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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tan, Ser Hong.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Joyce Pang Shu Min
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2010
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39739
• المؤسسة: 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...