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Detailed explanation-1: -goal acceptance The extent to which a person accepts a goal as his or her own. goal commitment The extent to which a person is personally interested in reaching a goal. goal difficulty The extent to which a goal is challenging and requires effort.

Detailed explanation-2: -Commitment Commitment refers to the degree to which an individual is attached to the goal and their determination to reach it – even when faced with obstacles. Goal performance is strongest when people are committed, and even more so when said goals are difficult (Locke & Latham, 1990).

Detailed explanation-3: -Goal commitment is generally defined as an individual’s determination to extend effort towards a goal over time in order to achieve it (Locke et al. 1981; Locke and Latham 1990). Klein et al. (2012) recently developed a clarified and generalized concept of commitment, which can be applied to any type of commitment.

Detailed explanation-4: -The goal of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is to increase psychological flexibility, or the ability to enter the present moment more fully and either change or persist in behavior when doing so serves valued ends.

Detailed explanation-5: -Three major categories of determinants of commitment are discussed: external factors (authority, peer influence, external rewards), interactive factors (participation and competition), and internal factors (expectancy, internal rewards). Applications of these ideas are made and new research directions are suggested.