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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 3, 378-391 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205282153

Approach and Avoidance Motivation in the Social Domain

Andrew J. Elliot

University of Rochester

Shelly L. Gable

University of California–Los Angeles

Rachael R. Mapes

University of Rochester

This research put Gable’s (in press) hierarchical model of approach-avoidance social motivation to empirical test using newly developed measures of friendship-approach and avoidance goals. The results from Study 1 supported the psychometric soundness of the new goal measures and showed the anticipated differential predictive patterns for the two goals. The results from Study 2 provided further evidence of the psychometric soundness of the new goal measures and provided support for the full hierarchical model in longitudinal analyses of subjective well-being and physical symptomotology. Implications of the present research for understanding motivation both within and beyond the social domain are discussed.

Key Words: social • motivation • relationships • approach-avoidance • goals


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