Purpose and goal pursuit as a self-sustaining system: Evidence of daily within-person reciprocity among adolescents in self-driven learning

IF 5 1区 心理学 Q1 Psychology
Kaylin Ratner, Jessica R. Gladstone, Gaoxia Zhu, Qingyi Li, Melody Estevez, Anthony L. Burrow
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Abstract

Objective

Despite long-standing assumptions that a sense of purpose in life and goal pursuit are mutually supportive, empirical evidence of their reciprocity remains deficient. In the context of a unique out-of-school time program that empowers youth to pursue passions through self-driven learning, we examined whether purpose and one aspect of goal pursuit—perceptions of goal progress—work together to sustain themselves and each other over time.

Method

Adolescents (N = 321) completed daily surveys throughout program enrollment (Menrollment = 69.09 days). Through dynamic structural equation modeling, we derived within-person patterns of day-to-day prediction as well as individual differences in these patterns.

Results

We found purpose and perceived goal progress exhibited significant daily inertia (i.e., autoregressive prediction) and reciprocity (i.e., cross-lagged prediction) at the within-person level. We also found initial evidence suggesting (a) tighter reciprocity was related to greater perceived goal progress overall and (b) people with greater purpose inertia may rely less on making goal progress to sustain momentum.

Conclusions

With evidence of daily purpose-progress reciprocity, the field can look forward to replicating this work in other contexts, diving deeper into interesting patterns of within-person dynamics, and developing interventions to support youth striving.

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目的和目标追求是一个自我维持的系统:青少年在自我驱动学习中的日常人际互惠证据。
目的:尽管长期以来,人们一直认为人生目的感和目标追求是相辅相成的,但关于两者互惠关系的实证证据仍然不足。在一个独特的校外项目中,青少年通过自我驱动的学习来追求激情,我们研究了目标感和目标追求的一个方面--对目标进展的看法--是否能够共同维持自身和对方的长期发展:青少年(N = 321)在整个计划注册期间(注册时间 = 69.09 天)完成了每日调查。通过动态结构方程建模,我们得出了个人内部的日常预测模式以及这些模式的个体差异:我们发现,目的和感知到的目标进展在个人水平上表现出显著的日常惯性(即自回归预测)和互惠性(即交叉滞后预测)。我们还发现了一些初步证据,表明(a)更紧密的互惠与更大的感知目标进展总体相关,以及(b)目标惰性较大的人可能较少依赖于目标进展来维持动力:有了日常目标-进展互惠性的证据,该领域可以期待在其他背景下复制这项工作,深入研究人际动态的有趣模式,并制定干预措施以支持青少年努力奋斗。
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Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
CiteScore
9.60
自引率
6.00%
发文量
100
期刊介绍: Journal of Personality publishes scientific investigations in the field of personality. It focuses particularly on personality and behavior dynamics, personality development, and individual differences in the cognitive, affective, and interpersonal domains. The journal reflects and stimulates interest in the growth of new theoretical and methodological approaches in personality psychology.
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