Abstract

The Institute of Social Sciences of the CSPS of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice is an interdisciplinary workplace of social sciences and humanities with a primary research focus on the area of Central Europe in the field of social psychology, sociology and history.

Highlights

  • Most human behavior is goal-oriented (Kruglanski, 1996)

  • It is the occurrence of obstacles in achieving the goal that leads to the individual's experience of an action crisis, which can be defined as the internal conflict in persisting with the goal or giving it up

  • The present research aimed to clarify the relationship between experiencing action crisis and the type of obstacle identified according to the content based on the criteria of subjectivity and objectivity

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Introduction

The process of creating, pursuing, and achieving goals in the form of self-regulation is an essential part of an individual's life, as it helps them to create and subsequently implement their life plan. The presence of obstacles makes it difficult to pursue the goal Such obstacles are a natural part of the goal process, which can prevent one from fulfilling their intentions. Aim: The main goal of the current research was to clarify the relationship between experiencing action crisis and the type of obstacle (subjective/ objective), to explain the connection between action crisis and selected obstacle characteristics as perceived frequency and intensity. Socio-demographic data (gender, age, field of study, year, employment / student status), an open-ended question addressing the specific obstacles that respondents face or

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