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Self-report measures of individual differences in regulatory focus: a cautionary note

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dc.contributor.author Summerville, Amy en_US
dc.contributor.author Roese, Neal J. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2011-02-07T21:06:47Z
dc.date.available 2011-02-07T21:06:47Z
dc.date.issued 2011-02-07
dc.identifier.citation Journal of Research in Personality 42 (2008) 247–254. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/4410
dc.description.abstract Regulatory focus theory distinguishes between two independent structures of strategic inclination, promotion versus prevention. However, the theory implies two potentially independent definitions of these inclinations, the self-guide versus the reference-point definitions. Two scales (the Regulatory Focus Questionnaire [Higgins, E. T., Friedman, R. S., Harlow, R. E., Idson, L. C., Ayduk, O. N., & Taylor, A. (2001). Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 3–23] and the General Regulatory Focus Measure [Lockwood, P., Jordan, C. H., & Kunda, Z. (2002). Motivation by positive and negative role models: Regulatory focus determines who will best inspire us. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 854–864]) have been widely used to measure dispositional regulatory focus. We suggest that these two scales align respectively with the two definitions, and find that the two scales are largely uncorrelated. Both conceptual and methodological implications are discussed. en_US
dc.subject approach en_US
dc.subject avoidance en_US
dc.subject regulatory focus en_US
dc.subject affect en_US
dc.subject motivation en_US
dc.title Self-report measures of individual differences in regulatory focus: a cautionary note en_US
dc.type Text en_US
dc.date.published 2007-05-21
dc.type.genre Article en_US

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