title: Approach and avoidance motivation in the social domain.
abstract: This research put Gable's (in press) hierarchical model of approach-avoidance social motivation to empirical test using newly developed measures of friendship-approach and avoidance goals. The results from Study 1 supported the psychometric soundness of the new goal measures and showed the anticipated differential predictive patterns for the two goals. The results from Study 2 provided further evidence of the psychometric soundness of the new goal measures and provided support for the full hierarchical model in longitudinal analyses of subjective well-being and physical symptomotology. Implications of the present research for understanding motivation both within and beyond the social domain are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. andye@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Elliot
authors.forename: Shelly L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Gable
authors.forename: Rachael R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Mapes
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology