Despite the authors’ agreement on the adequacy of the seven-original goaldirected self-talk functions, some of these categories were evaluated as too broad, and,consequently, text units with different meaning were grouped in the same category. As aresult, secondary categories were proposed. The subcategorization was required for thefour categories with the largest count of text units (inter-rater agreement for eachsecondary and tertiary category ranged between 85% and 98%). However, additional