GOALS, PROJECTS, STRIVINGS (Part) I. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF APPLICATION (Celok, tervek, torekvesek I. Elmeleti megfontolasok es alkalmazasi lehetosegek)

• Authors: Martos Tamas
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The first part of the paper describes the role of goals in personality as well as the theoretical and practical issues of surveying goals. Goals are significant factors from several points of view, including phenomenological, functional, personality and social psychological ones. Goals may be useful in describing important aspects of human functioning. There is a flexible and versatile array of research tools for studying goals. Four aspects are analyzed in this regard: focus of the research question, need of a theoretical framework, hierarchy of the goal system and choice of the goal evaluations. Three research areas are presented as examples for applying goal theory and methodology: 1. approach and avoidance tendencies in goals and their consequences for healthy psychological functioning; 2. self focused goals' significance in personality psychology and 3. goal constructs in the psychology of religion and spirituality. The first part of the paper is confined by discussing the possibility of practical applications, as well as further research tasks and open questions.

Keywords

EN

COUNSELING; GOAL HIERARCHY; GOALS; PERSONAL PROJECTS; PERSONAL STRIVINGS; PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION; SPIRITUALITY

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 331-358
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Martos Tamas

• Tamas Martos, no address given, contact the jouirnal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA074112