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Attaining personal goals: Self-concordance plus implementation intentions equals success.

2002; American Psychological Association; Volume: 83; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1037/0022-3514.83.1.231

1939-1315

Richard Koestner, Natasha Lekes, Theodore A. Powers, Emanuel Chicoine,

Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

The present article includes separate meta-analyses showing that self-concordance and implementation intentions are significantly positively associated with goal progress. Study 1 confirmed the positive relations of both self-concordance and implementation intentions to weekend goal progress. Study 2 confirmed the positive relation of self-concordance with monthly progress on New Year's resolutions but failed to find a direct benefit for implementation intentions. Both studies, however, obtained a significant interaction effect indicating that goal self-concordance and implementation intentions combined synergistically to facilitate goal progress. The article also reports a meta-analysis and results from the 2 studies that demonstrated that goal progress was associated with improved affect over time.