Instrumentality plays a key role in guiding attention, such that stimuli associated with achieving current goals of an individual prioritize attention. However, depression, attention is prioritized to negative even when they are not relevant goals. In the study, we tested whether avoidance imminent consequences over affective stimuli. Using eye-tracking based engagement-disengagement task, pres...

Aim: Adapt the 3×2 Achievement Goal Questionnaire for Sport in a Brazilian sporting context and examine its psychometric properties. Methods: A total of 211 athletes seven different sports responded to adapted instrument. Results: The confirmatory factor analysis supported measurement model Model with some error correlations invariance across gender, but not type sport application. In terms int...

A significant amount of research in attachment theory has been devoted to factors affecting academic achievement, but less attention has been given to the role of attachment in the relation between academic achievement and achievement motivation. The current preliminary study examined the role of perceived parental attachment in achievement motivation. Self-report data obtained from the Parenta...

This study examined the relationships between the approach-avoidance dimension, as well as the mastery-performance dimension of achievement goals, implicit theory of intelligence, and behavioral regulations among engineering students in a polytechnic in the academic domain. Polytechnic students (n = 1359) from Singapore participated in the survey. They were assessed on achievement goal orientat...

Appraisal theory explains the elicitation of emotional reactions as a consequence of subjective evaluations based on personal needs, goals, desires, abilities, and beliefs. According to the appraisal approach, each emotion is caused by a characteristic pattern of appraisals, and different emotions are associated with different appraisals. This paper presents the DEBECO architecture, a computati...

In this paper, we present a method for an animated human agent to construct motion plans to achieve 3D-space postural goals, e.g. a goal of a hand, while avoiding collisions. We use the potential eld approach by providing mechanisms to handle the problem of local minimum. Given a conjunctive goal of multiple control points on the body, the potential eld approach tries to minimize the objective ...

The large body of goal theory research that has induced performance goals or included them on forced-choice questionnaires has produced coherent results. However, the few studies available on the matter suggest that students rarely generate performance goals spontaneously, if performance goals are defined in normative terms (i.e., outperforming peers). Furthermore, although students may need so...