The Independent Effects of Goal Contents and Motives on Well-Being: It’s Both What You Pursue and Why You Pursue It

By Kennon M. Sheldon, Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci, T. Kasser. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Intensive mindfulness training-related changes in cognitive and emotional experience (2009, neutral): “0001); thus, an overall SWB score for each person was calculated from the mean of the affect balance and life satisfaction scores for further analyses (cf, Sheldon, Ryan, Deci, & Kasser, 2004 ).”
Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goal Contents in Self-Determination Theory: Another Look at the Quality of Academic Motivation (2006, background): “Nonetheless, research has made clear that goal content and goal motives do predict independent variance in well-being and adjustment (Sheldon et al., 2004).”
Intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and academic achievement among Indian adolescents in Canada and India (2011, background): “... mastery-oriented coping with failure (e.g., Dweck 1975), enhanced deep or conceptual learning (e.g., Ames and Archer 1988; Grolnick and Ryan 1987; Vansteenkiste et al. 2004), creativity (e.g., Eisenberger and Shanock 2003; Koestner et al. 1984), enhanced cognitive flexibility and engagement (e.g”
Why Create Value for Others? An Exploration of Social Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “Researchers alternately address motives (White 1959), needs (Deci and Ryan 1985; Maslow 1943; McClelland 1985), drives (Maslow 1943), desires (Reiss 2004), instincts (McDougall 1918), and goals (Kasser and Ryan 1993; Sheldon et al. 2004).”
Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale (2011, background): “The value construct has been found to be reliably associated with several different indices of well-being (e.g., Kasser and Ryan 1996; Rokeach 1973; Sheldon et al. 2004; Srivastava et al. 2001), and it would thus seem that conceptions of well-being, due to their similarity with the value construct,…”
Uncovering the relationships between aspirations and luxury brand preference (2010, background): “Since aspirations are related to fundamental psychological needs acting as motives for action, they have direct effects on an individual's behavior which over time tends to be consistent with the goals that s/he pursues ( Sheldon et al. , 2004”
Living well: a self-determination theory perspective on eudaimonia (2008, background): “Sheldon et al. (2004) provided three studies showing the independent contributions of these what and why effects, on a variety of wellbeing outcomes, which they demonstrated at both within- and between-subject levels of analysis.”
Purpose in Life as a System that Creates and Sustains Health and Well-Being: An Integrative, Testable Theory (2009, background): “When strivings are self-selected and well-integrated with a person’s preferences or personality traits (Sheldon, Ryan, Deci, & Kasser, 2004; McGregor & Little, 1998), the opportunity for substantial beneﬁts are increased.”