Tell Me Who You Are and I Tell You How You Think about Your Goals: Background Variables’ Associations with Spontaneous Self-Regulatory Thought

Poster Session VI

Keyword: Motivation

Abstract: We found small yet significant associations between key background variables and spontaneous mode of self-regulatory thought: The Extraversion and Openness personality traits, and one’s gender, age, and educational degree as well as the category of the goal in question can all affect how individuals freely think about their desired future.

• Birte Thissen (Presenting Author)
• Michael Barthelmäs (Author)
• Dominik Stöckle (Author)
• Johannes Keller (Author)
• Gabriele Oettingen (Author)