English translation: Cross-sectional / Longitudinal competition
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German to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Psychology / treatment of procrastination
German term or phrase:Querkonkurrenz / Längskonkurrenz
**Querkonkurrenz** bedeutet, dass sich die fragliche Absicht bei der Gelegenheit zur Handlungsinitiierung, also im Moment der vorgenommenen Ausführung, gegen die verschiedenen, zum gleichen Zeitpunkt auch möglichen Tätigkeiten durchsetzen muss. **Längskonkurrenz** dagegen bezeichnet im längeren Zeitverlauf die Konkurrenz verschiedener Zeitpunkte, zu denen eine bestimmte Tätigkeit ausgeführt werden kann.
Explanation: I don't have time to do a more thorough search, but please see the article by Achtziger and Gollwitzer. The word 'competition' is absolutely standard in the context of action, and the authors are experts in their field.
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Who is the target audience? How "high and mighty" need the terms be? Something like "short term decision/priority vs. long-term decision/priority" would be my suggestion for a more popular audience.
It's okay. One of the authors of my article teaches in the US, the volume is edited by Cambridge UP, and these people all know each other well. The article is recent too.
of the study that uses those terms are Kuhl and Beckmann (1994), "Volition and Personality." The only hit I get for those names with "cross-sectional competition" is study cited by Christoph. Nothing for the names and "horizontal priority."
... if the client is happy for you to invent terms.
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Cross-sectional / Longitudinal competition
Explanation: I don't have time to do a more thorough search, but please see the article by Achtziger and Gollwitzer. The word 'competition' is absolutely standard in the context of action, and the authors are experts in their field.
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Christoph Verplancke Belgium Local time: 18:36 Specializes in field Native speaker of: Dutch, Flemish PRO pts in category: 4
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Thanks, Christoph and the others who contributed their ideas
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Asker: Thanks. No wonder I don't understand it in German; I don't understand it in English either! (I found the same paper, or one very much like it, in German.) But it looks like the terms are right, whatever the psychologists may make of them.
Explanation: Try these. The terms are being defined in the source sentence anyway.
"Die fragliche Absicht...muss sich durchsetzen" conveys the idea that a particular intent must prevail, must be accorded priority over other intents/actions. In the next sentence, I read "...die Konkurrenz verschiedener Zeitpunkte..." as the priority at different points in time.
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Querkonkurrenz bedeutet, dass sich die fragliche Absicht bei der Gelegenheit zur Handlungsinitiierung, also im Moment der vorgenommenen Ausführung, gegen die verschiedenen, zum gleichen Zeitpunkt auch möglichen Tätigkeiten durchsetzen muss.
Horizontal priority means that when the time comes to initiate the action, that is, at the time of execution (of the intent), the particular intent gets priority over the other different courses of action possible/available at that time.
Längskonkurrenz dagegen bezeichnet im längeren Zeitverlauf die Konkurrenz verschiedener Zeitpunkte, zu denen eine bestimmte Tätigkeit ausgeführt werden kann.
Vertical priority, on the other hand, relates to a longer period of time and denotes the priority at different points in time when a particular action can be performed.
casper Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 12
Explanation: Is another possibiltiy for Querkonkurrenz (not sure what to pair it with - possibly "longitudinal competition", but I'm still thinking about that one)
Armorel Young Local time: 17:36 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 88
Reference information: Längskonkurrenz [existiert] wenn mehrere günstige Gelegenheiten zur Realisierung ein und desselben Ziels wahrgenommen werden. Querkonkurrenz kennzeichnet eine Situation, bei der Realisierungsgelegenheiten verschiedener Zielintentionen sich überschneiden. Beispiel für Längskonkurrenz:
Ein Student muss zwischen verschiedenen Aufbauseminaren eines Fachgebiets wählen und sich überlegen, ob er in diesem oder im nächsten Semester die ihn interessierende Veranstaltung besucht. Beispiel für Querkonkurrenz:
Ein Student muss für sich festlegen, ob er am Mittwochnachmittag die Vorlesung in seinem Hauptfach oder die in seinem Nebenfach besucht oder ob er mittwochs lieber regelmäßig jobben geht.
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