{"id":165,"date":"2023-06-27T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/daphna-oyserman\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:57:00","slug":"pathways-to-success","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/pathways-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathways-to-Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-203 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/07\/pathwaysbookpreview-232x300.png\" alt=\"Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/07\/pathwaysbookpreview-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/07\/pathwaysbookpreview-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/07\/pathwaysbookpreview-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/07\/pathwaysbookpreview-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/07\/pathwaysbookpreview-1583x2048.png 1583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>Everyone can imagine their future self, even very young children, and this future self is usually positive and education-linked. To make progress toward an aspired future or away from a feared future requires people to plan and take action. Unfortunately, most people often start too late and commit minimal effort to ineffective strategies that lead their attention elsewhere. As a result, their high hopes and earnest resolutions often fall short.<\/p>\n<p>In my book <em>Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation,<\/em> I focus on situational constraints and affordances that trigger or impede taking action. Focusing on when the future-self matters and how to reduce the shortfall between the self that one aspires to become and the outcomes that one actually attains, I introduce the reader to the core theoretical framework of identity-based motivation (IBM) theory. IBM theory is the prediction that people prefer to act in identity-congruent ways but that the identity-to-behavior link is opaque for a number of reasons (the future feels far away, difficulty of working on goals is misinterpreted, and strategies for attaining goals do not feel identity-congruent). My book goes on to also include the stakes and how the importance of education comes into play as it improves the lives of the individual, their family, and their society. The framework of IBM theory and how to achieve it is broken down into three parts: how to translate identity-based motivation into a practical intervention, an outline of the intervention, and empirical evidence that it works. In addition, the book also includes an implementation manual and fidelity measures for educators utilizing this book to intervene for the improvement of academic outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/pathways-to-success-through-identity-based-motivation-9780195341461?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation<\/em><\/a>. You can access a preview of the book via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Pathways_To_Success_Through_Identity_bas\/8DBmBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Google Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaysintervention.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pathways-to-Success intervention website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pathways-to-Success - Daphna Oyserman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/daphna-oyserman\/pathways-to-success\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pathways-to-Success - 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