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The path taken: Consequences of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations in post-college life
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Life goals, or aspirations, organize and direct behavior over extended periods of time. The present study, guided by self-determination theory, examined the consequences of pursuing and attaining aspirations over a one-year period in a post-college sample. Results indicated that placing importance on either intrinsic or extrinsic aspirations related positively to attainment of those goals. Yet, whereas attainment of intrinsic aspirations related positively to psychological health, attainment of extrinsic aspirations did not; indeed, attainment of extrinsic aspirations related positively to indicators of ill-being. Also as predicted, the association between change in attainment of intrinsic aspirations and change in psychological health was mediated by change in the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Discussion focuses on the idea that not all goal attainment is beneficial; rather, attainment of aspirations with different contents relates differentially to psychological health.
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“The z' test indicated that change in basic psychological need satisfaction was a significant mediator of the direct relation (z' = -2.26, p < .01).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Ill-Being
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“The z' test indicated that change in basic psychological need satisfaction was a significant mediator of the direct relation (z' = 2.69, p < .01).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Well-Being
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“Yet, whereas attainment of intrinsic aspirations related positively to psychological health, attainment of extrinsic aspirations did not; indeed, attainment of extrinsic aspirations related positively to indicators of ill-being.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Abstract
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“Also as predicted, the association between change in attainment of intrinsic aspirations and change in psychological health was mediated by change in the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Abstract
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“Results indicated that placing importance on either intrinsic or extrinsic aspirations related positively to attainment of those goals.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Abstract
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“Yet, whereas attainment of intrinsic aspirations related positively to psychological health, attainment of extrinsic aspirations did not; indeed, attainment of extrinsic aspirations related positively to indicators of ill-being.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Abstract
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“Participants reported higher attainment of the extrinsic aspiration for fame at Time 1 [M (SD) = 2.32 (0.95)] than at Time 2 [M (SD) = 2.16 (0.90)], t (132) = 2.39, p < .05.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Preliminary Analyses
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“Results indicated that placing importance on either intrinsic or extrinsic aspirations related positively to attainment of those goals.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Abstract
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“Yet, whereas attainment of intrinsic aspirations related positively to psychological health, attainment of extrinsic aspirations did not; indeed, attainment of extrinsic aspirations related positively to indicators of ill-being.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Abstract
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“importance of intrinsic aspirations at Time 1 related positively to attainment of intrinsic aspirations at Time 2 (β = .51, p < .01)”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Primary Analyses: Structural Modeling of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“Similar results have been found in diverse countries and with working adults as well as college students (e.g., Ryan et al., 1999; Schmuck, Kasser, & Ryan, 2000; Vansteenkiste et al., 2007).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Pursuit of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ryan et al., 1999 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Schmuck, Kasser, & Ryan, 2000 source
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The Method passage identifies the participants as 885 Belgian employees, and the Conclusions report that employees placing greater importance on materialistic work values experienced worse job outcomes. This supports the citation's contribution to the sentence: similar findings among working adults. The sentence cites other studies alongside this one for its broader reference to countries and college students. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“Vansteenkiste et al. (2007) reported that employees who held an extrinsic (relative to an intrinsic) work value orientation reported both short-lived satisfaction after successful goal attainment and also conflict between their work and family.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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- Supportedcites Vansteenkiste et al. (2007) source
The Results section reports that, in Study 2, an extrinsic relative to intrinsic work value orientation positively predicted both short-lived satisfaction and work-family conflict. The ‘Implications of employees’ work value orientations’ section specifies that the short-lived positive feelings followed attainment of a work goal and that extrinsically oriented employees experienced more conflict between work and family life. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“All factor loadings were significant (p < .01) and ranged in magnitude from .39 to .95 (mean λ = .69).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Primary Analyses: Structural Modeling of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“The second factor included the three negative indices of psychological health and yielded an eigenvalue of 1.27 that accounted for an additional 21.08% of the variance. Anxiety, physical symptoms, and negative affect had factor loadings of .89, .90, and .79, respectively.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Preliminary Analyses
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“The first factor included the three positive indices of psychological health and yielded an eigenvalue of 3.31 that accounted for 55.11% of the variance. Life satisfaction, self-esteem, and positive affect had factor loadings of .83, .85, and .87, respectively.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Preliminary Analyses
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“Females [M (SD) = 4.22 (1.47)] reported higher attainment of the intrinsic aspiration for community involvement at Time 2 than did males [M (SD) = 3.65 (1.28)], t (141) = 2.24, p < .05.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Preliminary Analyses
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“All paired samples correlations were significant (p < .01) and ranged in magnitude from .66 to .79.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Preliminary Analyses
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“Time 1 ill-being related positively to Time 2 ill-being (β = .65, p < .01), indicating that ill-being remained relatively stable over time.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Ill-Being
