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If You Think It You Can Achieve It: The Relationship Between Goal Specificity And Magical Thinking, Brianna Jones
If You Think It You Can Achieve It: The Relationship Between Goal Specificity And Magical Thinking, Brianna Jones
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Previous research has found a connection between the type of goals that individuals set and psychopathology, specifically depression (Dickson & Moberly, 2013). Magical thinking is the belief that a person’s thoughts are connected to their actions or to future outcomes (Markle, 2010). Magical thinking has been found to be a primary feature in many psychological disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (Shihata et al., 2014). The present study is the first of the literature to examine the relationships between goal setting and magical thinking as well as magical thinking and various psychological disorders such as depression. The current study examined the …