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Self-efficacy Feelings Moderate Implementation Intention Effects
- DOI:
- 10.1080/15298860902860333
pages 177-194
- Received: 20 May 2008
- Accepted: 25 Mar 2009
- Published online: 18 May 2009
Abstract
Self-efficacy was analyzed as a potential moderator of implementation intention effects on goal attainment. Participants' self-efficacy with respect to taking an analytic reasoning test (Advanced Progressive Matrices; Raven, 197641.
Raven , J. C. 1976. Advanced progressive matrices. Set II, Oxford, , UK: Oxford Psychologists Press.
View all references) was manipulated before they formed the goal to perform well. Next, all participants learned about double checking as an effective strategy to improve test performance, but only in the implementation intention condition did they put this strategy into an if–then plan. The analytic reasoning test was comprised of easy, medium–difficult, and difficult items. Implementation intentions advanced performance on difficult items when high self-efficacy had been established, but not when self-efficacy was low. The time participants spent solving the Raven items mediated this implementation intention effect on performance.
View all references) was manipulated before they formed the goal to perform well. Next, all participants learned about double checking as an effective strategy to improve test performance, but only in the implementation intention condition did they put this strategy into an if–then plan. The analytic reasoning test was comprised of easy, medium–difficult, and difficult items. Implementation intentions advanced performance on difficult items when high self-efficacy had been established, but not when self-efficacy was low. The time participants spent solving the Raven items mediated this implementation intention effect on performance.
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- Received: 20 May 2008
- Accepted: 25 Mar 2009
- Published online: 18 May 2009
Author affiliations
- a University of Konstanz , Konstanz, Germany
- b New York University , New York, USA
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