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Goal difficulty and endurance performance: A challenge to the goal attainability assumption.
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This article is published in Journal of sport behavior.The article was published on 1987-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 29 citations till now.read more
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Unique effects of setting goals on behavior change: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: Goal setting is an effective behavior change technique that has the potential to be considered a fundamental component of successful interventions.
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The effect of multiple-goal strategies on performance outcomes in training and competition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined empirically Hardy, Jones, and Gould's (1996) suggestion, that consultants should now be promoting the use of a multiple-goal strategy, and found that they do in fact make effective use of outcome goals.
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Performance enhancement in sport: A cognitive behavioral domain.
TL;DR: The clinical technology developed by cognitive behavioral practitioners has become the foundation for psychological efforts to enhance athletic performance as discussed by the authors, and the history of applied sport psychology is briefly noted, and the empirical literature which supportes the use of cognitive behavioral intervention strategies in athletic contexts is considered.
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The Effects of Goal Setting, Self-Efficacy, Competition, and Personal Traits on the Performance of an Endurance Task
Bart S. Lerner,Edwin A. Locke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of goal setting, self-efficacy, competition, and personality on the performance of a sit-up task and found that the main effect of goal level was borderline significant (p <.059).
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Problems With Goal-Setting Research in Sports—and Their Solution
TL;DR: The effectiveness of goal-setting has been verified by narrative reviews and meta-analyses as discussed by the authors ; further, the generality of goal setting has been established across tasks, subjects, performance measures, time spans, countries, settings (laboratory and field), levels of analysis (individual, group, and organizational), and methods of setting goals (self-set, assigned, and participative).