Managing life through personal goals: intergoal facilitation and intensity of goal pursuit in younger and older adulthood.
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Output type: Journal article
Author list: Riediger, Freund, Baltes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication year: 2005
Journal: The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences (1079-5014)
Volume number: 60
Issue number: 2
Start page: P84
End page: 91
ISSN: 1079-5014
eISSN: 1758-5368
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Full text URL: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article-pdf/60/2/P84/1452217/P84.pdf
Abstract
Two studies varying in design (cross-sectional and longitudinal) and methods (questionnaires, diaries, and objective information) support the notion that personal goals are among the phenomena that show positive development throughout adulthood: Older adults (M = 64 years) reported more mutual facilitation among their personal goals and were more engaged in goal pursuit than were younger adults (M = 25 years). Results were robust when age-group differences in education and disposable time were controlled for, and they also emerged in a context where younger and older participants had one goal in common, namely, to start regular physical exercise. Mediational analyses showed that the older adults' higher intensity of goal pursuit was partly mediated by their higher level of intergoal facilitation.
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