Table 2.

Standardized relationships (B coefficients) between predictors (rows) and the nature of progress monitoring (columns) in Study 2.

	Comparison to the past	Comparison to a target	Difficulty of monitoring
Number of weeks spent on goala	–0.04	0.03	0.01
Security and responsibility	0.13ˆ*	0.04	0.06
Avoidance of negative outcomes	0.03	0.06	–0.10ˆ*
Intrinsic motivation	0.08	–0.02	0.06
Quantifiability	0.16ˆ**	0.21ˆ***	–0.17ˆ**
Self-efficacy	0.05	0.08	–0.31ˆ***
Physical development/health goal	0.09	–0.10	0.09
Financial goal	–0.21ˆ**	–0.02	0.05
Work or study goal	–0.12ˆ*	–0.04	0.18ˆ**
Social relationship goal	0.10ˆ*	–0.02	0.06
R2	0.09	0.09	0.20
F	4.92ˆ***	4.43ˆ**	11.80ˆ***

^∗p < 0.05, ^∗∗p < 0.01, ^∗∗∗p < 0.001. ^aThis variable was log transformed prior to analysis.