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Moving Toward More Perfect Unions: Daily and Long - Term Consequences of Approach and Avoidance Goals in Romantic Relationships.

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Creating a culture that validates professional conduct can be instrumental in meetingbusiness - wide objectives, financial goals, litigation avoidance and ultimately employee satisfaction.

Hidden in all this avoidance of evil is nothing less than a painless, suffering - free and, finally, immortal existence,» a goal he finds wrongheaded and dangerous.

Patients can be taught these skills in three or four sessions, by setting personally meaningful goals, observing and describing pain and the thoughts and feelings that come with pain, identifying avoidance behaviours and tracking how they can increase pain, distress and interfere with the ability to live life fully.

Less serotonin elicits socially defensive responses such as avoidance or submission, where enhancement — the main goal of antidepressants — induces a positive shift in the perception of socio - affective stimuli, promoting affiliation and dominance.

The study found that higher achievement goals were linked to higher levels of worry, with the highest levels of worry observed in child athletes whose parents wanted him or her to outperform others in the upcoming competition, or to not lose to others (performance - approach and performance - avoidance).

The goal of «chasing macros», i.e. reducing carbohydrates, increasing fat, and managing protein can result in an avoidance of key micronutrients.

In its quest to reduce the incidence of rape, to prosecute rapists to conviction and to decrease the frequency of false complaints, we would suggest that the government ought to direct its efforts to the following goals: cents educating potential victims of sexual assault on the adoption of risk - avoidance strategies;

That's the goal of a collision avoidance system, which uses a lot of the same sensors as adaptive cruise control in order to «see» the road ahead.

The principal goal of the defensive driving education is not to teach the basic of driving, but to teach a new driver on how to stay safe in the road through collision avoidance.

One the main treatment goals in therapy for anxiety disorders is to use specific methods to diminish the ANS reaction, eliminate the anxiety symptoms, decrease the cycle of avoidance, and improve overall well - being.

In other words, people perceive having sex for approach goals (vs. avoidance goals) as being associated with higher desire and satisfaction regardless of the person's gender or relationship length.

Avoidance goals: A person having sex for these reasons is focused on averting negative outcomes in their relationship, such as conflict or disappointing a partner.

In some scenarios couples were married for several years (vs. dating for several months), John's reason for sex was indicated instead of Katie's, and sex was pursued for an avoidance goal (to avoid disappointing the partner) as opposed to an approach goal (to feel closer).

In her talk, Dr. Impett discussed some of our work on sexuality where we consider couples» approach and avoidance goals for sex and how one partner's sexual goals influence the other partner's sexual and relationship quality.

The data suggest that on days when one partner in a relationship has sex for avoidance goals, the other partner feels more negative emotions and reports lower relationship and sexual satisfaction.

Hhaving sex for avoidance goals may provide a daily boost in relationship satisfaction compared to not having sex at all (although not nearly as much of a boost as having sex for approach goals!).

However, we found that having sex to avoid disappointing your partner (i.e., for avoidance goals) is actually associated with partners reporting less desire and satisfaction.1 In other words, when people simply «give it up» to avoid negative outcomes in their relationships, their partners have less positive sexual experiences and feel worse about the relationshiIn other words, when people simply «give it up» to avoid negative outcomes in their relationships, their partners have less positive sexual experiences and feel worse about the relationshiin their relationships, their partners have less positive sexual experiences and feel worse about the relationship.

In addition, it might affect the ability to achieve goals or increase the ability to cope with problems, while low self - esteem may lead to avoidance (Hendy et al., 2003).

Whereas approach social goals direct individuals toward potential positive outcomes, such as intimacy and growth in their close relationships, avoidance social goals direct individuals away from potential negative outcomes, such as conflict and rejection.

McKnight and Kashdan (2009) suggested that a clear purpose in life might facilitate the selection of goal - consistent behavior, which then may suppress goal - incongruent behavior (such as avoidance behavior evoked by negative affect), based on their review of recent findings about purpose in life.

Approach — avoidance motivation in personality: Approach and avoidance temperaments and goals