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Cognitive Processes in Response to Goal Failure: A Study of Ruminative Thought and its Affective Consequences.

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2013-05-01
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Jones, NP
Papadakis, AA
Orr, CA
Strauman, TJ
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Abstract
Failure to make progress toward personal goals can lead to negative affective states, such as depression and anxiety. Past research suggests that rumination in response to goal failure may prolong and intensify those acute emotional responses, but that process remains unclear. We examined ruminative thought processes following experimentally manipulated exposure to past failures to attain advancement (promotion) goals and safety (prevention) goals. We predicted that priming of past promotion and prevention goal failures would lead individuals to think repetitively about these failures and that negative affect would be evoked by their recognition of their failures. Further, we predicted that when people experience a sufficient magnitude of negative affect, ruminative thought would intensify and prolong the negative affect associated with that type of goal failure. Results yielded strong support for our predictions regarding promotion goal failure and modest support for those regarding prevention goal failure.
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Journal article
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Anxiety
Depression
Emotion
Goals
Rumination
Self-Regulation
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13851
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10.1521/jscp.2013.32.5.482
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Jones, NP; Papadakis, AA; Orr, CA; & Strauman, TJ (2013). Cognitive Processes in Response to Goal Failure: A Study of Ruminative Thought and its Affective Consequences. J Soc Clin Psychol, 32(5). 10.1521/jscp.2013.32.5.482. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13851.
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Timothy J. Strauman

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor Strauman's research focuses on the psychological and neurobiological processes that enable self-regulation, conceptualized in terms of a cognitive/motivational perspective, as well as the relation between self-regulation and affect. Particular areas of emphasis include: (1) conceptualizing self-regulation in terms of brain/behavior motivational systems; (2) the role of self-regulatory cognitive processes in vulnerability to depression and other disorders; (3) the impact of tre
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