background: designing an intervention to increase physical activity is important to be based on the health care settings resources and be acceptable by the subject group. this study was designed to assess and compare the eff ect of the goal setting strategy with a group education method on increasing the physical activity of mothers of children aged 1 to 5. materials and methods: mothers who ha...

This study examines the effectiveness of two types of goals (distal outcome, proximal plus distal outcome) and being urged to ‘do your best’ as transfer of training interventions using a sample of government employees (n=58). Results revealed that participants who set distal outcome goals had the highest level of self-efficacy. Workplace performance, as assessed by peers, correlated with genera...

Studies of goal setting both in organizations and the laboratory have found that (a) specific, difficult goals lead to better performance than vague or easy goals; (b) shortterm goals can facilitate the achievement of long-term goals; (c) goals affect performance by affecting effort, persistence, and direction of attention, and by motivating strategy development; (d) feedback regarding progress...