Pursuing personal goals: temporal associations of welcoming accountability, personal responsibility, and progress satisfaction

IF 3.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Research in Personality Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI:10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104652

Robert J. Ridder , Charlotte V.O. Witvliet , Hiroki Matsuo , Juliette L. Ratchford , Karen K. Melton , Perry L. Glanzer , Sarah A. Schnitker

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Abstract

Research shows welcoming accountability and a related construct, personal responsibility, are relevant for goal pursuit, but whether they contribute to future satisfaction with goal pursuit progress remains unstudied. This longitudinal investigation examined the pursuit of self-identified goals in 893 students attending 14 US universities across 4 timepoints spanning 2 years using multi-level random-intercepts cross-lagged panel modeling. Between-persons, welcoming accountability, personal responsibility, and goal progress satisfaction were positively associated. At the within-person goal-level, welcoming accountability and personal responsibility predicted higher subsequent levels of each other. However, satisfaction with goal progress only predicted subsequent welcoming accountability. This cybernetic approach to studying welcoming accountability in goal pursuit advances personality science and accountability theory.

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追求个人目标：欢迎责任、个人责任和进步满意度的时间关联

研究表明，欢迎问责制和一个相关的结构——个人责任——与目标追求有关，但它们是否有助于未来对目标追求过程的满意度，仍未得到研究。本纵向调查采用多层次随机截距交叉滞后面板模型，对14所美国大学的893名学生在2年的4个时间点上对自我确定目标的追求进行了调查。人与人之间，欢迎责任、个人责任和目标进展满意度呈正相关。在个人目标层面，欢迎问责制和个人责任预示着更高的后续水平。然而，对目标进展的满意度只预示着随后的欢迎责任。这种研究目标追求中的欢迎问责的控制论方法促进了人格科学和问责理论的发展。

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Journal of Research in Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

6.10%

发文量

102

审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： Emphasizing experimental and descriptive research, the Journal of Research in Personality presents articles that examine important issues in the field of personality and in related fields basic to the understanding of personality. The subject matter includes treatments of genetic, physiological, motivational, learning, perceptual, cognitive, and social processes of both normal and abnormal kinds in human and animal subjects. Features: • Papers that present integrated sets of studies that address significant theoretical issues relating to personality. • Theoretical papers and critical reviews of current experimental and methodological interest. • Single, well-designed studies of an innovative nature. • Brief reports, including replication or null result studies of previously reported findings, or a well-designed studies addressing questions of limited scope.