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Goal constructs in psychology: Structure, process, and content.

Austin, James T., Vancouver, Jeffrey B.·1996·Psychological Bulletin

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“This is because personal goals are assumed to be the most immediate and conscious motivational determinants of action [4].”
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“Goals are cognitive representations of desired results, ranging from biological set points, such as body temperature, to complex, long-term outcomes, such as career success (Austin & Vancouver, 1996).”
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“The assessment of goals and the relationship between goal constructs and health-related outcomes is a relatively new area of inquiry (cf. Austin and Vancouver, 1996 ).”
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“…confirm that prospection does not only maintain the structural properties of the real world (Kosslyn, 1973, 1994; Rouw et al., 1997), but is also sensitive to personal goals and the temporal salience of events (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; D’Argembeau & Demblon, 2012; D’Argembeau & Mathy, 2011).”
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“set and achieve goals, given, moreover, that agents typically have more than one goal simultaneously, that goals are often in conflict, and that they tend to be arranged in hierarchies which may not be entirely stable (Austin and Vancouver 1996).”
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Concurrent management of exercise with other valued life goals: Comparison of frequent and less frequent exercisers
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“In service encounters, customers use a feedback seeking process to monitor the extent to which the characterstics of service experience help them to achieve their goals (Austin and Vancouver 1996).”
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Neurocognitive free will
Hills, T. T. (2019) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0510 · Cited by 30
“Hierarchical goal representations allow for one tomaintain high-level goals while exploring over subgoals [74,76,77].”
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“Third, while there are a number of published definitions and discussions about goals (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Bradley, Bogardus, Tinetti, & Inouye, 1999; Locke & Latham, 1990; Sivaraman Nair, 2003; Wade, 2009), their nature remains complex.”
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Do Work Values Predict the Use of Intraorganizational Influence Strategies?
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“Now, according to one standard definition in psychology, goals are “internal representations of desired states” (Austin & Vancouver 1996: 338).”
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Using a Computational Model to Understand Possible Sources of Skews in Distributions of Job Performance
Vancouver, J. B., Li, X., Weinhardt, J. M., Steel, P., & Purl, J. D. (2015) · Personnel Psychology · doi:10.1111/peps.12141 · Cited by 27
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“Austin and Vancouver (1996) indicate that the dominant conceptualization of goal structures is hierarchical.”
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“Goals are internal representations of desired states (Austin & Vancouver, 1996).”
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The perceived profile of goal orientation within firms: Differences between employees working for successful and unsuccessful firms employing either performance-based pay or job-based pay
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“The concept of goals is at the centre of almost all major theories used to explain motivational processes and outcomes (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Mitchell, 1997).”
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An integrated utility-based model of conflict evaluation and resolution in the Stroop task.
Chuderski, A., & Smoleń, T. (2016) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/a0039979 · Cited by 28
“Importantly, a special role in integrating the interplay of all these mechanisms has been attributed to goal representations (see Austin & Vancouver, 1996), which help to select (Anderson & Lebiere, 1998; Gollwitzer, 1993; Miller, Galanter, & Pribram, 1960; Newell & Simon, 1972), or at least guide…”
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Self-regulatory cognition and immune reactivity: idiographic success and failure feedback effects on the natural killer cell
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“If people want to reach or maintain a desired goal state, they have to react to discrepancies (e.g., Austin & Vancouver, 1996), thus, the perception of such a discrepancy plays a crucial role in selecting and initiating instrumental action (Custers & Aarts, 2005; Diefendorff & Chandler, 2010).”
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Taylor, J. C., & Wilson, J. C. (2016) · Journal of Applied Social Psychology · doi:10.1111/jasp.12383 · Cited by 25
“Whilst much research investigates goal-setting and goal-achievement (e.g. Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Locke & Latham, 2002; Pintritch, Conley, & Kempler, 2004), the current research explored the non-achievement of goals.”
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“Goals are generally conceptualized as cognitive representations of specific desired outcomes or end states that the individual is committed to either approach or avoid; therefore, they guide behaviors, emotions, and cognitions [26,27].”
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“To provide a theoretical framework for this account, we make use of the concept of goal constructs, or the mental representation of goals with their congruent means (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Kruglanski et al., 2002).”
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“Goals play a primary role in directing and regulating human behavior through their definition of desired future states (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Bandura, 1986; Ford & Nichols, 1987; Pervin, 1989).”
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A conceptual framework for understanding self-regulation in adults
