Bolhuis, Kor (2022) The moderating role of goal importance between goal attainment and well-being among Central-Eastern European Migrants in the United Kingdom. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The present study aims to investigate what goals migrants pursue and how the attainment of these goals relates to their well-being. Next to the relation between goal attainment and well-being, the study also investigates the role of goal importance on this relationship. Previous research showed that striving for and attaining goals positively influences well-being, but some contradicting findings regarding the role of importance on this relationship raised questions about how the role of goal importance holds across different types of goals. To investigate this, we set out to generate a categorization of the aspirations that migrants pursue using a grounded theory. After that, we posited that for every generated category, the attainment of goals within that category would be associated with increased well-being and decreased ill-being. Furthermore, we posited that the relationship would be stronger when goals are perceived as more important. We tested our hypothesis by asking 288 Central-Eastern European migrants living in Great Britain to report three of their current aspirations, the extent to which they perceived their goals as important, and to what extent they already attained their self-set goals. The categorization generated a nice overview of migrants’ aspirations. The regression analysis resulted in significant support for the hypotheses that goal attainment was associated with an increase in well-being or a decrease in ill-being in every goal category. The second hypothesis that importance moderated the relationship between goal attainment and well-being was supported in one category. Furthermore, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and future directions to get a better understanding of the relationship between migrant goal attainment and wellbeing and the role of importance on this relationship.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Toth-Bos, A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Psychology (CP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2022 08:02 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2022 08:02 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/166 |
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