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Prepare to Compare: Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life

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Prepare to Compare : Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life. / Diel, Kathi; Hofmann, Wilhelm; Grelle, Sonja et al.

in: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2024.

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Harvard

Diel, K, Hofmann, W, Grelle, S, Boecker, L & Friese, M 2024, 'Prepare to Compare: Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231219378

APA

Diel, K., Hofmann, W., Grelle, S., Boecker, L., & Friese, M. (Angenommen/Im Druck). Prepare to Compare: Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231219378

Vancouver

Diel K, Hofmann W, Grelle S, Boecker L, Friese M. Prepare to Compare: Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2024. doi: 10.1177/01461672231219378

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title = "Prepare to Compare: Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life",
abstract = "In a preregistered ecological momentary intervention study, we alternately instructed participants to adopt an upward and downward comparison focus. In all, 349 participants reported 8,137 social comparison situations across 6 days and three comparison conditions (baseline, upward, downward). For each comparison, participants reported social comparison direction, motivation, effort intentions, and emotions in five daily reports and one daily end-of-day summary. As predicted, an upward comparison focus resulted in more self-improvement motivation (pushing) and more negative emotions, whereas days with a downward comparison focus resulted in decreased motivation (coasting) but more positive emotions (vs. baseline). However, at the end of the day, people experienced lower goal approach on upward but higher goal approach on downward comparison days. Hence, engaging in strategic upward comparison was motivating in the short term but resulted in surprisingly opposite effects at the end of the day. We offer possible explanations from cognitive and motivational perspectives.",
keywords = "emotions, goals, intervention, motivation, social comparison, Psychology",
author = "Kathi Diel and Wilhelm Hofmann and Sonja Grelle and Lea Boecker and Malte Friese",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by a grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG; HO 4175/5-1) awarded to the second author. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.",
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