Interpersonal goal support in achieving ideals and oughts: The role of dispositional regulatory focus

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 650-654

  Righetti, Francesca ^a   Kumashiro, Madoka ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumentality; Interpersonal goal support; Ought self goals; Regulatory focus; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863779823     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.019     Document Type: Article

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