Performance-avoidance goals (the desire to avoid performing more poorly than others do) have been shown to have consistently deleterious effects on performance but the effects of performance-approach goals (trying to outperform others) are more complex. Two studies examine uncertainty as a moderator of the effect of performance-approach goals on performance. Experiment 1 shows that manipulated ...

Mismatch of territories under authority of local governments with urban-regional activity domains, on one hand, has caused numerous problems and, on the other hand, has hindered taking maximum advantage of regional capacities and partial and competitive advantages. Hence, application of a new regionalism approach, which focuses on shared planning and management by all stakeholder groups within ...

That teachers' achievement goals matter for teaching practices is an important premise of teacher motivation research. However, this notion still little understood, particularly as most studies on topic use global self-reports overarching practices. We therefore differentiate between ten central to motivating lessons and introduce a diary approach assessing them. Following baseline goal questio...

Purpose Approaches to solving sustainability problems require a specific problem-solving mode, encompassing the complexity, fuzziness and interdisciplinary nature of problem. This paper aims promote complex systems’ view addressing problems, in particular through tool network science, provides an outline training workshop. Design/methodology/approach The topic workshop is analysis Sustainable D...

Going beyond previous studies on satisfaction in pursuing approach versus avoidance goals, the current study is the first to examine individual satisfaction in pursuing approach and avoidance goals as determined by regulatory fit between type of goal and type of strategy. Specifically, the present study shows that people with approach goals have greater satisfaction when they use an approach st...

The ability to disengage from hopeless situations is critical to goal attainment and effective selfregulation. Two experiments investigated the effects of striving to attain success (approach goals) versus striving to avoid failure (avoidance goals) on persistence. Participants completed anagrams designed so that less persistence during an initial set of unsolvable anagrams was beneficial. In S...