Don't give up? It's a little complicated: Action Crisis Moderates Consequences of goal support.

ABSTRACT: Social support for goals can be beneficial for goal pursuit, but often has unintended negative consequences for the recipient. We propose that action crisis-the state in which an individual is considering disengaging from a goal they are currently pursuing-may result in people experiencing more ambivalent reactions to goal support. Drawing on both experimental and longitudinal methods, we show that action crisis increases negative consequences of goal support, but does not reduce positive consequences of goal support. In Study 1, we experimentally manipulated goal phase (action crisis, deliberative, or implemental) and had participants imagine support or neutral interactions. In Study 2, we measured experiences of action crisis and receipt of goal support in first-year pre-health students

SUBMITTER: Light AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9486774 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature