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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 11, 1547-1558 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206291782
© 2006 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Bolstering Implementation Plans for the Long Haul: The Benefits of Simultaneously Boosting Self-Concordance or Self-Efficacy

Richard Koestner

McGill University, richard.koestner{at}mcgill.ca

E. J. Horberg

University of California, Berkeley

Patrick Gaudreau

University of Ottawa

Theodore Powers

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Pasqualina Di Dio

McGill University

Christopher Bryan

Stanford University

Ruth Jochum

University of Freiburg

Nicholas Salter

McGill University

Recent studies suggest that implementation planning exercises may not be as helpful for long-term, self-initiated goals as for short-term, assigned goals. Two studies used the personal goal paradigm to explore the impact of implementation plans on goal progress over time. Study 1 examined whether administering implementation plans in an autonomy supportive manner would facilitate goal progress relative to a neutral, control condition and a condition in which implementation plans were administered in a controlling manner. Study 2 examined whether combining implementation plans with a self-efficacy boosting exercise would facilitate goal progress relative to a neutral, control condition and a typical implementation condition. The results showed that implementation plans alone did not result in greater goal progress than a neutral condition but that the combination of implementation plans with either autonomy support or self-efficacy boosting resulted in significantly greater goal progress.

Key Words: goal success • autonomy • implementation plans • self-efficacy


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