Personal strivings
An approach to personality and subjective well-being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6206490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Emmons (Michigan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1058-1068 |
| Publication date | 1986-11-01 |
| 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 | 10.1037/0022-3514.51.5.1058 |
| OpenAlex | W1964152500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 413 |
| References cited | 20 |
Big Five personality traits · Developmental psychology · Personality · Psychotherapist · Well-being · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
Perspectiva de Tiempo Futuro y su relevancia motivacional en distintos contextos educativos
Towards a Better-Functioning Private Rented Sector in Metropolitan China
The Joy Is Mine
Gender differential item functioning analysis in measuring computational thinking disposition among secondary school students
Cross-cultural generality and specificity in self-regulation
Satisfied yet striving
Happiness and unhappiness in east and west
Commitment to a purpose in life
Effort in emotion work and well-being
Confidence game
Managers’ Competencies Framework
Is Spirituality an Intelligence? Motivation, Cognition, and the Psychology of Ultimate Concern
Research
Hopes and Fears for the Future Among Chinese Adolescents
How do adolescents see their future? A review of the development of future orientation and planning
Adolescent goal content and pursuit
Capturing the Dynamic Nature of Personality
Means-Ends Spirituality Questionnaire
The link between sacrifice and relational and personal well-being
Goal constructs in psychology
Sex differences in positive well-being
Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world
Subjective well-being
Making sense of the meaning literature
Need satisfaction and involvement in personal projects
Abstract versus concrete goals
Wealth and happiness across the world
Physical attractiveness and subjective well-being
Whether I like it or not, it’s important”
Daily Goals, Life Goals, and Worst Fears
A Motivational Analysis of Defensive Pessimism and Self‐Handicapping
Personal Goals in Social Roles
The Role of Dispositional Traits in Accounting for Country and Ethnic Group Differences on Adjustment
Self-Regulation of Normative and Non-Normative Developmental Challenges 1
Goals for solving everyday problems across the life span
Feeling loved and integrated or lonely and rejected in everyday life
From thought to behavior
The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation
Cognitive Self‐Regulation and Depression
Goal Engagement During the School–Work Transition
Romantic Passion as Output from a Self-Regulating, Intimacy-Seeking System
Why are some people happier than others? The role of cognitive and motivational processes in well-being
Gain in the Caregiving Experience
Personality, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being
Making good
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
Target Article
Getting to the “COR”
On Happiness and Human Potentials
Genetics of Personality
Personality Strengths
Holding On or Letting Go? Persistence and Disengagement in Goal Striving
When Is Identity Congruent with the Self? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
A Conceptual History of Personality Psychology
Motives and Life Goals
Handbook of Motivation at School
The Relationship Between Self‐Compassion and Well‐Being
The American Dream in Russia
Evolutionary Personality Psychology
On the relations among work value orientations, psychological need satisfaction and job outcomes
Negotiating the Transition to Middle School
Narrating life's turning points
A motivational theory of life-span development.
Personality, Modernity, and the Storied Self
Transactive goal dynamics.
Personality Development
Curiosity and Exploration
Personal or interpersonal construal of happiness
The Motivational Impact of Temporal Focus
Origins and functions of positive and negative affect
Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being
Youth Life Satisfaction
Self-Control and Grit
Toward a Quality-of-Life Theory of Leisure Travel Satisfaction
Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development
How to increase and sustain positive emotion
Explaining the Paradox
Age Differences in Adult Life Goals, Concerns, and Their Temporal Extension
The Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale
Of Wealth and Death
Cognitive‐Experiential Self‐Theory of Personality
Goal Theory, Motivation, and School Achievement
Action, Emotion, and Personality
Integrating The Diverse Definitions of Happiness
Hope and optimism as related to life satisfaction
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering
The Psychological Self as Actor, Agent, and Author
The Health Benefits of Writing about Life Goals
Explaining Differences in Societal Levels of Happiness
Toward a Unifying Theoretical and Practical Perspective on Well-Being and Psychosocial Adjustment.
Meaning Making and Growth
The Measurement of Values and Individualism-Collectivism
Adolescent Development in an Age-graded Context
Achievement Goals and the Hierarchical Model of Achievement Motivation
Linking Goal Progress and Subjective Well-Being
(The Feeling of) Meaning-as-Information
Contingencies of self-worth.
Not all Personal Goals are Personal
How Do People Pursue Happiness?
A self‐determination theory approach to understanding stress incursion and responses
The structure of psychological well-being
The psychology of self-determination
Social Indicators of Well-Being
Personality Correlates of Subjective Well-Being
The act frequency approach to personality.
Teleonomic Description in the Study of Personality
The sampling of experiences in situ
Studying personality in the context of an advanced motivational psychology
Schizotaxia, schizotypy, schizophrenia
A goal-affect analysis of everyday situational choices
Motivational correlates of thought content frequency and commitment
Choice and avoidance of everyday situations and affect congruence
Traits, Consistency and Conceptual Alternatives for Personality Theory
Situational and transituational determinants of adolescent self-feelings
Perceived life satisfaction and the organization of personal project systems
Encoding and decoding of nonverbal affect in humans
New measure of daily coping
Traumatic experience and psychosomatic disease
Negative affectivity
Factors predicting satisfaction judgments
| Unique citing works | 413 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,59 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2026 (40) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 376 |