Background and Purpose: Participation in regular exercise is low among young adults and is contributing to a rapid increase in obesity and chronic health conditions. Enhancing motivation is a key element in exercise initiation and maintenance. The current investigation considers factors relevant to the transtheoretical model (TTM), self-determination theory (SDT), self-efficacy (SE), and body i...

In previous studies, Self-referential tasks were set in a firstperson perspective, which did not allow an examination of the influence of perspectives on the evaluation of self and others. The objective of the present research is to examine the changes in the physiological correlates of self/other-evaluation based on perspectives, by adding a perspective variable to the previous self-referentia...

This paper develops a motivation-based perspective to explore how organisations resolve the social dilemma of knowledge sharing, and the ways in which different motivational mechanisms interact to foster knowledge sharing and creation in different organisational contexts. The core assumption is that the willingness of organisational members to engage in knowledge sharing can be viewed on a cont...

PURPOSE In previous research, the motivation of massage therapy students was observed to change between commencement of their professional studies and entry into practice. The change involved a decrease in intrinsic motivation (associated with altruism) and an increase in extrinsic motivation (associated with the prospect of external rewards). This paper reports on the influences underlying tho...

This study explored the relationships among reading motivation, strategy use and, comprehension in EFL reading. A cohort of 308 male and female students at preparatory year an emerging Saudi university completed a motivation questionnaire, test. Independent samples t-test results revealed that with high (extrinsic, intrinsic, efficacy) used three categories (pre, while, post-reading strategies)...

Background: With regard to research evidence, moral incivility has expanded in the educational environment one of these incivilities can be called academic incivility. The aim of present research was to investigation the mediating role of academic engagement in the relationship between academic motivation and academic incivility. Method: The present study is descriptive-correlational, that fro...