Are positive goals desirable and negative ones painful? : strategic approach and avoidance goal-setting in the academic context.

• 主要作者: Tan, Ser Hong.
• 其他作者: Joyce Pang Shu Min
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2010
• 主題: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39739
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Regulatory focus theory distinguishes between promotion goals, defined by progress or lack thereof to desired end-states, and prevention goals, defined by deficits or mismatches to desired end-states. In Study 1 (N = 320), a measure of goals incorporating promotion-prevention motivations with approa...