Book chapter 2014

Goal management across adulthood and old age: The adaptive value of primary and secondary control

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Wrosch, Carsten
 HJ
Heckhausen, Jutta
 LM
Lachman, Margie E.
Handbook of Personality Development
Journal · pp. 399-421
Abstract

This chapter addresses the adaptive value of goal-related motivational processes for successful development across the adult life span. Goals play an important role in successful development because they are the building blocks that structure people's lives and imbue life with purpose, both in the short run and on a long-term basis (Carver & Scheier, 1998; Heckhausen, 1999a; Ryff, 1989). Therefore, processes that are functionally associated with achieving personal goals and managing the negative consequences of goal failure can be expected to contribute to pathways of successful development. © 2006 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

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University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, United States
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