NDLI: Goals and responses to failure: Knowing when to hold them and when to fold them

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Lench, Heather C. Levine, Linda J.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The ability to disengage from hopeless situations is critical to goal attainment and effective self-regulation. Two experiments investigated the effects of striving to attain success (approach goals) versus striving to avoid failure (avoidance goals) on persistence. Participants completed anagrams designed so that less persistence during an initial set of unsolvable anagrams was beneficial. In Study 1, participants reported how motivated they were by approach and avoidance goals. In Study 2, participants were primed to set approach or avoidance goals. Participants with avoidance goals persisted longer during failure, with more intense and enduring emotional distress, than those with approach goals. Greater anger predicted spending more time on subsequent unsolvable anagrams and accounted for differences in persistence. The results suggest that people with approach goals are better able to identify when they should disengage during failure, and disengage more completely, than people with avoidance goals.
Starting Page	127
Ending Page	140
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01467239
Journal	Motivation and Emotion
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15736644
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2008-03-14
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Emotion Goals Approach Avoidance Failure Clinical Psychology Personality & Social Psychology Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology

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