Self-concordance, goal attainment, and the pursuit of happiness: can there be an upward spiral?

By Kennon M. Sheldon, Linda Houser‐Marko. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Tourism and health: using positive psychology principles to maximise participants’ wellbeing outcomes – a design concept for charity challenge tourism (2015, background): “Interestingly, studies suggest that happiness can be maintained when volitional activity, i.e. “striving for important personal goals or devoting effort to meaningful causes” (Lyubomirsky et al., 2005, p. 118), is pursued over long periods of time (Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001).”
The Efficacy of Executive Coaching in Times of Organisational Change (2014, background): “Second, the process of setting personally valued goals and then purposefully working towards achieving them can enhance well-being, build self-efficacy, and help develop solution-focused thinking (Sheldon and Houser-Marko, 2001).”
The job crafting questionnaire: A new scale to measure the extent to which employees engage in job crafting (2013, methodology): “As in past research (e.g., Sheldon & Elliot, 1999; Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001; Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, www.internationaljournalofwellbeing.org 134 2006) an intrinsic motivation score was then calculated by averaging the intrinsic and identified ratings, and subtracting the averaged external and…”
Using signature strengths in pursuit of goals: Effects on goal progress, need satisfaction, and well-being, and implications for coaching psychologists (2010, methodology): “Previous research has linked goal pursuit and progress with a range of well-being outcomes (e.g. Sheldon & Elliot, 1999; Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001).”
Teacher support, student motivation, student need satisfaction, and college teacher course evaluations: testing a sequential path model (2008, methodology): “Consistent with the goal‐based research of Sheldon and colleagues (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999 ; Sheldon & Houser‐Marko, 2001 ; Sheldon & Kasser, 1997), we assessed each of the four motivation dimensions with a single prototypical item.”
Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference (2007, background): “…they begin to see their identities as overlapping with beneficiaries’ identities (Cialdini, Brown, Lewis, Luce, & Neuberg, 1997), and they perceive acting in the interest of these beneficiaries as consistent with their core personal values (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999; Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001).”
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, methodology): “Studies based on the self-concordance model have supported such assertions, showing that self-concordance of goals—the degree to which one’s goals are concordant with one’s interests and values— positively predicts well-being (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999; Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001).”
The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression : two longitudinal studies (2008, neutral): “…is a growing body of evidence to support this theory with regard to positive emotions in general (e.g. Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002; Fredrickson, Tugade, Waugh, & Larkin, 2003; Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001), and Fredrickson (2004) has suggested that gratitude operates in a broaden-and-build fashion.”
Shaping Environments Conductive to Creativity (2012, background): “When people are autonomously motivated, they tend to be higher performers in the workplace, more effective at achieving goals, and more satisfied and happier (Judge et al. 2005; Koestner et al. 2008; Sheldon and Houser-Marko 2001).”
Affect and the Functional Bases of Behavior: On the Dimensional Structure of Affective Experience (2001, background): “Although bad events can have a cascade effect on other bad events, a similar cascade among positive experiences may be less common (though see Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001, for evidence that it does occur sometimes).”
Doing one's duty: chronological age, felt autonomy, and subjective well‐being (2005, background): “This possibility probably cannot be ruled out without using more indirect methodologies to measure autonomy and SWB, such as projective tests (deCharms & Plimpton, 1992), implicit association tests (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998), or peer and family report (Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001).”
Death Contemplation, Growth, and Defense: Converging Evidence of Dual-Existential Systems? (2006, background): “…who are more likely to feel insecure in their ability to meet their goals, and as result are keenly aware of what they stand to lose (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999; Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001); these are examples of the necessary inputs for prevention-focused self-regulation (Higgins, 1997).”
Achieving Sustainable New Happiness: Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions (2012, methodology): “For example, Sheldon and Houser-Marko (2001) conducted a 4-wave study of college freshmen, covering the entire first academic year.”
Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self: Hierarchical Ordering of the Tripartite Self (2011, background): “Persons pursue goals pertinent to their individual, relational, and collective selves (Gore and Cross 2006; Sheldon and Houser-Marko 2001).”