Control Theory, Goal Attainment, and Psychopathology

Theory of Goal Attainment

Goal Setting , Goal Striving , and Goal Attainment : Entrepreneurs ’ Motivation

from the proposal: “Although goal striving is important in people’s lives, little research has examined goal striving. In the motivation literature focus has been on goal setting and, to a much lesser degree, goal attainment. No published study has examined entrepreneurs’ goal striving, which constitutes the purpose of the study. A sample of entrepreneurs will provide the data for the study. Th...

Does Monitoring Goal Progress Promote Goal Attainment?

Control theory and other frameworks for understanding self-regulation suggest that monitoring goal progress is a crucial process that intervenes between setting and attaining a goal, and helps to ensure that goals are translated into action. However, the impact of progress monitoring interventions on rates of behavioral performance and goal attainment has yet to be quantified. A systematic lite...

Strategies of self-regulation in goal attainment versus goal maintenance

We propose that there exists an important difference between attainment and maintenance in terms of the goal pursuit strategies for which they call. Specifically, we propose that goal attainment calls for the use of eager approach strategies, whereas goal maintenance calls for the use of vigilant avoidance strategies. We distinguish between attainment versus maintenance as two different goal pu...

King's conceptual system and theory of goal attainment: past, present, and future.

Imogene King is universally recognized as a pioneer of nursing theory development. Her interacting conceptual system for nursing and her theory of goal attainment have been included in every major nursing theory text, are taught to thousands of nursing students, form the basis of nursing education programs, and are implemented in a variety of service settings.