Oliver J. KaftanUniversity of Zurich | UZH · Developmental Psychology
Oliver J. Kaftan
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Oliver J. Kaftan currently works at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. Oliver does research in Motivational and Developmental Psychology.
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This 8‐week longitudinal experience sampling study with N = 346 participants (n = 242 completers) of a high‐intensity interval training program explored how goal focus (i.e., a focus on the process vs. outcome of goal pursuit) is related to procrastination and successful goal pursuit. Specifically, the study investigated the association between goa...
Procrastination is a highly common self-regulation failure that has been studied mainly in the educational context, but has been largely neglected in life-span psychology. Adopting a life-span motivational perspective, we focus on adult development and maintain that, historically seen, adults nowadays have to take on a more important and active rol...
This 14-week longitudinal study with weekly real-time reports investigated if goal focus (i.e., a focus on the process vs. the outcome of goal pursuit) is associated with students’ (N = 105) perceptions of the activities in which they were engaged while procrastinating (alternative activities). We compared perceptions of the alternative activities...
Goals are considered by some theories as essential for subjective well-being (i.e., telic theories, see Diener, 1984). In fact, achieving goals is beneficial for subjective well-being. However, just holding goals does not bring about goal achievement. Therefore, this chapter highlights the importance of goal pursuit (autotelic theories) in addition...
