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Effects of Goal Appraisals and Goal Motivation on Dimensions of Identity Development: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Analysis of European American Emerging Adults
- Source :
- Journal of Adult Development
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer US, 2021.
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Abstract
- In the present study, we investigated the ways in which the ideographic goal descriptions and goal appraisals of European American high school seniors reflect potentials for intentional self-development during emerging adulthood (EA), a lifespan phase characterized by increasing levels of freedom and decreasing age-graded, socially sanctioned developmental norms. Additionally, we investigated whether variation in participants’ goal appraisals and the motivational qualities emergent in their goal descriptions would predict variation in dimensions of identity development, both concurrently at age 18 and prospectively at age 23. Results of an exploratory, mixed method analysis of participants’ (N = 129, 56.6% male, Mage = 18.24, SD = 0.37) goal data revealed diversity in education and work goals, strong potentials for intentional self-development reflected across goal appraisals, and more nuanced reflections of intentional self-development across the motivational qualities emergent in goal descriptions. Results partially supported the hypothesis that goal appraisals and motivational qualities that reflect potentials for intentional self-development would predict kindred processes of identity development across the first five years of EA. These findings contribute to a nascent empirical literature focused on the interrelationship of goal and identity constructs during EA and suggest new avenues for future research. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10804-021-09386-0.
- Subjects :
- Intentional self-development
4. Education
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05 social sciences
Identity (social science)
050109 social psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Identity development
Phase (combat)
Mixed methods analysis
Article
Developmental psychology
Emerging adulthood
Variation (linguistics)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Literature study
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Psychology
Goals
050104 developmental & child psychology
Diversity (politics)
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15733440 and 10680667
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Adult Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a4d90c40591ae69046f848d206479442