Personal Goal Achievement and Happiness
There has been a lot of research conducted looking at the link between achieving desired goals, changes to self-efficacy and integrity and ultimately changes to Subjective well-being. Goal Efficacy refers to how likely an individual is to succeed in achieving their goal. Goal integrity refers to how consistent one's goals are with core aspects of the self. Research has shown that a focus on goal efficacy is associated with well being factor happiness (Subjective well-being) and goal integrity is associated with the well-being factor Meaning (psychology) . Multiple studies have shown the link between achieving long term goals and changes in subjective well-being, with most research showing that achieving goals that hold personal meaning to an individual, increases feelings of Subjective well-being.
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