NDLI: Goal Internalization and Outcome Expectancy in Adolescent Anxiety

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Author	Dickson, Joanne M. Moberly, Nicholas J.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Anxiety has been conceptualized in terms of increased avoidance motivation and higher expectancies of undesirable outcomes. However, anxiety research has hitherto not examined an important qualitative aspect of motivation: the degree to which reasons for goal pursuit are experienced as controlling and originating outside the core self. We asked 70 adolescents (34 boys, 36 girls; aged 16–18 years) to list their important approach and avoidance goals, and rate the extent to which they pursued each goal for intrinsic, identified, introjected and external reasons. Participants also rated goal importance, expectancies for goal outcomes, and completed an anxious symptom measure. Broadly in line with predictions, anxiety was significantly associated with introjected reasons for pursuing approach goals and external reasons for pursuing avoidance goals but not with autonomous reasons for goal pursuit. As predicted, anxiety was significantly associated with heightened expectancies of undesirable avoidance goal outcomes, but not with expectancies for desirable approach goal outcomes. Results suggest that the salient role of avoidance-based motivation in anxiety extends to introjected reasons underlying approach goal pursuit. Our findings point to the theoretical and clinical importance of addressing controlled reasons for goal pursuit in adolescent anxiety.
Starting Page	389
Ending Page	397
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00910627
Journal	Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Volume Number	41
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15732835
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-10-07
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Anxiety Avoidance Goals Expectancies Self-regulation Motivation Child and School Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Developmental and Educational Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health

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