Personal goals and psychological growth: testing an intervention to enhance goal attainment and personality integration |
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Authors: | Sheldon Kennon M Kasser Tim Smith Kendra Share Tamara |
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Institution: | University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. |
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Abstract: | We hypothesized that semester goal attainment provides a route to short-term psychological growth. In an attempt to enhance this process, we randomly assigned participants to either a goal-training program or to a control condition. Although there were no main effects of program participation on later goal attainment, important interactions were found. Consistent with a "prepared to benefit" model, participants already high in goal-based measures of personality integration perceived the program as most useful and benefited the most from the program in terms of goal attainment. As a result, they became even more integrated and also increased in their levels of psychosocial well-being and vitality. Implications for theories of short-term growth and positive change are discussed, as is the unanswered question of how to help less-integrated persons grow. |
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