The Goal Characteristics (GC) questionannaire: A comprehensive measure for goals’ content, attainability, interestingness, and usefulness
Many studies have investigated how goal characteristics affect goal achievement. However, most of them considered only a small number of characteristics and the psychometric properties of their measures remains unclear. To overcome these limitations, we developed and validated a comprehensive questionnaire of goal characteristics with four subscales - measuring the goal’s content, attainability, interestingness, and usefulness respectively. 590 participants completed the questionnaire online. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the four subscales and their structure. The GC questionnaire (https://osf.io/qfhup) can be easily applied to investigate goal setting, pursuit and adjustment in a wide range of contexts.
| Author(s): | Gabriela Iwama and Maria Wirzberger and Falk Lieder |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Month: | June |
| Project(s): | |
| Bibtex Type: | Conference Paper (conference) |
| DOI: | 10.13140/RG.2.2.24237.84961 |
| Event Name: | 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making |
| Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
BibTex
@conference{Iwama2019SJDM,
title = {The Goal Characteristics (GC) questionannaire: A comprehensive measure for goals' content, attainability, interestingness, and usefulness},
abstract = {Many studies have investigated how goal characteristics affect goal achievement. However, most of them considered only a small number of characteristics and the psychometric properties of their measures remains unclear. To overcome these limitations, we developed and validated a comprehensive questionnaire of goal characteristics with four subscales - measuring the goal’s content, attainability, interestingness, and usefulness respectively. 590 participants completed the questionnaire online. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the four subscales and their structure. The GC questionnaire (https://osf.io/qfhup) can be easily applied to investigate goal setting, pursuit and adjustment in a wide range of contexts.},
month = jun,
year = {2019},
slug = {iwama2019sjdm},
author = {Iwama, Gabriela and Wirzberger, Maria and Lieder, Falk},
month_numeric = {6}
}