Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14620, USA.
Emotion. 2012 Oct;12(5):1031-40. doi: 10.1037/a0027456. Epub 2012 Apr 16.
The authors examined avoidance personal goals as concurrent (Study 1) and longitudinal (Study 2) predictors of multiple aspects of well-being in the United States and Japan. In both studies, participants adopted more avoidance personal goals in Japan relative to the United States. Both studies also demonstrated that avoidance personal goals were significant negative predictors of the most relevant aspects of well-being in each culture. Specifically, avoidance personal goals were negative predictors of intrapersonal and eudaimonic well-being in the United States and were negative predictors of interpersonal and eudaimonic well-being in Japan. The findings clarify and extend puzzling findings from prior empirical work in this area, and raise provocative possibilities about the nature of avoidance goal pursuit.
作者研究了回避个人目标作为并发（研究 1）和纵向（研究 2）预测因素，对美国和日本的多个福祉方面的影响。在这两项研究中，参与者在日本比在美国采用了更多的回避个人目标。这两项研究还表明，回避个人目标是各自文化中最相关福祉方面的显著负预测因素。具体而言，回避个人目标是美国的个人内和幸福的负预测因素，也是日本的人际和幸福的负预测因素。这些发现澄清并扩展了该领域先前实证工作中的令人费解的发现，并对回避目标追求的性质提出了一些引人深思的可能性。
