relation with well-being, psychological characteristics, and goal progress

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-147
Author(s):  
Marlous R. Pama ◽  
Moniek Janse ◽  
Mirjam A. G. Sprangers ◽  
Joke Fleer ◽  
Adelita V. Ranchor
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Goal Progress

Women’s Self-Relevant Goal Pursuit in the Presence of Physical Pain: An Intraindividual Variability Approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelbie G Turner ◽  
Karen Hooker ◽  
Robert S Stawski
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Intraindividual Variability ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Goal Progress ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
Age Related

Abstract Objectives Pursuing personal goals that are relevant to one’s sense of self is important for adjusting to age-related changes. Experiences of physical pain, however, are thought to threaten both people’s sense of self and their pursuit of personal goals. Although a majority of older women experience physical pain, little is known about their day-to-day regulation of their self-relevant goals in the presence of physical pain. The objectives of this study were to explore associations between physical pain and health goal pursuit on a daily basis for women who identified health as a part of their possible selves. Methods We took an intraindividual variability approach to analyze whether there were within- and between-person differences in associations between daily pain and daily health goal progress among 62 women who provided data over the course of 100 days, yielding 4,150 occasions of data. Results At the between-person level, women with higher pain on average had lower health goal pursuit on average. At the within-person level, days of higher-than-average pain were associated with lower same-day health goal progress. Discussion Our results suggest that pain interrupts regulation of a self-relevant goal at a within-person—not just between-person—daily level. Future work should consider how these daily, within-person, disruptions affect broader identity processes and overall well-being.

scholarly journals Collaborative autonomy: The dynamic relations between personal goal autonomy and perceived autonomy support in emerging adulthood results in positive affect and goal progress

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby L. Levine ◽  
Marina Milyavskaya
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reciprocal Relation ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Goal Progress

Individuals are more successful when they pursue autonomous goals, but how do such goals develop in young adults? The current investigation suggests that the development of autonomous personal goals is a collaborative process. To test this, we examined whether autonomous motivation and autonomy support would interact in a dynamic reciprocal manner over the school year. A 5-wave longitudinal study was conducted with university students (N = 1544), who completed surveys on motivation, support, goal progress and affect. A dynamic reciprocal relation emerged between autonomous motivation and autonomy support. At each subsequent time-point, autonomy support led to increased autonomous motivation, and autonomous motivation led to increased autonomy support. This upward spiral of autonomous goal motivation and autonomy support also resulted in increased positive affect and goal progress over the academic year. These results suggest that the development of autonomous personal goals is a collaborative process fueled by an individual’s personal autonomy and the interpersonal autonomy support they perceive from others, and this upward cycle is also beneficial for well-being and success. Future research is needed to determine how autonomously motivated individuals seek or elicit more autonomy support from others.

Simple Pleasures: How Goal-Aligned Behaviours Relate to State Happiness

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Wang ◽  
Marina Milyavskaya
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Goal Alignment ◽  
Goal Progress ◽  
Unique Effect ◽  
The Individual

Goal progress has been consistently linked to subjective well-being and happiness (Klug & Maier, 2015), but do the individual actions of doing something helpful for personal goals have similar effects? The current study investigates how goal alignment – the perception that you are engaging in activities that are aligned with personal goals - might be associated with state happiness. We hypothesized that people will feel happier when the activities they are performing are aligned with their goals. The study also explored the roles of goal progress and competence in this relation. Data on goal-activity alignment, goal progress, competence, and state happiness were collected in an experience-sampling study with undergraduate students (N = 159) and a survey study with Amazon MTurk workers (N = 252). Using multilevel analyses and regression analyses, results indicated that participants were happier when they were pursuing activities that were more closely aligned with their goals than when pursuing less goal-aligned activities; the results remained significant after accounting for goal progress. Participants who were more goal-aligned on average reported greater state happiness; this effect was nonsignificant when goal progress was accounted for. Results suggest that goal alignment has a significant and unique effect on state happiness and that goal pursuit has very immediate benefits that begin as soon as individuals start doing actions helpful for their personal goals.

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