Digging into the history of motivation research, we deduced that, the investigations have targeted individuals’ performance as the overt indication of this invisible drive. Yet, it is hypothesized that there exists a variation of motivation which does not lead to a certain action and is only confined to one’s mental engagement with a concept or activity. To further explicate, we put forward a d...

Background: Demand for treatment for Internet-related troubles in adolescents is rising. The profiles of patients in a clinical population are not accurately known and we hypothesize motivation could be useful for characterization. We describe a sample of outpatients, differentiate between two groups based on their motivation, and describe the clinical differences found between them. Methods: O...

motivation is perhaps the most frequently used term for explaining the success and failure of educational tasks. numerous studies have shown that motivation is a key to learning (gardner and lambert, 1972). however, such experiments give us an understanding of what motivation is and what the components of motivation are. but they usually fail to reveal that someone is motivated or how we can cr...

Introduction The selection of the right persons for a job is decisive for the success of a business, as it determines the working performance of the employees and to a large extent their job satisfaction, motivation and commitment. As a result, efforts are made, above all in Englishspeaking countries, to supplement the subjective impression from the job interview with standardised "objective" a...

This study examines the potential connections among learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English, their perceptions of autonomy-supportive teaching and two individual difference variables, i.e. motivation and English speaking self-efficacy. Two hundred and five Iranian EFL learners responded to four questionnaires. The data obtained from the collected instruments were...

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact religiosity on employee motivation learn and transfer in context public sector Malaysia. data was collected through a survey at two points time. respondents are 306 employees Malaysia, who attended specific training program. were analyzed using structural equation modeling. findings reveal both significant predictors transfer, with recording hi...

The syndrome of spatial neglect results from the combination of a number of deficits in attention, with patients demonstrating both spatially lateralized and non-lateralized impairments. Previous reports have hinted that there may be a motivational component to neglect and that modulating this might alleviate some of the debilitating symptoms. Additionally, recent work on the effects of reward ...

This research examines whether spontaneous, unintentional discriminatory behavior can be moderated by an implicit (nonconscious) motivation to control prejudice. We operationalize implicit motivation to control prejudice (IMCP) in terms of an implicit negative attitude toward prejudice (NAP) and an implicit belief that oneself is prejudiced (BOP). In the present experiment, an implicit stereoty...