The Tenacious Goal Pursuit and Flexible Goal Adjustment Scales: A Validation Study

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 174-180

  Henselmans, Inge ^a   Fleer, Joke ^a   van Sonderen, Eric ^a   Smink, Ans ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Ranchor, Adelita V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Goals; Psychological adaptation; Self regulation; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE GOAL ADJUSTMENT SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; TENACIOUS GOAL PURSUIT SCALE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79953150596     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021536     Document Type: Article

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