Westerhuis, Nils (2022) The Moderating Effect of Self-efficacy on the Relationship between Goal Focus and Successful Goal Pursuit. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
It is a common occurrence for people not to attain their goals. One strategy that may help individuals attain their goals is increasing attention to either the process or the outcomes of a goal, we call this goal focus. The present research examined the moderating effect that self-efficacy has on the relationship between goal focus (process or outcome) and success in goal pursuit. 60 participants, aged 17-66, were recruited through the University of Groningen and the researchers’ personal networks and took part in a two-part online questionnaire. In the first part goal focus was manipulated and moderators were measured, in the second part success in goal pursuit was measured. There was no moderating effect of self-efficacy detected. To add to this, the only effect of goal focus that was detected was a marginally significant effect favoring outcome focus for goal pursuit. This is contrary to the literature, in which process focus is often more beneficial to goal pursuit than outcome focus. The absence of a moderating effect of self-efficacy may The unexpected finding that process focus was not more beneficial to goal pursuit than outcome focus leads us to believe that more studies are needed to determine the context dependencies of goal focus’ effect on goal pursuit. This also means that when goal focus based interventions are created in the future to facilitate goal pursuit it may be important to take contextual factors into account. Keywords: Goal focus, Self-efficacy, Goal pursuit
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Meerholz, E.W. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2022 07:56 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2022 07:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/211 |
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