The goal motive explanation (why goals are pursued) for the relationship between strong financial aspirations and lower well-being is that
A) strong financial motivations lead to a variety of personal and social conflicts that lower well-being.
B) people with strong financial aspirations are searching for a purpose in life, but have made a poor choice.
C) strong financial aspirations are typically adopted by people who come from impoverished backgrounds and see money as the cause and the solution to their problems.
D) strong financial aspirations are likely to involved controlled rather than autonomous sources of motivation and research shows controlled motivations lower well-being.
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