Personal construal of life tasks
Those who struggle for independence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabrina Zirkel (0009-0001-8421-633X, University of Michigan), Nancy Cantor |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 172-185 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.58.1.172 |
| OpenAlex | W4231130872 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 15 |
Life tasks serve as an avenue for individuals to give personal meaning to their lives and to organize personal effort and activities. The present data, from a longitudinal study of the transition to college life, demonstrate how construals of life tasks can help to illuminate individuals' activity choices and affective experience of daily life activities. Ss who were absorbed in the task of "being on my own, away from family," also invested their academic activities with special significance. They experienced more stress and less satisfaction from their (considerable) academic accomplishments than did those who framed their tasks in more concrete terms. Experience-sampling data showed that activity choices followed from life task concerns, even when such activities were particularly anxiety-provoking. Discussion considers how similar life task themes may be enacted differently in other contexts
Construal level theory · Independence (probability theory · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Cultural Differences and Values · Early Childhood Education and Development · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
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Personal Goals in Social Roles
Goals for solving everyday problems across the life span
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personality
Motives and Life Goals
Contingencies of self-worth.
Experience Sampling
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Beyond a Two-Goal Theory of Motivation and Achievement
Avoidance Personal Goals and Subjective Well-Being
The Motivational Impact of Temporal Focus
Variability in Goals as a Function of Same-Sex and Other-Sex Contexts
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Social pursuit of academics
Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs
How goal instrumentality shapes relationship evaluations
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Representations of Self and Other
Goal Construction, Reconstruction and Depressive Symptoms in a Life‐Span Context
Juxtaposed Scripts, Traits, and the Dynamics of Personality
Life Tasks and Daily Life Experience
Self‐with‐Other Representations and a Taxonomy of Motives
Personal projects, life stories, and happiness
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Future orientation
The emergence of goal pursuit
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Cognitive and motivational processes underlying coping flexibility
Intercorrelations of Intimacy and Identity Dating Goals with Relationship Behaviors and Satisfaction among Young Heterosexual Couples
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Uncertainty and Confidence in Interpersonal Projects
Dimensional Specificity in the Prediction of Subjective Well-Being
Consequences of commitment to and disengagement from incentives.
Personal Projects Analysis
Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction
What do people think they're doing? Action identification and human behavior
The sampling of experiences in situ
Loneliness
Choice and avoidance of everyday situations and affect congruence
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Personal strivings
Social anxiety and social constraint
The course of individual adaptation to life changes
Life tasks, self-concept ideals, and cognitive strategies in a life transition
Personality in the life course
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| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2018 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |