Managing Life Through Personal Goals: Intergoal Facilitation and Intensity of Goal Pursuit in Younger and Older Adulthood | Zendy

Michaela Riediger | Zendy; Alexandra M. Freund | Zendy; P. B. Baltes | Zendy

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Managing Life Through Personal Goals: Intergoal Facilitation and Intensity of Goal Pursuit in Younger and Older Adulthood

Author(s) -

Michaela Riediger,

Alexandra M. Freund,

P. B. Baltes

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/60.2.p84

Subject(s) - facilitation , goal pursuit , psychology , context (archaeology) , goal orientation , successful aging , developmental psychology , goal setting , young adult , gerontology , social psychology , medicine , paleontology , neuroscience , biology

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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