• DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.76.3.482
Corpus ID: 6972318

Goal striving, need satisfaction, and longitudinal well-being: the self-concordance model.

@article{Sheldon1999GoalSN,
  title={Goal striving, need satisfaction, and longitudinal well-being: the self-concordance model.},
  author={K. Sheldon and A. Elliot},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={1999},
  volume={76 3},
  pages={
          482-97
        }
}

K. Sheldon, A. Elliot

Published 1999

Medicine, Psychology

Journal of personality and social psychology

An integrative model of the conative process, which has important ramifications for psychological need satisfaction and hence for individuals' well-being, is presented. The self-concordance of goals (i.e., their consistency with the person's developing interests and core values) plays a dual role in the model. First, those pursuing self-concordant goals put more sustained effort into achieving those goals and thus are more likely to attain them. Second, those who attain self-concordant goals… CONTINUE READING

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