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When is your partner willing to help you? The role of daily goal conflict and perceived gratitude

(2017) MOTIVATION AND EMOTION. 41(6). p.671-682
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Motivation to provide help might vary from day-to-day. Previous research showed that autonomously motivated help (i.e., helping because you enjoy/value this behavior), compared with controlled motivated help (i.e., helping because you feel you should do so), has beneficial effects for both the help provider and recipient. In a sample of chronic pain patients and partners (N = 64 dyads), this diary study examined whether (1) same- and prior day perceived gratitude (i.e., received appreciation for providing support) in partners and (2) same- and prior day goal conflicts in partners (i.e., amount of interference between helping one's partner in pain and other goals) predicted partners' helping motivation. Partners provided more autonomously motivated help on days that they perceived more gratitude from their partner and when they experienced less goal conflicts. Lagged analyses indicated that perceived gratitude (but not goal conflict) even predicted an increase in autonomous helping motivation the next day. Implications are discussed in the context of Self-Determination Theory.
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Helping motivation, Self-determination theory, Chronic pain couples, Gratitude, Goal conflict, SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY, PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR, CHRONIC PAIN, RELATIONSHIP MAINTENANCE, ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS, AUTONOMOUS MOTIVATION, EXPRESSED GRATITUDE, CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS, DAILY-LIFE, THANK-YOU

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MLA
Kindt, Sara, et al. “When Is Your Partner Willing to Help You? The Role of Daily Goal Conflict and Perceived Gratitude.” MOTIVATION AND EMOTION, vol. 41, no. 6, 2017, pp. 671–82, doi:10.1007/s11031-017-9635-5.
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Kindt, S., Vansteenkiste, M., Cano, A., & Goubert, L. (2017). When is your partner willing to help you? The role of daily goal conflict and perceived gratitude. MOTIVATION AND EMOTION, 41(6), 671–682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9635-5
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Kindt, Sara, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Annmarie Cano, and Liesbet Goubert. 2017. “When Is Your Partner Willing to Help You? The Role of Daily Goal Conflict and Perceived Gratitude.” MOTIVATION AND EMOTION 41 (6): 671–82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9635-5.
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Kindt, Sara, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Annmarie Cano, and Liesbet Goubert. 2017. “When Is Your Partner Willing to Help You? The Role of Daily Goal Conflict and Perceived Gratitude.” MOTIVATION AND EMOTION 41 (6): 671–682. doi:10.1007/s11031-017-9635-5.
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Kindt S, Vansteenkiste M, Cano A, Goubert L. When is your partner willing to help you? The role of daily goal conflict and perceived gratitude. MOTIVATION AND EMOTION. 2017;41(6):671–82.
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S. Kindt, M. Vansteenkiste, A. Cano, and L. Goubert, “When is your partner willing to help you? The role of daily goal conflict and perceived gratitude,” MOTIVATION AND EMOTION, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 671–682, 2017.
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  keywords     = {{Helping motivation,Self-determination theory,Chronic pain couples,Gratitude,Goal conflict,SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY,PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR,CHRONIC PAIN,RELATIONSHIP MAINTENANCE,ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS,AUTONOMOUS MOTIVATION,EXPRESSED GRATITUDE,CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS,DAILY-LIFE,THANK-YOU}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{When is your partner willing to help you? The role of daily goal conflict and perceived gratitude}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9635-5}},
  volume       = {{41}},
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