Vicissitudes of goal commitment: Satisfaction, investments, and alternatives
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| Title: | Vicissitudes of goal commitment: Satisfaction, investments, and alternatives |
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| Authors: | Burkley, Edward ed.burkley@okstate.edu, Anderson, Darshon1, Curtis, Jessica1, Burkley, Melissa1 |
| Source: | Personality & Individual Differences. Apr2013, Vol. 54 Issue 5, p663-668. 6p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Goal (Psychology), *Individual differences, *Psychology of college students, *Academic achievement, *Foreign language education, Commitment (Psychology), Satisfaction |
| Abstract: | Abstract: Constructs typically used to understand commitment between individuals were used to elucidate individual differences in goal commitment. In Study 1, 299 college students completed assessments of goal satisfaction, investments, alternatives and commitment regarding an academic goal. Structural equation modeling demonstrated confirmatory evidence for satisfaction’s, investments’, and alternatives’ collective impact on people’s goal commitment. In Study 2, the model components were manipulated by having 236 college students considered the goal to learn a new language and read information suggesting they were high or low in satisfaction, investments, and alternatives. Results demonstrated all three factors had a causal impact on people’s level of goal commitment. Both studies found an individual’s level of goal commitment was strongest when satisfaction and investments were high and the impact of alternatives was low. [Copyright &y& Elsevier] |
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| Database: | Education Research Complete |
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