Psychology Division, School of Arts & Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup 6027, Australia.
Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 17;18(6):3084. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18063084.
Recent research suggests people typically "give up" pursuing their New Year resolutions within the first month. The present study investigated goal features proposed to be implicated in promoting both mental wellbeing and sustained New Year resolution pursuit. Australian and UK participants ( = 182) took part in an online longitudinal study, including four timepoints over a two-month period. At baseline, participants listed the New Year resolution to which they were most committed, and completed self-report measures to assess mental wellbeing, goal flexibility and tenacity. At the follow-up surveys, participants completed the wellbeing measure and their New Year resolution commitment, effort and stickability. As predicted, flexibility predicted wellbeing across time, however, tenacity did not. Counter to prediction, neither flexibility nor tenacity reported at baseline predicted "sticking" with one's New Year resolution. The predicted interaction between flexibility and tenacity was not significant. New Year resolutions focused predominantly on "diet" and "exercise" were predominantly the same resolutions previously pursued and tended to be relatively abstract. Although goal flexibility predicted greater wellbeing, the findings overall tend to support the view that people are not particularly good at sticking with their New Year resolutions. Implications of the findings are discussed.
最近的研究表明，人们通常在第一个月内就“放弃”追求新年决心。本研究调查了被认为对促进心理健康和持续追求新年决心都有影响的目标特征。澳大利亚和英国的参与者（n=182）参加了一项在线纵向研究，包括两个月内的四个时间点。在基线时，参与者列出了他们最坚定的新年决心，并完成了自我报告的测量，以评估心理健康、目标灵活性和坚韧度。在后续的调查中，参与者完成了幸福感的测量以及他们对新年决心的投入、努力和坚持程度。正如预测的那样，灵活性确实可以预测整个时间的幸福感，但坚韧度则不能。与预测相反，无论是基线时报告的灵活性还是坚韧度都不能预测一个人是否“坚持”他们的新年决心。灵活性和坚韧度之间的预测性交互作用并不显著。主要集中在“饮食”和“锻炼”上的新年决心通常是以前追求过的同样的决心，而且往往相对抽象。尽管目标灵活性可以预测更高的幸福感，但总的来说，这些发现倾向于支持这样一种观点，即人们并不特别擅长坚持他们的新年决心。研究结果的影响进行了讨论。
