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    STUDIA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   INTEGRATIVE STRENGTH OF THE ACTION REASONS: CONTENT AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF SELF-REPORTED BEHAVIOR OUTCOMES.

Authors:  SOFIA CHIRICĂ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Previous research (Carver & Baird, 1998) found that diverse reasons can underlie the same aspiration and that it is the reason not the aspiration itself that is more linked to individual self-actualization. In the following study I argue that different – more controlling/nonintegrated or more self-determined/integrated reasons may underlie the same aspiration of doing well in a no-choice activity. Moreover, I found that the true belief underlying a participant’s cognitive activity has either been derived from or inconsistent with his or her explicit task perception (action identification) (Vallacher, & Wegner, 1985). Scope/action specification, integrative conceptual complexity in self-reported outcomes, and affect were found as other qualifying elements for the integrative strength of an action reason.  
         
     
         
         
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