Psychological Needs for Goal Achievement Worksheet
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HappierTherapy
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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Research advocates that different goal content is associated with different kinds of need satisfaction placing importance on the effortful, realistic goal setting.
What Are the Theories Behind This Worksheet?
The self-deterministic theory presents that human beings set goals to fulfill the underlying psychological needs of competence, autonomy, and relatedness. This is not only a theory designated for understanding goal setting and motivation but it also has the scientific advocacy for life satisfaction with intrinsic as well as extrinsic goals accomplishment.
How Will This Worksheet Help you?
The benefit of this worksheet is to help people formulate their goals covering the basic psychological needs with personal involvement. This element of intrinsic motivation will help them to achieve their target.
How Should You Use This Worksheet?
This worksheet is helpful for people interested in short-term or long-term goal setting.
