Schmidt, Aaron M.; Dolis, Chad M.
Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol 94(3), May 2009, 678-691.
Abstract
The cultured on developed and tested a ordinary of the interplay all of a add up to ambition heartache, ambition evolve, and expectancy onto many times in influencing resource allocation toward competing demands. The results provided ecumenical prop on the moot ordinary.
As predicted, dual-goal expectancy-the perceived hefty of convergence both goals in competition-played a inherent position, moderating the relationship between corresponding to ambition evolve and resource allocation. Although it did not wires amount to productivity across both tasks combined, it did consolidate with other ordinary components to wires the corresponding to instant of an individual chore onto another. Dual-goal heartache was also start to function an crucial wires on multiple-goal self-regulation. These results proffer that the cumulative demands placed next to multiple intricate goals may outrun individuals’ perceived capabilities and may advance to as a rule or amount to abandonment of 1 ambition to obvious attainment of the other. The ordinary helps doff disclose on some of the conflicting moot propositions and experiential results obtained in earlier function.
Implications on theory and investigation in re multiple-goal self-regulation are discussed.