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- Title
Effectiveness of distal and proximal goals as transfer-of-training interventions: A field experiment.
- Authors
Brown, Travor C.
- Abstract
The effectiveness of distal outcome goals, proximal plus distal outcome goals, and being urged to “do your best” interventions on self-efficacy and transfer was investigated in a field experiment involving government employees (N = 72). Six weeks after the training session took place, both participants who were urged to do their best and those who set proximal plus distal goals had increased transfer (that is, generalization and maintenance) relative to those who set outcome goals. There was no significant difference in the transfer level of participants urged to do their best and those who set proximal plus distal goals.
- Subjects
GOAL (Psychology); SELF-efficacy; APPLIED psychology; EMPLOYEES; TRAINING; EDUCATION
- Publication
Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2005, Vol 16, Issue 3, p369
- ISSN
1044-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hrdq.1144