Reference health
The Personal Goal Difficulty - Progress Paradox: Unraveling the Role of Self-Efficacy on Perceptions of Goal Difficulty
39/39 checkable references clean · checked 2026-07-25
Every reference with a DOI in the deposited reference list resolved to a known work in Crossref or DataCite at the dated check, and none carried a retraction, withdrawal, or removal notice.
6 without a DOI — not checked. A reference deposited without a DOI is never matched by title or guessed at; it stays outside the checked set, and this line discloses that.
The 39 checked references that resolve
resolves10.1037/0022-3514.56.5.805
Effect of perceived controllability and performance standards on self-regulation of complex decision making.
resolves10.1007/s11162-011-9232-5
Effect Sizes and Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis in Higher Education
resolves10.2466/pr0.1988.63.2.475
Perceived Goal-Difficulty, Locus of Control, and Performance Ratings
resolves10.1016/0022-1031(81)90039-1
The self-attention-induced feedback loop and social facilitation
resolves10.1037/0021-9010.69.1.69
Effect of goal acceptance on the relationship of goal difficulty to performance.
resolves10.1111/spc3.12267
Mini Meta‐Analysis of Your Own Studies: Some Arguments on Why and a Primer on How
resolves10.1037/0022-3514.83.1.231
Attaining personal goals: Self-concordance plus implementation intentions equals success.
resolves10.1111/j.1559-1816.1992.tb00957.x
Exploring the Meaning and Usefulness of Measures of Subjective Goal Difficulty<sup>1</sup>
resolves10.1037/0003-066X.57.9.705
Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey.
resolves10.1521/jscp.2022.41.6.541
All Goals are Equal: No Interactions Between Depressive Symptoms and Goal Characteristics on Goal Progress
resolves10.1016/0749-5978(87)90045-8
A meta-analytic study of the effects of goal setting on task performance: 1966–1984
resolves10.1111/j.1559-1816.1988.tb00024.x
An Examination of the Cognitive Mechanisms by Which Assigned Goals Affect Task Performance and Reactions to Performance<sup>1</sup>
resolves10.1177/1948550616679237
What’s So Great About Self-Control? Examining the Importance of Effortful Self-Control and Temptation in Predicting Real-Life Depletion and Goal Attainment
resolves10.5964/ps.7975
A goal by any other name: Effects of different goal elicitation methods on goal pursuit
resolves10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.028
Why do people set more self-concordant goals in need satisfying domains? Testing authenticity as a mediator
resolves10.1037/cap0000147
Goal pursuit: Current state of affairs and directions for future research.
resolves10.1007/s10869-020-09689-1
Examining the effects of negative performance feedback: the roles of sadness, feedback self-efficacy, and grit
resolves10.1007/s11031-019-09759-9
Embracing me-time: Motivation for solitude during transition to college
resolves10.1038/s41467-022-30786-7
Longitudinal evidence that Event Related Potential measures of self-regulation do not predict everyday goal pursuit
resolves10.1080/08959285.2011.580807
The Effect of Commitment to a Learning Goal, Self-Efficacy, and the Interaction Between Learning Goal Difficulty and Commitment on Performance in a Business Simulation
resolves10.1177/0146167205281128
Achievement Goals, Task Performance, and Interest: Why Perceived Goal Difficulty Matters
resolves10.1037/0021-9010.93.3.692
The role of feedback, causal attributions, and self-efficacy in goal revision.
resolves10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.002
Some goals just feel easier: Self-concordance leads to goal progress through subjective ease, not effort
resolves10.1177/014920639201800309
Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents of Personal Goal Level and of the Antecedents and Consequences of Goal Commitment
resolves10.1037/0021-9010.75.3.227
Operationalization of goal difficulty as a moderator of the goal difficulty-performance relationship.
resolves10.1111/j.1744-6570.1978.tb00449.x
INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION, INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, GOAL DIFFICULTY, GOAL ACCEPTANCE, GOAL INSTRUMENTALITY, AND PERFORMANCE
The 6 references without a DOI — listed, not checked
no DOI — not checkedref9
no DOI — not checkedref14
no DOI — not checkedref23
no DOI — not checkedref24
no DOI — not checkedref38
no DOI — not checkedref40
What this badge says. CiteStamped means the CHECKABLE references of this
work were clean at the dated check: each resolved to a known work in a public registry, and none
carried a retraction notice at that time. It says nothing about the quality, findings,
or importance of the work itself, and nothing about references deposited without a DOI.
checked 2026-07-25 — re-checked daily as this page is visited; titles and statuses come from Crossref and DataCite and are not part of the signed record
Embed this badge
Both snippets point at the live badge image and link back to this page. The badge re-renders from the daily check, so an embed never goes stale by more than a day of visits.
<a href="https://citestamp.com/citestamped/10.2139/ssrn.4651737"><img src="https://citestamp.com/citestamped/10.2139/ssrn.4651737/badge.svg" alt="CiteStamped reference-health badge" width="460" height="64"></a>
[](https://citestamp.com/citestamped/10.2139/ssrn.4651737)