The Goal Characteristics (GC) questionannaire: A comprehensive measure for goals’ content, attainability, interestingness, and usefulness

2019

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Many studies have investigated how goal characteristics affect goal achievement. However, most of them considered only a small number of characteristics and the psychometric properties of their measures remains unclear. To overcome these limitations, we developed and validated a comprehensive questionnaire of goal characteristics with four subscales - measuring the goal’s content, attainability, interestingness, and usefulness respectively. 590 participants completed the questionnaire online. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the four subscales and their structure. The GC questionnaire (https://osf.io/qfhup) can be easily applied to investigate goal setting, pursuit and adjustment in a wide range of contexts.

@conference{Iwama2019SJDM,
  title = {The Goal Characteristics (GC) questionannaire: A comprehensive measure for goals' content, attainability, interestingness, and usefulness},
  author = {Iwama, Gabriela and Wirzberger, Maria and Lieder, Falk},
  month = jun,
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.13140/RG.2.2.24237.84961},
  month_numeric = {6}
}