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Motive Theory & Goal Disengagement | Dr. Kaspar Schattke | 15


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Dr. Kaspar Schattke on goal setting, goal disengagement, motivation, motive congruence theory and much more…  


Dr. Kaspar Schattke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Kaspar is a leading researcher in motive theories, publishing scores of peer-reviewed articles on the topic for over 15 years. Kaspar's research profile is available here https://professeurs.uqam.ca/professeur/schattke.kaspar_philipp/   

 Chapters 0:00 Show Intro 2:22 Why goals are important 3:50 The best type of goals  8:20 Competence and feedback for goal attainment 13:08 Goal disengagement 16:00 Action Crisis 24:27 Strategies for effective goal disengagement and pursuit  34:42 Theory of motive congruence  41:25 Motive congruence for mental wellbeing 52:54 Causes of motive incongruence  55:05 The value of authenticity  

 Further readings and resources mentioned in this episode ‘Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey’ by Locke and Latham (2002) ‘Special Issue:  Advances in Goal Disengagement Research’ in ‘Motivation and Emotion’ (Volume 46, Issue 6) by Schattke and Kappes. Accessible at https://link.springer.com/journal/11031/volumes-and-issues/46-6  ‘Peak’ by Ericsson and Pool (2016) ‘Call for Papers: Advances on Goal Disengagement Research’ by Schattke and Kappes (2022) 'You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement' by Schattke and Kappes (2022) ‘Mind your goals, mind your emotions: Mechanisms explaining the relation between dispositional mindfulness and action crises’ by Marion-Jetten, Taylor & Schattke (2022) ‘Coping with the crisis: A mindfulness manipulation positively affects the emotional regulation of action crises’ by Marion-Jetten, Schattke & Taylor (2021) ‘Childhood correlates of adult levels of incongruence between implicit and explicit motives’ by Schattke, Koestner & Kehr (2010) ‘Adaptive self-regulation of unattainable goals: Goal disengagement, goal reengagement and subjective well-being’ by Wrosch, Scheier, Miller, Schulz & Carver (2003) ‘Goal imagery: Bridging the gap between implicit motives and explicit goals’ by Schultheiss and Brunstein (2001) ‘Where do we go from here? The goal perspective in psychotherapy’ by Michalak and Grosse Holtforth (2006) WOOP my life website- https://woopmylife.org/  “‘Crossing the rubicon’: Turning career action crises into opportunities” by Taylor, Schattke & Marion-Jetten  

 

 Research Profiles  Kaspar Schattke Research Profile- https://professeurs.uqam.ca/professeur/schattke.kaspar_philipp/Gabrielle Oettingen Research Profile (Researcher on Mental Contrasting)- https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/gabriele-oettingen.html  Peter Gollwitzer Research Profile (Researcher on Implementation Intentions)- https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/peter-m-gollwitzer.html

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