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“the relation of the residual variance of Time 2 intrinsic attainment to the residual variance of Time 2 well-being was reduced from β = .63 (p < .01) to β = .16 (ns), indicating mediation of the direct relation.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Well-Being
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“in the current study, attainment of intrinsic aspirations related positively to psychological health, whereas attainment of extrinsic aspirations was either unrelated or negatively related to psychological health”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“The covariances between the residual variances of Time 1 and Time 2 satisfaction of both autonomy and competence were not significant and thus were not included in the structural model used to test for mediation.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Well-Being
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“The covariances between the residual variances of Time 1 and Time 2 satisfaction of both autonomy and competence, as well as between Time 1 and Time 2 anxiety, were not significant”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Ill-Being
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“All factor loadings were significant (p < .01) and ranged in magnitude from .59 to .86 (mean λ = .72).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Well-Being
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“The covariances between the residual variances of Time 1 importance and Time 2 attainment of both personal growth and money were not significant and thus were not included in the model used to test the fit of the structural model.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Primary Analyses: Structural Modeling of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“In contrast, attainment of the extrinsic aspirations for money, fame, and image was unrelated to basic psychological need satisfaction and related slightly negatively to psychological health.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Conclusion
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“In short, to the extent that goal attainment does not provide basic psychological need satisfaction, it is unlikely to yield long-term psychological health benefits and may cause some decrements.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Attainment of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“Sheldon and Kasser (1998) reported that students' overall progress toward goal attainment during a semester was beneficial for their psychological health.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Attainment of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“However, SDT argues that it is primarily when people attain intrinsic (rather than extrinsic) goals that they will experience greater well-being and less ill-being because it is only attainment of intrinsic goals that is likely to provide satisfaction of their basic psychological needs.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Attainment of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“The reliability for this measure was α = .91 at Time 1 and α = .92 at Time 2.”
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“The reliability for this measure was α = .86 at Time 1 and α = .84 at Time 2.”
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“Ryan, Sheldon, Kasser, and Deci (1996) suggested that the key difference between intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations, and the reason that the two groups of aspirations are differentially related to psychological health, is the degree to which those goals are linked to satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are considered by SDT to be the cor”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Relation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations to Need Satisfaction
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ryan, Sheldon, Kasser, and Deci (1996)
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“This research began with studies by Kasser and Ryan (1993) showing that people who strongly valued financial success relative to personal growth, close relationships, and community involvement reported poorer psychological health, suggesting a potential ‘dark side to the American dream.’”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Pursuit of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kasser and Ryan (1993) source
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“More specifically, SDT theorizes that the relations of the two types of aspirations to satisfaction of the basic psychological needs involves two components: first, that satisfaction of the basic psychological needs across development will promote higher importance of intrinsic (rather than extrinsic) aspirations; second, that the pursuit and attainment of intrinsic (rather than extrinsic)”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Relation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations to Need Satisfaction
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“Kasser and Ryan (1996) reported that the importance to individuals of pursuing intrinsic (relative to extrinsic) aspirations related positively to various indicators of well-being, including positive affect, vitality, and self-actualization, and related negatively to various indicators of ill-being, including depression, anxiety, and physical symptoms.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Pursuit of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kasser and Ryan (1996) source
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“Finally, one year after that, 147 (90% of the sample) were successfully contacted and returned their surveys.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Method > Participants and Procedure
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“Similarly, Williams, Cox, Hedberg, and Deci (2000) found that high school students who reported that their parents were autonomy-supportive (and thus promoted basic psychological need satisfaction) placed more importance on intrinsic (relative to extrinsic) aspirations and were less likely to engage in risky health behaviors, including use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Relation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations to Need Satisfaction
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“Together, these results provide initial evidence that attainment of intrinsic, but not extrinsic, aspirations relates positively to psychological health and social functioning.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Attainment of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“These results suggest that the observed variables relate only to their underlying latent constructs and that the residual variances relate to one another as expected, and therefore provide justification for proceeding to test the hypothesized structural relations (Cole & Maxwell, 2003).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Primary Analyses: Structural Modeling of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“Discussion focuses on the idea that not all goal attainment is beneficial; rather, attainment of aspirations with different contents relates differentially to psychological health.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Abstract
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“The reliability for each subscale was as follows: autonomy α = .72 at Time 1 and α = .73 at Time 2, competence α = .73 at both Time 1 and Time 2, and relatedness α = .82 at Time 1 and α = .83 at Time 2.”
