Study Brunstein (1993): study DE 1988
- Public
- Students, Germany, 1988, followed 14 weeks
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 97
- Non Response
- 9
- Assessment
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Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)
T1 intructions were carried out in group sessions, T2-T4 intructions were mailed to the subjects and they were to reply.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Commitment to personal goals
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Rated at T1 and T3
- Operationalization
- Participants were to list six personal goals they considered to be most important for them in the next few months. Next they rated their commitment per goal.
a) Determination:
- No matter what happens, I will not give up this goal.
- I sometimes doubt whether I shall definitely accomplish this goal.
b) Urgency:
- I have the urgent feeling to immediately start working on this goal.
- I think I will wait awhile until I begin working on this goal.
c) Willingness
- Even if it means a lot of effort I will do everything necessary to accomplish this goal.
- If this goal implies lots of difficulties, I am willing to postphone it for a while.
Rating
7-point scale
1: completely disagree
:
7: completely agree
Summation:
For the different questions a mean was calculated by averaging scores across students' assessments of the questions on the six personal goals.