TABLE 3.
Non-travel goals abandoned and pursued for those with self-efficacy scores of 0.
Category | Score | Reason abandoned | Category | Score | Reason pursuing |
E | 0 | It’s impossible. However, now that I think about it, I am still fulfilling professional obligations that I would have done there, just without the travel, time commitment, expense, and overwhelm of a large conference. | PFC | 0 | I’m pursuing ways to find other opportunities for alternative musical/professional work. This has moved exclusively to an online format. The overwhelming change to life has meant that each one of us has a glimpse of how life can fundamentally change in an instant - that new uncertainty also means that deferring plans (i.e., for 6 months or 1 year) also carries with it immense uncertainty that was never present in my mind before. It means that now I’m going to try to find ways to make things work in a different way as well. |
E | 0 | General consensus is that predicted grades will be accepted alongside evidence. As school is closed it is not possible to complete work. | PFC | 0 | I am planning online sessions with different groups of stakeholders during the period I have scheduled to be there |
P | 0 | Time is precious and even if I have to suffer financial losses, I am going to spend it making things that matter to me and finding ways to share them. I will find ways to make money that require less of my soul. | H | 0 | Postponed to 2021. Once the COVID-19 situation is more clear |
P | 0 | No - because this goal was very specific – I’m not dropping the overall aim of increasing cycling mileage and speed again - just need to focus on what I can currently do - and pick specific event/goal once circumstances change. | H | 0 | Not actively pursuing as everything on hold. Except for the plans for the kitchen. We’re sitting and still planning that on paper. |
U | 0 | The level of uncertainty in risk with regard to gathering people in the same place is simply too high to move forward. | H | 0 | If/when things return to a sense of normality, I will resume contact with the organizations and community groups I was working with and return to my project. However, how long this will take, if it is achievable at all, is a different kettle of fish. |
H | 0 | Delaying the event until after the lockdown | |||
NC | 0 | Music is the happiness in my life. So I want to make music. |
Columns detail the categories for abandonment/method of pursuit (categories for abandonment reason: E, external; P, priorities; U, uncertainty; categories for pursuit explanation: H, holding; NC, no change; PFC, problem-focused coping), numerical self-efficacy score, and participant free-text reason for abandoning/pursuing their goal.