Self-Regulatory Responses to Unattainable Goals: The Role of Goal Motives

Self and Identity

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 594-612

  Ntoumanis, Nikos ^a,d   Healy, Laura C ^a   Sedikides, Constantine ^b   Smith, Alison L ^c   Duda, Joan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disengagement; Goal motives; Goal pursuit; Goal regulation; Reengagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903151913     PISSN: 15298868     EISSN: 15298876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2014.889033     Document Type: Article

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