Negotiating With Yourself and Winning: The Dual Commitment Model for Intrapersonal Sustainability Goal Conflicts

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Authors

Conflict is a pervasive barrier in sustainability transitions particularly when people are torn between pursuing many goals simultaneously. However, striving to achieve multiple sustainability goals may lead to conflicts with other seemingly contradictory sustainability goals. This poses a motivational challenge hampering sustainable behavior. We seek to address this challenge through a novel theoretical lens that integrates the fields of intrapersonal goal conflicts and interpersonal conflict resolution. Building on insights from both fields, we aim to advance theorizing and stimulate new research at their intersection and within each field. Our integrative theoretical lens draws on the dual concern model (Pruitt & Rubin, 1986)—originally designed to describe motivations, strategies, and solutions in interpersonal conflicts—to develop our newly proposed dual commitment model—for describing motivations, strategies, and solutions to intrapersonal goal conflicts. A central tenant of this model is that people can pursue multiple conflicting goals simultaneously by finding creative integrative (win–win) solutions. Drawing also on intrapersonal conflict resolution research, we identify boundary conditions for attaining integrative solutions. However, we posit that engaging in the self-regulation strategy of mental contrasting—imagining the desired future of reconciling the competing goals contrasted with obstacles toward reconciliation—helps people achieve integrative solutions in the form of multifinal means, means prioritization, and allocating means according to their effectiveness. Promoting sustainability goal achievement may, thus, involve negotiating with oneself about how to optimally balance multiple goal pursuits.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftMotivation Science
ISSN2333-8113
DOIs
PublikationsstatusAngenommen/Im Druck - 2025

Bibliographische Notiz

Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 American Psychological Association

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Forschende

  1. Igor Galligo

Publikationen

  1. Ein langer Weg zur Qualitätssicherung von Hochschulprüfungen
  2. Editorial: Sexualdevianz
  3. Gütermarktorientiertes Umweltmanagement
  4. Fatty acid feedstock preparation and lactic acid production as integrated processes in mixed restaurant food and bakery wastes treatment
  5. Nachhaltige Entwicklung durch Bildung
  6. Der Konflikt zwischen Klima- und Naturschutz bei der energetischen Verwendung von Waldrestholz
  7. Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik und Dokumentarische Methode
  8. Neuere Ansätze des 'Verstehens' in der 'Historischen Bildungsforschung'
  9. Ecology Parties in Western Europe
  10. DGFF (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung)
  11. Perspectives on German Popular Music
  12. Ein Medium namens McLuhan
  13. Michael Hoffmann. 2017. Stil und Text. Eine Einführung (Narr Studienbücher). Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto
  14. The Increasing Importance of Economic Conditions on Fertility
  15. Tourism Labor Market.
  16. Kleine Schulen ?
  17. Risikoanalyse für Human Factors
  18. Zeit. Von der Urzeit zur Computerzeit / Klaus Mainzer. - 1995
  19. Ein Smartphone-gestütztes internetbasiertes Programm für Patienten mit Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 und komorbider Depression
  20. Werkzeug und Verfahren zur Bearbeitung eines Werkstückes aus einem harten Material
  21. Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2019
  22. Kraft ist nicht gleich Kraft. Und wie können die Kraftfähigkeiten spielerisch in der Grundschule vermittelt werden?“
  23. What role for social-ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections?
  24. Beyond plastic – Consumers prefer food packaging derived from genetically modified plants
  25. Forschendes Lernen
  26. Healthy eating and sustainable nutrition through mindfulness?
  27. Diagnose von Schreibkompetenzen in der beruflichen Bildung