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Achievement goals, study strategies, and exam performance: A mediational analysis.

Two studies examined achievement goals as predictors of self-reported cognitive/ metacognitive and motivational study strategies and tested these study strategies as mediators of the relationship…
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Approach and avoidance social motives and goals.

  • S. Gable
  • Psychology
    Journal of personality
  • 1 February 2006
It was predicted that approach social motives and goals would be linked to outcomes characterized by the presence of positive social features, and avoidance social motives and goals would be linked…
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What (and Why) is Positive Psychology?

Positive psychology is the study of the conditions and processes that contribute to the flourishing or optimal functioning of people, groups, and institutions. In this brief introduction, the authors…
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What do you do when things go right? The intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits of sharing positive events.

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Two studies showed that communicating personal positive events with others was associated with increased daily positive affect and well-being, above and beyond the impact of the positive event itself and other daily events.
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Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness

Emotional well-being is most typically studied in trait or trait-like terms, yet a growing literature indicates that daily (within-person) fluctuations in emotional well-being may be equally…
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Perceptions of Classroom Environment, Achievement Goals, and Achievement Outcomes.

Two studies examined the relationship between undergraduates' perceptions of their classroom environment, their adoption of achievement goals for the course, and their graded performance and…
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Will you be there for me when things go right? Supportive responses to positive event disclosures.

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Responses to positive event discussions were more closely related to relationship well-being and break-up than were responses to negative event discussions.
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Behavioral activation and inhibition in everyday life.

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Results demonstrate the value of distinguishing within-person and between-person effects to clarify the functionally independent processes by which dispositional sensitivities influence affect.
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Beyond reciprocity: gratitude and relationships in everyday life.

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The authors examined the role of naturally occurring gratitude in college sororities during a week of gift-giving from older members to new members, and found that gratitude during the week predicted future relationship outcomes.
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Approach and Avoidance Motivation in the Social Domain

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This research put Gable’s hierarchical model of approach-avoidance social motivation to empirical test using newly developed measures of friendship-approach and avoidance goals to provide support for the full hierarchical model in longitudinal analyses of subjective well-being and physical symptomotology.
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