Abstract
Effects of two types of performance feedback, goal discrepancy (GDF) and past-performance discrepancy (PDF), on acceptance of assimed goals and personal goal levels were examined. Subjects were 110 introductory psychology students, 90 in an experimental and 20 in a control condition, who performed an anagram task for seven trials. Assigned goals for experimental subjects became increasingly difficult. The importance of understanding factors affecting goal acceptance was discussed
Keywords
PsychologyGoal settingGoal orientationSocial psychologyApplied psychologyCognitive psychology
Related Publications
Achievement goals in the classroom: Students' learning strategies and motivation processes.
We studied how specific motivational processes are related to the salience of mastery and performance goals in actual classroom settings. One hundred seventy-six students attend...
Cultivating competence, self-efficacy, and intrinsic interest through proximal self-motivation.
The present experiment tested the hypothesis that self-motivation through proximal goal setting serves as an effective mechanism for cultivating competencies, self-percepts of e...
Socialization of Student Teachers
In this study of organizational socialization, student teachers became more controlling in their perspectives as they completed their practice teaching. They became significantl...
Aspiration Level Adaptation: An Empirical Exploration
Organizations have been modeled as goal directed systems which use simple decision rules to adapt behavior in response to performance feedback. This paper examines the formation...
Self‐esteem and responses to success and failure: Subsequent performance and intrinsic motivation
Abstract A model is proposed in which the goal of people with high self‐esteem is to cultivate personal strengths in order to excel, whereas the goal of people with low self‐est...
Publication Info
- Year
- 1990
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 68-76
- Citations
- 98
- Access
- Closed
External Links
Social Impact
Altmetric
PlumX Metrics
Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions
Citation Metrics
98
OpenAlex
Cite This
Robert J. Vance,
Adrienne Colella
(1990).
Effects of two types of feedback on goal acceptance and personal goals..
Journal of Applied Psychology
, 75
(1)
, 68-76.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.75.1.68
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1037/0021-9010.75.1.68