Dispositional Vs. Situational Goal Orientation: Effects on Self-Efficacy and Performance

Dispositional Vs. Situational Goal Orientation: Effects on Self-Efficacy and Performance
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Release: 2002
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An experimental study investigated the effects of dispositional goal orientation, task difficulty, and accountability manipulations (outcome, process, none) on situational goal orientation and task performance. Accountability and task complexity was manipulated using a 3 X 2 experimental design. Subjects completed measures of dispositional goal orientation, and initial task self-efficacy. Subjects then were exposed to an accountability manipulation, designed to frame the subjects' situational goal orientation. Subjects then performed a computerized managerial decision-making task. Task performance was captured electronically and tracked across each decision-making trial to determine rates of learning. Task self-efficacy was measured following pre-determined trials of the experiment and following completion of all decision-making trials. As expected subjects in process and outcome accountability conditions reported higher levels of task specific (situational) learning orientation. The outcome accountability manipulation also resulted in a higher situational performance orientation. Accountability was also found to affect performance, especially when persons are in the early stages of performing a complex task.

New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance

New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance
Author: Edwin A. Locke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136180958

This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work. The editors and contributors believe goals affect action, and this volume has a lineup of international contributors who look at the recent theories and implications in this area for IO psychologists and human resource management academics and graduate students.

Handbook of Personality at Work

Handbook of Personality at Work
Author: Neil Christiansen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 952
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 113405579X

Personality has emerged as a key factor when trying to understand why people think, feel, and behave the way they do at work. Recent research has linked personality to important aspects of work such as job performance, employee attitudes, leadership, teamwork, stress, and turnover. This handbook brings together into a single volume the diverse areas of work psychology where personality constructs have been applied and investigated, providing expert review and analysis based on the latest advances in the field.

Goal Orientations and Self-efficacy Interactions on Self-set Goal Level

Goal Orientations and Self-efficacy Interactions on Self-set Goal Level
Author: Truman Joseph Gore
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Total Pages: 74
Release: 2014
Genre: Goal (Psychology)
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The current study examined the interactive effects of goal orientations (the tendencies of an individual to set specific types of goals, i.e., learning or performance goals), and self-efficacy (an evaluation of one's own competence on a task) on self-set goal levels and performance in an academic context. Past research has found that learning goal orientation and self-efficacy are both positively related to the difficulty of self-selected goals and to performance whereas avoid-performance goal orientation is negatively associated with both the difficulty of self-set goals and performance. The current study found that learning goal orientation and self-efficacy were positively related to academic performance in the context of low avoid-performance goal orientation. Further, the study provides evidence of conceptual overlap between the concepts of learning goal orientation and self-efficacy and has practical implications for the implementation of motivation-focused training programs.

Handbook of Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Handbook of Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Author: Irving B. Weiner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2012-10-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1118282000

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

The Handbook of Antagonism

The Handbook of Antagonism
Author: Joshua W. Miller
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0128146273

The Handbook of Antagonism: Conceptualizations, Assessment, Consequences, and Treatment of the Low End of Agreeableness looks at the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of antagonism, highlighting the consequences of the trait, its role in a number of problem behaviors and psychiatric disorders, and how it exerts itself on externalizing behaviors. Covering the biological and evolutionary roots of antagonism, the book provides clinical insight on assessment strategies, while also outlining a number of treatment techniques, including motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychology and psychodynamic treatment approaches. In addition, the book explores the development of antagonism across childhood and adolescence, discussing the societal consequences of the trait, as well as its role in a number of problem behaviors, such as aggression, violence, crime and substance use.