{"id":1005,"date":"2022-04-25T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:20:00","slug":"exploring-the-association-between-goal-difficulty-and-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/2022-presentations\/exploring-the-association-between-goal-difficulty-and-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Association Between Goal Difficulty and Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hope Duppler<\/strong> Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Danielle Geerling<\/strong> Professor of Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Presentation Time:<\/strong> April 28, 1pm &#8211; 1:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-2048x1536.png 2048w, https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-1870x1403.png 1870w, https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster-800x600.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Duppler-Poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Poster<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goals are important sources of motivation and well-being, but not all goals are made alike. In this research, we investigate the effects of difficult goals on well-being. College students completed a series of four self-report surveys to track their goal progress and well-being over the course of a semester. In the first survey (N\u04421=150), participants were asked to describe and rate various features of a goal they had for the semester. In the fourth and final survey (N\u04424=48), they indicated their well-being, specifically life satisfaction and affect balance. Regression analyses indicated no significant main or interactive effects of goal difficulty and goal autonomy on life satisfaction or affect balance, ps &gt; .154, and the same is true of main and interactive effects of goal difficulty and goal autonomy on these outcomes, ps &gt; .095. When omitting two outliers (&gt;2 SD below the mean of goal difficulty), results indicated a marginally significant curvilinear association between goal difficulty squared and affect balance (B = -1.254, \u03b2 = -.273, SE= .682, p= .075). In general, this study suggests few effects of goal difficulty on well-being, even when goal autonomy and goal specificity are taken into account. However, this study does show a marginally significant curvilinear relationship between goal difficulty and affect balance. As a participant\u2019s goal difficulty increased, the effect of goal difficulty on their well-being decreased. This may suggest the existence of an optimal level of goal difficulty, implying that not all difficult goals will be beneficial for one\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope Duppler Psychology Danielle Geerling Professor of Psychology Presentation Time: April 28, 1pm &#8211; 1:30pm View Poster Abstract Goals are important sources of motivation and well-being, but not all goals are made alike. In this research, we investigate the effects of difficult goals on well-being. College students completed a series of four self-report surveys to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-presentations","tag-poster","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.knight.domains\/urf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}