The role of implicit motivation in hot and cold goal pursuit: Effects on goal progress, goal rumination, and emotional well-being |
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Authors: | Oliver C Schultheiss Nicolette M Jones Alexstine Q Davis Casey Kley |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 East University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA;bNew York University, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | Two cross-sectional studies examined the role of implicit motivational needs in the association between personal goal pursuits and depressive symptoms and affect. Replicating and extending on findings reported by Brunstein et al. Brunstein, J. C., Schultheiss, O. C., & Grässmann, R. (1998). Personal goals and emotional well-being: The moderating role of motive dispositions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(2), 494–508], both studies provided evidence that goal progress significantly accounted for variations in depressive symptoms and happiness only in individuals with high levels of implicit motivation, but not in individuals low in implicit motivation. Moreover, in the absence of a strong sense of goal commitment, high levels of implicit motivation were associated with high goal progress in both studies and low levels of goal rumination in Study 2. These findings are interpreted within a dual-systems framework of motivation that distinguishes an implicit, intuitive, and hedonically driven from an explicit, effortful-analytical, and non-hedonic mode of goal pursuit. |
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Keywords: | Implicit motives Depression Goal commitment Goal progress Rumination Emotional well-being Picture story exercise Personal goals Intuition Happiness |
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