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

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    Authors
    Riddell, Hugh
    Lamont, Wesley
    Lombard, Merrill
    Paduano, S.
    Maltagliati, S.
    Gucciardi, Daniel F.
    Ntoumanis, Nikos
    Date
    2024
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Riddell, H. and Lamont, W. and Lombard, M. and Paduano, S. and Maltagliati, S. and Gucciardi, D.F. and Ntoumanis, N. 2024. Autonomous motivation promotes goal attainment through the conscious investment of effort, but mental contrasting with implementation intentions makes goal striving easier. Journal of Social Psychology. 164 (2): pp. 230-243.
    Source Title
    Journal of Social Psychology
    DOI
    10.1080/00224545.2022.2163610
    ISSN
    0022-4545
    Faculty
    Faculty of Health Sciences
    School
    Curtin School of Population Health
    Curtin School of Allied Health
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200101555
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    This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology on 01 Jan 2023, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2022.2163610.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96482
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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 relations between motives and goal attainment for a competitive cycling goal. Additionally, half the participants (n = 57) were trained in Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII)–a technique that facilitates development of goal-directed behavior–with remaining participants (n = 54) treated as controls. Conscious investment of effort mediated relations between autonomous motives and goal attainment. Subjective ease of goal striving and physiological effort did not. This result indicates that successful goal striving is not perceived as effortless for autonomously motivated individuals working on competitive goals. Conversely, MCII predicted a reduction in obstacles, which in turn was associated with easier goal striving but not goal attainment. Although MCII did not support goal attainment in the current study, its ability to minimize the influence of obstacles may still be useful for other types of goals or for sustaining long-term goal pursuit.

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