Goals

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Motivational beliefs, values, and goals.

This chapter reviews the recent research on motivation, beliefs, values, and goals, focusing on developmental and educational psychology. The authors divide the chapter into four major sections: theories focused on expectancies for success (self-efficacy ...
Jacquelynne S Eccles, Allan Wigfield (Annu Rev Psychol, 2002)
motivational-beliefs-values-goals.asp

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Goal specificity and learning with a hypermedia program.

Problem solving research has found that a nonspecific goal (NSG) leads to better learning than a specific goal (SG). This effect can be understood in terms of dual-space search theories of problem solving. To apply the theory, we studied goal specificity ...
Regina Vollmeyer, Bruce D Burns (Exp Psychol, 2002)
goal-specificity-learning-hypermedia-program.asp

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Dimensionality and construct validity of School Development Expectation Scale for secondary students.

This study aims to establish the dimensionality and construct validity of the School Development Expectation Scale for use with Year 12 students. The scale is made up of five expectation subscales in the vocational, academic, personal, social and ...
Mo Ching Magdalena Mok, Marcellin Flynn (J Appl Meas, 2002)
dimensionality-construct-validity-school-development-expectation.asp

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Proportionality, terminal suffering and the restorative goals of medicine.

Recent years have witnessed a growing concern that terminally ill patients are needlessly suffering in the dying process. This has led to demands that physicians become more attentive in the assessment of suffering and that they treat their patients as ...
Lynn A Jansen, Daniel P Sulmasy (Theor Med Bioeth, 2002)
proportionality-terminal-suffering-restorative-goals-medicine.asp

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Influences of age and gender on workers goals for retirement.

Having clear goals for retirement is a critical determinant of life satisfaction and adjustment during the post-employment transition period. The purpose of the present study was to explore individuals goals for retirement and determine whether age and ...
Douglas A Hershey, Joy M Jacobs-Lawson, Kirstan A Neukam (Int J Aging Hum Dev, 2002)
influences-age-gender-workers-goals-retirement.asp