Goal Setting and Goal Striving

By G. Oettingen, Peter M. Gollwitzer. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Mental contrasting instigates goal pursuit by linking obstacles of reality with instrumental behavior (2012, background): “Feeling attracted to a desired future and confident that one can attain it does not necessarily imply that one actually commits to and strives for it (i.e., sets a goal to attain it; Oettingen & Gollwitzer, 2001).”
Mindsets and pre-conscious open-mindedness to incidental information (2007, background): “The cognitive processes that support and maintain goal pursuit have become a central issue among researchers studying motivation (Gollwitzer & Bargh, 1994; Kruglanski et al., 2002; Oettingen & Gollwitzer, 2001; Sorrentino & Higgins, 1986).”
Future thought and behaviour change (2012, background): “Eric Klinger (1975) postulated that the frequency of daydreams and fantasies of certain content is an indication of current concerns (or goal commitment; Oettingen & Gollwitzer, 2001) with respective consequences for selective attention and information processing.”
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach (2021, methodology): “In line with existing theory on the action phase model (Achtziger et al., 2008; Gollwitzer & Bayer, 1999; Gollwitzer, 1990; Oettingen & Gollwitzer, 2007; Taylor & Gollwitzer, 1995), each of the four phases involves different tasks and cognitive- behavioral orientations (mindsets), and hence…”
THE NATURE AND EXPERIENCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION (2009, background): “Goal striving—defined as planning action, monitoring progress, and adjusting action plans based on impediments encountered during goal pursuit (Oettingen & Gollwitzer, 2001)—is also posited to mediate the influence of entrepreneurial passion on persistence and absorption (Figure 1, paths f-l and…”
Turning Fantasies About Positive and Negative Futures into Self-Improvement Goals (2005, background): “…fantasies serve as the anchor to which the obstacles are related, and thus the relational construct of reality "standing in the way" of fantasy realization is activated; Oettingen et al., 2001, Study 3), the conjoint mental elaboration will make expectations relevant to forming goal commitments.”
Strategies of setting and implementing goals: Mental contrasting and implementation intentions (2010, background): “Therefore, mental contrasting should be associated with greater activity in brain regions linked to working memory processes.”
Self‐regulation strategies improve self‐discipline in adolescents: benefits of mental contrasting and implementation intentions (2011, background): “…as goal choice and commitment, and aspects of goal striving, such as goal enactment and shielding (Lewin, Dembo, Festinger, & Sears, 1944; see also Atkinson, 1957; Carver & Scheier, 1999; Heckhausen & Gollwitzer, 1987; Locke & Latham, 1990; Oettingen & Gollwitzer, 2001; Shah & Kruglanski, 2002).”
On the goal-dependency of unconscious thought (2008, unknown): “…has long been associated with the need of conscious guidance (Bandura, 1986; Carver & Scheier, 1998; Deci & Ryan, 1985; Gollwitzer, 1990; AC C EP TE D M AN U SC R IP T Locke & Latham, 1990; summaries in Gollwitzer & Moskowitz, 1996; Mischel, Cantor, & Feldman, 1996; Oettingen & Gollwitzer, 2001).”