Compilation Of Goal Pursuit Scale And Its Preliminary Application

This study aims to develop a simple and reasonable goal pursuit scale suitable for Chinese people,to enrich local measurement tools,and explore the relationship between individual goal pursuit and mental health.This study constructing item pools and screening items by consulting literature,semi-structured interviews and expert evaluation;Conducting prediction tests on 260 subjects to analyze the item’s discrimination,and carrying out the exploratory factor analysis to form a formal scale;second testing the 800 subjects,undertaking the scale’s reliability and validity,including confirmatory factor analysis.Using the self-made goal pursuit scale,the existing depression and anxiety mood scale,and the subjective wellbeing scale,to investigate the 600 healthy people and 60 depression patients,using independent sample t test,one-way ANOVA,correlation analysis and regression analysis to analyze the differences in demographic variables of individual goal pursuits and explore the relationship between goal pursuits and mental health.The results show that(1)After exploratory factor analysis,it is determined that the goal pursuit scale contains 4 first-order factors and 2 second-order factors,with 19 entries.The first-order: external rewards,good image,harmonious relationship and independent development;the second-order factors: external goals and internal goals.(2)Reliability,content validity,structural validity,and validity of the target pursuit scale of each dimension and total score are good.(3)There was a statistical difference in goal pursuit between gender,annual income,and age.(4)There are significant differences between healthy people and depression patients in goal pursuit scores.(5)The firstorder factor: harmonious relationship and autonomous development,and the secondorder factor: internal goals were significantly negatively related to depression;the firstorder factor: autonomous development and the second-order factor: internal goals were significantly negatively related to anxiety.(6)All factors of goal pursuit were significantly positively correlated with subjective well-being.The dimension of autonomous development can significantly predict subjective well-being.This dimension can explain the variation of subjective well-being of 12.4%.Conclusion: Goal pursuit has good reliability and validity,it can be used as a measurement tool for the individual goals pursuit;Variables such as gender,age,and income have an impact on individual goals;The individual’s pursuit of internal goals such as independent development and harmonious relations is an important factor that affects the mental health.