Sacrificial goals: The antecedents and consequences of sacrificing basic psychological needs in the pursuit of career goals
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Abstract
Pursuing long-term career goals often leads people to make sacrifices that can have enduring affective and self-regulatory costs.We investigated whether sacrificing basic psychological needs to reach a career goal was detrimental beyond the sacrifice of physical needs (e.g., sleep) or core activities (e.g., time with friends) using a year-long, 6-wave, prospective study of 310 young adults actively pursuing a career goal.Career goal motivation, aspirations and career demandingness were assessed at the start of a school year, while three forms of sacrifice were assessed at midyear.Psychological distress and self-regulation were assessed at both the beginning and end of the school year.Results showed that psychological need sacrifice was associated with increased psychological distress and decreased career-and personal goal progress over the year.Moreover, results suggested that psychological need sacrifice stemmed from career demandingness, introjected motivation and extrinsic aspirations.Implications of these findings for basic psychological needs theory (BPNT) and long-term goal pursuit are discussed.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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