PSYC 471 Chapter Notes -State Implementation Plan, Motivation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Autonomous goal motivation can lead directly to greater goal progress by allowing individuals to exert more effort, experience less conflict, and feel a greater sense of readiness to change their behaviour. It also allows individuals to make better use of implementation plans specifying how, when, and where they will enact goal- directed behaviours. Support from other people can play a vital role in facilitating goal pursuits. Successful goal progress results in enhanced positive affect and reduced negative affect, particularly if the goal pursuits involved satisfaction of intrinsic psychological needs. New year resolutions reflect individuals" attempt to motivate themselves to achieve an important personal goal. Despite the importance of their goals and their commitment to achieving them, most individuals who make a new year"s resolution fail to achieve them. People who fail at their resolutions report that the failure results in negative affect and lowered self-esteem.