Young individuals’ consideration of goal-self alignment and its relations to goal commitment and social concern: age differences and similarities

We examined middle-school, high-school, and college students in South Korea (n = 733) to discern age-related differences in considerations of alignment between life goals and self (i.e., competence, interest, and identity), personal goal commitment, and social concern for others. We also investigated the relations of the alignment considerations to personal goal commitment and social concern for others. Mean-level analyses revealed cross-age...