English to Polish Social Sciences Psychology

current concerns - person's commitment to unmet goals.

The motivational/volitional construct of current concern (Klinger,
1975, 1977, 1989) is defined as an internal state of an organism that
continues from the beginning of a goal pursuit until the end. Although
one's consciousness generally occupies itself with the object of one or
another current concern, the construct of concern itself does not refer
to the contents of consciousness, but rather to an underlying state. This
state potentiates emotional and other responses to the cues associated
with the particular goal pursuit it represents. Thus, it is the concernrelated
cues (including internally generated ones, such as elements of
the thought stream), rather than just the existence of the concern, that
theoretically elicit orienting and other concern-related responses. Any
one concern therefore has both a persistent latent existence—one that
endures at least to consummation of the goal or until disengagement
from it—and intermittent, cue-dependent, experiential and behavioral
consequences. Because a current concern is always a state with respect
to a particular goal, there are for humans as many simultaneous current
concerns as there are ongoing goals. These may be as varied as buying a
fly swatter, finishing the reading or writing of a book, or consolidating
a love relationship.

Current Concerns and
Electrodermal Reactivity: Responses to
Words and Thoughts
by Reiner Nikula