Goal setting as a strategy for health behavior change
VJ Strecher, G Seijts, GJ Kok, G Latham, R Glasgow, B DeVell... Health Education \& Behavior 1995
This article discusses the beneficial effects of setting goals in health behavior change and maintenance interventions. Goal setting theory predicts that, under certain conditions, setting specific difficult goals leads to higher performance when compared with no goals or vague, nonquantitative goals, such as "do your best." In contrast t...