GOAL COMMITMENT MEDIATES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPECTED POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF GOAL ATTAINMENT AND EFFORT

• Authors: Fabiny Nikola , Lovaš Ladislav
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Expected positive consequences are predictors of effort expenditure in goal pursuit (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999). However, there are indications that this relationship is moderated (Locke & Latham, 1990) or mediated by commitment. A sample of 388 university students was administrated questionnaires in order to measure goal commitment, effort and positive expected goal attainment consequences. The results suggest that goal commitment is not a moderator of the relationship between positive expected goal attainment consequences and exerted effort but rather mediates the relationship. The findings outline that expected consequences in terms of cost-benefit analysis as another type of expectations are associated with effort, too.

Keywords

EN

GOAL COMMITMENT; EFFORT; POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 84 – 93

Contributors

author

Fabiny Nikola

• Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic

author

Lovaš Ladislav

Identifiers

DOI

10.21909/sp.2018.02.754