On the Role of Goal Orientation Traits and Self-Efficacy in the Goal-Setting Process: Distinctions That Make a Difference

Effectiveness of Occupational Performance Coaching in Improving Children's and Mothers' Performance and Mothers' Self-Competence

“…Goal setting is known to influence attention, persistence, and application of knowledge in relation to the performance of tasks, which may in turn influence performance (Locke & Latham, 2002). Additionally, when goals are highly meaningful to clients (Fan, Meng, Billings, Litchfield, & Kaplan, 2008), the intervention effects of goal setting are heightened. Further exploration of the effect of goal setting within OPC is warranted.…”

The advantages of task-based and other-based achievement goals as standards of competence

“…However, some researchers (e.g. Fan, Meng, Billings, Litchfield, & Kaplan, 2008;Phan, 2009) assume goals as predictors of self-efficacy.…”

Self‐efficacy in the Workplace: Linking personality to domain‐specific efficacy beliefs

“…Research that has incorporated distal traits into motivational models of performance have similarly focused on expectancies and efficacy beliefs as important mediating variables (Fan, Meng, Billings, Litchfield, & Kaplan, 2008;Klein & Lee, 2006). Unfortunately, this research has focused primarily on traits related to conscientiousness because it is constructed as most relevant to motivation (generally defined by effort), providing little guidance for developing theories or practical interventions when other traits may be related to domain-specific expectations.…”

“…For instance, Locke (2001) presents a 'mediationlinking model' in which motivating variables, such as personality traits, influence intermediary variables such as self-efficacy and goal commitment, which in turn directly influence task performance. Research that has incorporated distal traits into motivational models of performance have similarly focused on expectancies and efficacy beliefs as important mediating variables (Fan, Meng, Billings, Litchfield, & Kaplan, 2008;Klein & Lee, 2006).…”