How Do Post-Training Transfer Interventions Affect Trainee Attitudes and Transfer of Training?

Abstract

Using a sequential mixed methods approach, this paper explores the process through which two post-training transfer interventions – relapse prevention and proximal plus distal goal setting – influence two trainee attitudes (i.e., readiness to change, autonomous motivation to transfer) and transfer of training. We find that the implementations of relapse prevention and proximal plus distal goal setting help trainees to achieve positive transfer performance, either directly or indirectly via autonomous motivation to transfer. In contrast, we fail to confirm the effect of readiness to change on trainees’ autonomous motivation and transfer of training. Furthermore, we find that trainees who implement relapse prevention intervention exhibit a greater transfer of training than those who implement proximal plus distal goal setting.