When Goal Pursuit Gets Hairy: A Longitudinal Goal Study Examining the Role of Controlled Motivation and Action Crises in Predicting Changes in Hair Cortisol, Perceived Stress, Health, and Depression Symptoms.

action crisis depression goals hair cortisol motivation

Journal

Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
ISSN: 2167-7026
Titre abrégé: Clin Psychol Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101601751

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Historique:
received: 03 07 2020
accepted: 26 01 2021
entrez: 15 11 2021
pubmed: 16 11 2021
medline: 16 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The action crisis is a critical phase in goal striving during which the goal pursuer feels conflicted about persevering with the goal or initiating disengagement. Recent research suggests that goal motivation, specifically controlled motivation (i.e., pursuing a goal out of obligation and pressure), increases the likelihood of experiencing action crises. In turn, action crises in goal pursuit have been linked to increases in depression symptoms and cortisol. In the present 8-month longitudinal study, we tracked university students' personal goals to examine whether the pursuit of controlled goals and the experience of action crises was associated with increasing levels of hair cortisol, perceived stress, poor health, and depression symptoms (

Identifiants

pubmed: 34777923
doi: 10.1177/2167702621995214
pii: 10.1177_2167702621995214
pmc: PMC8579326
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1214-1221

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2021.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared that there were no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship or the publication of this article.

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Auteurs

Anne Catherine Holding (AC)

Department of Psychology, McGill University.

Emily Moore (E)

Department of Psychology, McGill University.

Amanda Moore (A)

Department of Psychology, McGill University.

Jérémie Verner-Filion (J)

Département des Sciences de l'Éducation, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Isabelle Ouellet-Morin (I)

École de Criminologie, Université de Montréal.

Richard Koestner (R)

Department of Psychology, McGill University.

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