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“Becoming old has been described as a life task in which individuals have to adjust their goals and aspirations to age-related constraints and restrictions in order to maintain personal continuity (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Carver & Scheier, 2001; Emmons, 1986).”
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“Using the motivational research in psychology (Austin & Vancouver, 1996), this paper conceptualized and verified motivation as a hierarchical structure.”
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“Moreover, goal setting is important to the enactment of intentions (Abraham & Sheeran, 2003b ; Austin & Vancouver; 1996 ).”
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“In contrast to ‘gains’, ‘goals’ have been studied widely (for a review see Austin and Vancouver 1996).”
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“One’s sense of global meaning develops within a broader cultural context (Austin and Vancouver, 1996).”
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“Previous studies have reported that gender influences the choice of life goals [70,71], which represent personal strivings valued by the individual [13,63].”
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“In addition, values are abstract cognition that gives a complete code of life and is essential in determining an individual’s attitude (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Dreezens et al., 2005).”
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“Goals de ﬁ ne desirable states people want to attain and want to keep once attained (see Austin & Vancouver, 1996).”
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“Given that individuals regularly pursue multiple goals (e.g., Austin & Vancouver, 1996), it is important to examine whether planning helps people reach their physical activity goals in a real-world context, where goal striving is threatened by the pursuit of other goals (Presseau, Tait, Johnston,…”
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Participation-Engagement: A Philosophically Based Heuristic for Prioritizing Clinical Interventions in the Treatment of Comorbid, Complex, and Chronic Psychiatric Conditions
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“Research has documented the benefits of proximal, specific, and moderately challenging goals on achievement outcomes (e.g., Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Locke & Latham, 2002; Schunk, 1990, 2003).”
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“Psychological research also addresses goal constructs in relation to 246 JGM 6,3/4 the progress associated with the understanding of cognition, personality and motivation, defining personal goals as internal representations of desired states (Austin and Vancouver, 1996, p. 338).”
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Personality differences as predictors of action-goal relationships in work-email activity
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“Austin and Vancouver (1996) have argued that the relationships between goal dimensions should be tested by structural modelling.”
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Alcohol breeds empty goal commitments.
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“…the goal (Brunstein, 1993), willingness to invest effort (Hollenbeck, Klein, O’Leary, & Wright, 1989), willingness to persist in goal striving (Austin & Vancouver, 1996), taking on responsibility for goal attainment (Oettingen, Pak, & Schnetter, 2001), interest in reaching the goal (Wicklund…”
BackgroundMethod
Episodic future thinking: the role of working memory and inhibition on age-related differences
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“Just as attitudes differ not only in their valence (i.e. positive vs . negative) and extremity (i.e. how positive or how negative) but also in their strength (Krosnick & Petty 1995), so too intentions may differ in their strength and priority (Austin & Vancouver 1996).”
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Planning health behaviour change: comparing the behavioural influence of two types of self-regulatory planning.
van Osch, L., Reubsaet, A., Lechner, L., Beenackers, M., Candel, M., & de Vries, H. (2010) · British Journal of Health Psychology · doi:10.1348/135910709x436723 · Cited by 29
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“People set their psychosomatic effort in accordance to what actions they anticipate are needed for a given performance type and level (Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Bandura & Jourden, 1991; Campion & Lord, 1982; Kruglanski et al., 2002; Shah & Kruglanski, 2000; Shah, Kruglanski, & Friedman, 2003).”
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Procrastinators lack a broad action perspective
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Conceptualizing means-end chains of user goals as networks
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Motivating Adolescents: Goals for Australian Students in Secondary Schools.
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“…to postpone grati ﬁ cation and override automatic or habitual response tendencies (Bauer & Baumeister, 2011; Ne ˛ cka, 2005), and it is necessary for successful goal attainment, especially when obstacles and restrictions appear (e.g., Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Fishbach, Dhar, & Zhang, 2006).”
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Authors: Austin, J. T., & Vancouver, J. B.
Affiliations: The Ohio State University (US)
ORCID: Vancouver, Jeffrey B.
Venue: Psychological Bulletin
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 1996-11
Volume: 120
Issue: 3
Pages: 338-375
ISSN: 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
1939-1455
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.120.3.338
OpenAlex: W2075289001
Semantic Scholar: 0539efa59c31b4c9b22f866f1b3c65eedb554856
Cited by: 2,319
References: 474
Citations by year: 2026: 62 · 2025: 76 · 2024: 76 · 2023: 224 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 108 · 2020: 148 · 2019: 93 · 2018: 89 · 2017: 110 · 2016: 93 · 2015: 117 · 2014: 85 · 2013: 94 · 2012: 118
FWCI: 23.42
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cognitive and psychological constructs research
Keywords: goal setting, goal structure, goal content, motivation, achievement motivation

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