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Registration Number: VEGA 1/0748/19 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic and Slovak Academy Of Science

Project title: Decision-making characteristics and crisis in the process of achieving goals.

Project solution period: 2018 - 2021

Position in the project: Principal investigator

Annotation: The project focused on the role of selected decision-making characteristics, goal characteristics and motivation in the emergence of obstacles threatening the achievement of the goal and the subsequent emergence of the crisis in achieving the goals (action crisis). The project aims to examine which decision-making methods (operationalized as decision-making styles) interact with motivation (internal / external, approach / avoidance) and goal characteristics (eg commitment to achieve the goal, perceived difficulty of the goal, goal self-effectiveness, effort, progress) related to the action crisis. This goal of the project was achieved within the framework of cross-sectional as well as longitudinal research, which also enabled the monitoring of time changes or causal relationships.

Link to selected publications:

https://unibook.upjs.sk/img/cms/2021/FF/rozhodovanie-a-proces-dosahovania-cielov.pdf

Registration Number: APVV-19-0284 Slovak Reseach and Development Agency Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic

Project title: Factors in the selection and achievement of long-term goals for young people in the period of transition to adulthood.

Project solution period: 2020 – 2024

Position in the project: Principal investigator

Annotation: The main goal of the project is to examine the targeting and planning of the future of young people aged 20 to 30. The result should be the identification of long-term goals and the state of planning in the area of ​​development tasks. Given the declared instability, as a characteristic of the observed development period, we plan to find out whether there is a change in goals, variability of target characteristics and whether there is a postponement of achieving development tasks to a later period. This objective is specified through the following objectives: to find out the current state of future planning by reviewing the long-term goals of young people over the period of 20 to 30 years; examine the stability of target ideas and the motivational and self-regulatory context of achieving targets over a given age period; to find out the significance of individual differences in goal-oriented behavior in developmental goals in the period of transition to adulthood, both in setting and achieving them. The topicality of the research is given by the use of current approaches and research methods to clarify the dynamics of motivational-self-regulatory context to goal-oriented behavior in a given age period.

Registration Number:APVV-15-0662 Slovak Reseach and Development Agency Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic

Project title: Goals on Fire: Systematic Corroboration of the Role of Goal Striving in Work Engagement and Burnout Symptoms Development

Project solution period: 07/2024 - 06/2028

Position in the project: investigator

Annotation:

Burnout and work engagement have important implications for individuals, organizations, and society. A deeper understanding of the processes behind their development is becoming more critical than ever. However, the attention to the individual level of analysis and underlying motivational processes in research is still limited and often unsystematic. Based on current research that indicates a potentially important role of motivation and drawing on a well-established line of research dedicated to goal-directed behavior, we aim to systematically examine the role of the goals people choose and strive for in the development of burnout symptoms and work engagement. In the initial stage of the project, we plan to examine the relationship between goal attainment and the symptoms of burnout and work engagement from a qualitative and quantitative perspective. It is hypothesized that an individual’s goals (and selected goal dimensions) are closely related to the level of work engagement/burnout symptoms. The subsequent phase will further elucidate the processes behind this relationship. In particular, the role of goal attainment in the development of burnout symptoms and work engagement will be examined with an emphasis on the hypothesized mechanisms (obsessive and harmonious passion), situating it within the conceptual framework of the Job Demands-Resource model (JD-R). In the following phase, we will longitudinally examine how the investigated variables evolve and interact over time. Finally, the acquired knowledge will be applied to prepare a monograph, a workshop, and a practical handbook. We will make the data available to other researchers interested in studying this topic as part of open science practices.

Project Registration Number: VEGA 1/0790/25 – Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Project Title: The Role of Decision-Making Characteristics and Work Goals in the Development of Burnout and Work Engagement

Project Implementation Period: 01/2025 – ongoing

Position in the Project: Principal Investigator

Annotation:

Although considerable research attention has already been devoted to burnout and work engagement as manifestations and consequences of behavior and experience in the workplace, the role of stable decision-making characteristics and goal-achievement processes has been largely neglected in research. Based on the influential job demands–resources approach (JD-R; Bakker et al., 2023), the main objective of the project is to examine the role of decision-making characteristics—specifically decision-making styles and attitudes toward uncertainty—in interaction with dimensions of work goals in the emergence of two outcomes of functioning in the work process: burnout and its counterpart, work engagement.

This main objective builds on the results of previous projects involving the proposed research team, which identified both the role of decision-making characteristics in goal-directed behavior and in goal dimensions (e.g., Bavoľár et al., 2024), as well as several predictors of burnout syndrome (e.g., Mesárošová et al., 2018).

The overall objective is specified through the following partial goals:

a) To identify the relationships between variables in pairs where previous research is absent or very limited, both in the Slovak and international context, and therefore require systematic examination. Specifically, these include relationships between decision-making characteristics and burnout/work engagement, as well as between goal dimensions and burnout/work engagement (the static dimension of the issue).

b) To determine the role of decision-making characteristics and dimensions of work goals in the development of burnout and the cultivation of work engagement (the process dimension of the issue) within the broader framework of the JD-R model.

c) To identify the temporal sequence of changes leading to and influencing the development of burnout and work engagement, taking into account changes in the dimensions of work goals (the temporal dimension, with emphasis on antecedents of burnout and work engagement related to work goal dimensions).