Personality, motivation, and the construction of goals during the transition to adulthood

Golan Shahar; Esther Kalnitzki; Shmuel Shulman; Sidney J. Blatt

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.06.016

Personality, motivation, and the construction of goals during the transition to adulthood

Golan Shahar, Esther Kalnitzki, Shmuel Shulman, Sidney J. Blatt

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

The authors examined the personality and motivational underpinnings of goal construction among Israeli young adults participating in a preparatory academic program (N = 236). Participants with a strong sense of efficacy reported elevated project investment and intrinsic and identified motivation, a positive project appraisal, and reduced amotivation. In contrast, self-critical participants reported reduced intrinsic motivation and elevated amotivation, and a negative project appraisal. These findings emphasize the role of personality and motivation in goal construction during young adulthood, and confirm conceptualizations of efficacy and self-criticism as respectively representing adaptive and maladaptive aspects of self-definition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	53-63
Number of pages	11
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	40
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.06.016
State	Published - Jan 2006

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Funding Information:
This study was supported in part by a research grant from the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) to Shmuel Shulman (Principal Investigator) and Golan Shahar (Co-Principal Investigator) and by a grant from the National Institution of Psychobiology in Israel to Golan Shahar (Principal Investigator).

Funding

This study was supported in part by a research grant from the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) to Shmuel Shulman (Principal Investigator) and Golan Shahar (Co-Principal Investigator) and by a grant from the National Institution of Psychobiology in Israel to Golan Shahar (Principal Investigator).

Funders	Funder number
National Institution of Psychobiology in Israel to Golan Shahar
Israel Science Foundation

Keywords

Goals
Motivation
Personality
Self-Criticism
Young Adulthood

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