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“The 21-item Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction Scale-General (e.g., Gagné, 2003) assessed satisfaction of autonomy (seven items; e.g., I generally feel free to express my ideas and opinions), competence (six items; e.g., People I know tell me I am good at what I do), and relatedness (eight items; e.g., I get along with people I come into contact with).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Method > Measures
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“More specifically, SDT theorizes that the relations of the two types of aspirations to satisfaction of the basic psychological needs involves two components: first, that satisfaction of the basic psychological needs across development will promote higher importance of intrinsic (rather than extrinsic) aspirations; second, that the pursuit and attainment of intrinsic (rather than extrinsic)”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Relation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations to Need Satisfaction
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“The reliability for this measure was α = .87 at both Time 1 and Time 2.”
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“The reliability for this measure was α = .85 at Time 1 and α = .84 at Time 2.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Method > Measures
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“The intrinsic factor was so labeled because its goals are expressive of humans' inherent growth tendency and are conducive to satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness; the other factor was labeled extrinsic because its goals typically are pursued as a means to some separable outcome and are not directly linked”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Pursuit of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kasser & Ryan, 1996 source
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“Most of the studies that have examined those relations, however, have focused on the association between psychological health and the pursuit or valuing of intrinsic (relative to extrinsic) aspirations (Kasser, 2002), with very few having focused on the attainment of those aspirations.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Relation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations to Need Satisfaction
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“Most contemporary goal theorists suggest that people feel good when they attain their goals (Emmons, 1986) and that goal attainment is beneficial to psychological health (Carver & Scheier, 1990; Locke & Latham, 1990).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > The Attainment of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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- Not matchedcites Emmons, 1986
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Carver & Scheier, 1990
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“the reliability for the negative affect subscale was α = .88 at Time 1 and α = .91 at Time 2.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Method > Measures
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“The reliability for the positive affect subscale was α = .91 at both Time 1 and Time 2;”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Method > Measures
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“Thus, Step 1 for mediation was satisfied for the relation of change in attainment of intrinsic, but not extrinsic, aspirations to change in ill-being.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Ill-Being
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“all data were collected with self-report measures.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Limitations
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“past research on goal striving that has found that goal attainment relates positively to various indices of psychological health, including positive affect (e.g., Emmons & Diener, 1986), life satisfaction (e.g., Emmons, 1986), and subjective well-being (e.g., Sheldon & Elliot, 1999).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“our sample was rather homogenous. Most participants were Caucasian Americans and all were recent college graduates.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Limitations
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“as Wheeler and Miyake (1992) reported, upward social comparisons are associated with lower well-being”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Wheeler and Miyake (1992) source
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“the reason for this is that the attainment of intrinsic aspirations is closely related to satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, whereas the attainment of extrinsic aspirations is unrelated to basic psychological need satisfaction.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Broader Implications
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“it seems that attainment of intrinsic aspirations is associated with psychological health because those goals are closely related to satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“considerable work has indicated that the pursuit of extrinsic aspirations is strongly negatively related to mental health.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“Thus, as hypothesized, attainment of intrinsic aspirations related positively to psychological health, whereas attainment of extrinsic aspirations was somewhat negatively related to psychological health.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Primary Analyses: Structural Modeling of Aspirations and Psychological Health
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“attainment of intrinsic aspirations maintained a strong relation to psychological health when allowed to compete for variance with attainment of extrinsic aspirations.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“much research suggests that successful goal attainment is conducive to psychological health (e.g., Emmons, 1986)”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Broader Implications
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- Not matchedcites Emmons, 1986
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“it seems that the actual attainment of extrinsic aspirations does not interfere with basic psychological need satisfaction, although as our results suggest, neither does it facilitate such need satisfaction.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“to the extent that extrinsic aspirations are out of balance with intrinsic aspirations, their pursuit and attainment are expected to be unrelated to basic psychological need satisfaction and to relate negatively to psychological health (Ryan, Huta, & Deci, 2008).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“All factor loadings were significant (p < .01) and ranged in magnitude from .56 to .93 (mean λ = .73).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Ill-Being
