TY  - INPR
KW  - Gratitude
KW  -  Goal orientation
KW  -  Learning
KW  -  Performance
KW  -  Prosocial motivation
EP  - 10
A1  - Sanchez, Janice
A1  - Tsay, Chia-Jung
A1  - Lopez-Perez, Belen
AV  - public
ID  - discovery10204664
N1  - © 2025 Springer Nature. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
JF  - Motivation and Emotion
TI  - The influence of goal orientation on gratitude at work considering prosocial motivation
N2  - Although research has shown that gratitude has mostly beneficial consequences, less is known about its motivational antecedents. As goal orientations influence goals and behaviors, we considered how they also impact emotions. To that aim, we investigated the relation between work domain goal orientation and the experience of gratitude. Study 1 (N?=?102) demonstrated that a learning goal orientation was positively correlated with gratitude but a performance goal orientation was not. Study 2 (N?=?87) experimentally demonstrated that participants experienced more gratitude when learning goals rather than performance goals were valued at work. In Study 3 (N?=?157), work prosocial motivation cross-sectionally mediated the impact of a learning goal orientation on gratitude. Preregistered Study 4 (N?=?257) replicated Study 2 and 3?s findings through an experiment and categorical mediation. Our results suggest that goal orientation influences gratitude, and that prosocial motivation can serve an explanatory function for its relationship with gratitude at work.
PB  - SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
Y1  - 2025/01/25/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-024-10109-7
ER  -