Personal strivings: An approach to personality and subjective well-being.
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...Similarly, from our perspective, schemata related to possible selves (Markus & Sentis, 1982), personal strivings (Emmons, 1986), personal projects (Little, 1983), or self-aspects (Linville, 1987) can vary in the degree to which they are well assimilated into the self, and thus would vary in the…...
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...Similarly, from our perspective, schemata related to possible selves (Markus & Sentis, 1982), personal strivings (Emmons, 1986), personal projects (Little, 1983), or self-aspects (Linville, 1987) can vary in the degree to which they are well assimilated into the self, and thus would vary in the degree to which they are the basis for self-determined versus controlled behavior, producing dramatically different experiential and behavioral outcomes....
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...achieve in everyday behavior, have emerged as a new topic of empirical inquiry (Emmons, 1986)....
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...Emmons (1986) found that conflict among goals and ambivalence toward goals are associated with negative affect....
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...…of interactionism (in which the product of personality and environment account for variance beyond their main effects) can be contrasted with more complex models of interactionism that Emmons et al. (1986) refer to as "reciprocal, dynamic, transactional, or organismic interactionism" (p. 851)....
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...Thus, selecting compatible goals may be a critical aspect of achieving SWB. Emmons (1986) found that simply having valued goals, independent of past success, was associated with higher life satisfaction ....
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...Emmons (1986), for example, found that several specific characteristics of goals predict SWB, and the different characteristics influence positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction in different ways....
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...…of research methods to include ideographic assessments of goals, values, and aspirations has allowed an examination of how people’s experiences of well-being are shaped by attributes of their personal goals and their motives for pursuing them (Emmons 1986, Little 1989, Sheldon & Kasser 1995)....
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...Low expectations of success have also been associated with high negative affect (Emmons 1986), and as noted, Waterman (1993) found an association between eudaimonic outcomes (PE) and growth-related, effortful challenge....
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