Conditional goal-setting, personal goals and hopelessness about the future
Conditional goal-setting, personal goals and hopelessness about the future
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DOI：
10.1080/02699930903122521
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
MacLeod, Andrew K.
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作者：
Hadley, Sandra A.;MacLeod, Andrew K.
那些高度绝望的人保留了个人目标，但认为这些目标相对不太可能实现。目前的研究试图理解为什么人们仍然处于这种痛苦的投入状态，而不是从无法实现的目标中解脱出来。在一个抑郁症自助组织的志愿者样本中，正如预期的那样，绝望程度与人们能够想到的目标数量无关，但与人们对这些目标实现的可能性缺乏信心有关。那些更绝望的人也表现出有条件的目标设定，他们更强烈地相信，只有实现了这些特定的目标，他们才会快乐、满足和有自我价值感，这与绝望有关，而不是抑郁或焦虑。有条件的目标设定有助于解释为什么人们仍然致力于他们认为无法实现的目标，并为干预绝望提供了机会。
Those high in hopelessness retain personal goals but believe that those goals are relatively unlikely to come about. The present study attempted to understand why people remain in this state of painful engagement rather than detaching from unattainable goals. Within a sample of volunteers from a depression self-help organisation levels of hopelessness, as expected, were unrelated to number of goals people were able to think of but were related to a lack of belief in the likelihood of those goals being achieved. Those higher in hopelessness also showed conditional goal settingthey believed more strongly that they would only be able to be happy, fulfilled and have a sense of self-worth if those particular goals were achieved, which was related to hopelessness rather than depression or anxiety. Conditional goal setting helps to explain why people remain engaged with goals they perceive as unattainable and suggests opportunities for interventions for hopelessness.