Letting go or giving up? The influence of self-transcendence meaning of life on goal adjustment in high action crisis

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Heyi Zhang¹  Xinyi Hu²  Meifang Geng² 

[1] Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China;The Psychological Quality Education Centre, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China;

关键词: self-transcendence meaning of life;    action crisis;    goal disengagement;    goal reengagement;    perceived self-efficacy;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1054873

 received in 2022-09-27, accepted in 2023-01-09,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

When individuals pursuing personal goals encounter setbacks and failures, they often fall into a conflict between disengaging from and striving toward the goal, defined as an action crisis. The present study investigated the influence and mechanism of self-transcendence meaning of life (STML) on goal disengagement and reengagement during a high versus a low action crisis. Study 1 included situations with different action crises. In Study 1, participants with high STML exhibited significantly higher goal disengagement and reengagement during high action crisis compared with low action crisis. Study 2 replicated the findings in Study 1 using participants’ personal goals by questionnaires, and further exhibited that action crisis had negative effect on self-efficacy for participants with low STML, and this process subsequently reduced goal adjustment. Interestingly, no mediation effect of self-efficacy was found between action crisis and goal adjustment among participants with high STML. Findings from the present study suggest that releasing obsessions and adopting a dialectical relationship between success and failure may help individuals in high action-crisis situations, and self-efficacy may provide flexibility and autonomy.

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