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“From the perspective of SDT, the content (viz., intrinsic and extrinsic) of people's life goals is expected to relate differentially to satisfaction of the basic psychological needs, which in turn is expected to predict psychological health.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“The restricted model yielded acceptable fit, χ2 (270) = 488.84, p < .01; χ2/df = 1.81; CFI = .91; NNFI = .88; RMSEA = .06. Importantly, this model did not differ significantly from the baseline model, Δχ2 (9) = 8.77, p = .46.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Ill-Being
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“this research on goal striving did not consider the content of the goals.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“our perspective, which is based on a theory of basic psychological needs (i.e., SDT), suggests that certain goals are conducive to psychological health, whereas others are not, even when those latter goals are valued and attained.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Broader Implications
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“Thus, Step 1 for mediation was satisfied for the relation of change in attainment of intrinsic, but not extrinsic, aspirations to change in well-being.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Well-Being
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“change in attainment of extrinsic aspirations does not relate positively to change in psychological health, presumably because it does not relate positively to change in satisfaction of the basic psychological needs”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“these findings are rather striking, as they suggest that attainment of a particular set of goals (viz., extrinsic aspirations) has no impact on well-being and actually contributes to ill-being.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion
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“Findings based on the self-concordance model suggest that personal strivings (Emmons, 1986) and personal projects (Little, 1993) that are pursued for more autonomous reasons are more likely to be attained, and that attainment of self-concordant goals is particularly conducive to enhanced subjective well-being over time (e.g., Sheldon & Elliot, 1998, 1999; Sheldon & Houser-Marko, 2001).”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Broader Implications
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- Not matchedcites Emmons, 1986
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- Not matchedcites Little, 1993
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- Not matchedcites Sheldon & Elliot, 1998, 1999
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“which suggests that any associations between change in latent constructs are due to actual change in the constructs (Hertzog & Nesselroade, 2003), rather than to differences in how participants understood and/or reported the observed variables at Time 1 and Time 2.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Results > Change in Well-Being
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hertzog & Nesselroade, 2003 source
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“our findings were correlational, so they do not provide evidence for the direction of effects among the constructs under investigation.”
§ The Path Taken: Consequences of Attaining Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspirations in Post-College Life > Discussion > Limitations
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Life goals, or aspirations, organize and direct behavior over extended periods of time.
“Life goals, or aspirations, organize and direct behavior over extended periods of time.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The post-college transition is a critical developmental period in which individuals can begin implementing the goals they have adopted and internalized.
“This is a critical developmental period that marks people's transition into their adult identities and lives, as during this time individuals actually can begin to implement the goals they have adopted and internalized.”
Statistics recomputed
Every reported test result, recomputed from its test statistic and degrees of freedom. A result shows as not adding up only once an independent check has confirmed it.
- Consistentt(132) = 2.39reported p < .05 · recomputed p = .018
“t (132) = 2.39, p < .05”
- Consistentt(141) = 2.24reported p < .05 · recomputed p = .027
“t (141) = 2.24, p < .05”
- Consistentχ²(147) = 251.19reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (147) = 251.19, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(155) = 262.52reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (155) = 262.52, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(258) = 507.18reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (258) = 507.18, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(260) = 507.93reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (260) = 507.93, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(269) = 512.59reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (269) = 512.59, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(9) = 4.65reported p = .86 · recomputed p = .864
“χ2 (9) = 4.65, p = .86”
- Consistentχ²(258) = 479.55reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (258) = 479.55, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(261) = 480.07reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (261) = 480.07, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(270) = 488.84reported p < .01 · recomputed p < .001
“χ2 (270) = 488.84, p < .01”
- Consistentχ²(9) = 8.77reported p = .46 · recomputed p = .459
“χ2 (9) = 8.77, p = .46”
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“Mediation was tested using the Baron and Kenny (1986) method.”
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“Indeed, in the current study, attainment of intrinsic aspirations related positively to psychological health, whereas attainment of extrinsic aspirations was either unrelated or negatively related to psychological health, which is consistent with SDT predictions (Deci & Ryan, 2000; Niemiec et al., in press; Ryan & Dec…”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Niemiec, C. P., Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester (US)
- Corresponding author
- Niemiec, Christopher P.
- Venue
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-06
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 291-306
- ISSN
- 0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2736104
- OpenAlex
- W2102234947
- Cited by
- 509
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 39 · 2018: 42 · 2017: 38 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 28
- FWCI
- 21.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Research in Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH053385)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Human Behavior and Motivation
- Keywords
- intrinsic aspirations, goal achievement, life goals, self-determination theory, mental health, ill-being, basic psychological needs, autonomy, competence, relatedness, coming of age
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