Autonomous motivation promotes goal attainment through the conscious investment of effort, but mental contrasting with implementation intentions makes goal striving easier

People with autonomous motives (e.g., personal importance) may use automated strategies to effortlessly sustain goal-directed behavior and overcome obstacles. We investigated whether conscious effort, ease of goal striving, physiological effort, and the number of obstacles encountered mediate relati...

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Main Authors: Riddell, Hugh, Lamont, Wesley, Lombard, Merrill, Paduano, S., Maltagliati, S., Gucciardi, Daniel F., Ntoumanis, Nikos
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2024
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200101555
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96482