Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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893317 | Personality and Individual Differences | 2006 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The authors examined the personality and motivational underpinnings of goal construction among Israeli young adults participating in a preparatory academic program (N = 236). Participants with a strong sense of efficacy reported elevated project investment and intrinsic and identified motivation, a positive project appraisal, and reduced amotivation. In contrast, self-critical participants reported reduced intrinsic motivation and elevated amotivation, and a negative project appraisal. These findings emphasize the role of personality and motivation in goal construction during young adulthood, and confirm conceptualizations of efficacy and self-criticism as respectively representing adaptive and maladaptive aspects of self-definition.
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Authors
Golan Shahar, Esther Kalnitzki, Shmuel Shulman, Sidney J. Blatt,