TY - JOUR
T1 - Interpersonal influences on self-regulation
AU - Fitzsimons, Gráinne M.
AU - Finkel, Eli J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Since the 1960s, personality and social psychologists have taken major strides toward understanding the intrapersonal processes that promote successful self-regulation. The current article reviews insights into the understanding of self-regulation gained by examining the impact of interpersonal processes on the initiation, operation, and monitoring of goals. We review research suggesting that other people can act as triggers of goals, causing people to unconsciously initiate new goal pursuits; that interpersonal interactions can tap self-control, leaving people with depleted resources for goal pursuit; that relationship partners can support goal operation, leading to more effective goal pursuit; and that the social environment can facilitate effective monitoring of one's extant goal progress and likelihood of future goal achievement.
AB - Since the 1960s, personality and social psychologists have taken major strides toward understanding the intrapersonal processes that promote successful self-regulation. The current article reviews insights into the understanding of self-regulation gained by examining the impact of interpersonal processes on the initiation, operation, and monitoring of goals. We review research suggesting that other people can act as triggers of goals, causing people to unconsciously initiate new goal pursuits; that interpersonal interactions can tap self-control, leaving people with depleted resources for goal pursuit; that relationship partners can support goal operation, leading to more effective goal pursuit; and that the social environment can facilitate effective monitoring of one's extant goal progress and likelihood of future goal achievement.
KW - Goals
KW - Interpersonal relationships
KW - Motivation
KW - Self-regulation
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U2 - 10.1177/0963721410364499
DO - 10.1177/0963721410364499
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77953743402
SN - 0963-7214
VL - 19
SP - 101
EP - 105
JO - Current Directions in Psychological Science
JF - Current Directions in Psychological Science
IS - 2
ER -