Seeing Future Success : Does Imagery Perspective Influence Achievement Motivation ?  

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Vasquez, Noelia A. ; Buehler, Roger

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 33 no. 10 (Oct. 2007), page 1392-1405.
Topik: SUCCESS; mental imagery; visual perspective; possible selves; mental simulation; achievement motivation; construal
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Imagining future success can sometimes enhance people's motivation to achieve it. This article examines a phenomenological aspect of positive mental imagery - the visual perspective adopted - that may moderate its motivational impact. The authors hypothesize that people feel more motivated to succeed on a future task when they visualize its successful completion from a third - person rather than a first - person perspective. Actions viewed from the third - person perspective are generally construed at a relatively high level of abstraction - in a manner that highlights their larger meaning and significance - which should heighten their motivational impact. Three studies in the domain of academic motivation support this reasoning. Students experience a greater increase in achievement motivation when they imagine their successful task completion from a third - rather than a first - person perspective. Moreover, mediational analyses reveal that third - person imagery boosts motivation by prompting students to construe their success abstractly and to perceive it as important.

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