Goal Motives, Well-Being, and Physical Health: Happiness and Self-Realization as Psychological Resources Under Challenge

By P. Miquelon, Robert J. Vallerand. 2006

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An integrative model of goal motives, well-being, and physical health was tested within three studies. Study 1 demonstrated that pursuing autonomous goals was positively associated with both happiness and self-realization, whereas pursuing controlled goals was negatively associated with self-realization, but unrelated to happiness. Study 1 further revealed that self-realization was negatively associated with physical symptoms, whereas happiness was unrelated to the symptoms. Study 2 replicated the findings of Study 1 while showing that academic stress mediated the relationship between self-realization and physical symptoms. Finally, Study 3 replicated the findings of Studies 1 and 2 and additionally demonstrated that academic coping mediated the relationship between self-realization and academic stress. These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical implications and directions for future research are proposed.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Goal Motives, Well-Being, and Physical Health: An Integrative Model (2008, methodology): “As such, Miquelon and Vallerand (2006) felt it was important not to confound them with the basic psychological needs.”
The mediating role of positive and negative affect in the situational motivation-performance relationship (2013, background): “…(e.g., education, work, sport), as well as a plethora of tasks (e.g., Edmunds et al. 2007; Gagné et al. 2003; Knollman and Wild 2007; Koestner et al. 2002; Kowal and Fortier 1999; Miquelon and Vallerand 2006; Sheldon et al. 2004; Vallerand et al. 1993; see Vallerand 1997, 2007 for reviews).”
Passion Does Make a Difference in People's Lives: A Look at Well‐Being in Passionate and Non‐Passionate Individuals (2009, background): “Acceptable evidence of validity and reliability for this short PWB has been reported (e.g. Miquelon & Vallerand, 2006; Ryff & Keyes, 1995), as well as evidence for a second-order model with a single super-factor (Ryff & Keyes, 1995).”
The influences of perceived organizational support and motivation on self-initiated expatriates’ organizational and community embeddedness (2017, background): “…autonomous motivation can enhance individuals’ positive attitudes such as enjoyment and happiness (Gillet, Vallerand, Lafrenière, & Bureau, 2013; Miquelon & Vallerand, 2006), and individuals who are autonomously motivated have more resources to engage in greater depth of goal striving (Hortop,…”
On Passion for Life Activities (2010, background): “Participants also completed scales assessing hedonic (i.e., life satisfaction; Blais et al., 1989) and eudaimonic well-being (i.e., self-realization; Ryff & Keyes, 1995; see Miquelon & Vallerand, 2006, 2008, on this issue).”
Passion for coaching and the quality of the coach–athlete relationship: The mediating role of coaching behaviors (2011, result): “In line with prior research (e.g., Miquelon & Vallerand, 2006; Ryff, Slinger, & Love, 2004; Steptoe, Wardle, & Marmot, 2005), happiness was assessed in terms of positive affect.”