Negative affect and ruminative self-focus during everyday goal pursuit.

Sobel (1982) tests of the mediated effects of negative affect on ruminative self-focus were highly significant for goal importance ( z = 5.04, p < .001), goal success ( z = 10.58, p < .001), and the importance by success interaction ( z = 3.97, p < .001).

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As predicted, the combination of low goal success and high goal importance was associated with the highest levels of negative affect, and this interaction was marginally significant for ruminative self-focus.

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