identifying motivation factors is one of the best ways to release faculty’s energies toward active participation in research and educational affairs. in this regard, an applied research based on survey strategy conducted using 453 sample sizes from formal and visiting faculty members of payame noor as a distance education university. by literature review and some interviews with educational exp...

An analysis of contemporary motivation theories reveals implications for gifted and talented students. The expectancy-value framework, intrinsic-extrinsic motivation theories, goal orientations, self-efficacy and other self-perceptions, and attribution theory are described and discussed with respect to implications for the psychology and education of gifted and talented students. Illustrative e...

This study directly tested the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity and extrinsic motivation is detrimental. Chosen because they identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing, 72 young adults participated in individual laboratory sessions where they were asked to write 2 brief poems. Before writing the second poem, subjects in an intrinsic orientation...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.12.015 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Human Resource Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership, Uni Champaign, 351 Education Building, 1310 S. 6th Stree Tel.: +1 217 333 0807; fax: +1 217 244 5631. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S.J. Yoo), ha [email protected] (W. Huang). Acceptance of e-learning by employ...

This study aims to determine the relationship between motivation, emotional intelligence and job satisfaction among female non-academics in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). A total of 154 respondents were involved study. self-administered questionnaire was used data collection. Result revealed that had high levels extrinsic intrinsic satisfaction. Extrinsic motivation (r = 0.33, p < 0.01), 0.44...

OBJECTIVES This article investigates various motives for sickness presence (SP) among students in secondary school. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING 25 secondary schools in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Italy and Latvia. PARTICIPANTS 5002 students between 16 and 19 years of age, 49% female. RESULTS Almost half of the students reported two or more incidents of SP. The study indicated t...

Feeling connected with significant others has long been recognized as a central aspect of human motivation (e.g., Atkinson, 1964; Bowlby, 1969; Maslow, 1954; Rogers, 1951). However, the construct of belonging has received little attention from sport motivation researchers apart from a description of social motives for involvement and social sources of enjoyment (e.g., McCullagh, Matzkanin, Shaw...

Considering the importance yet paucity of help-seeking in e-learning, the present study investigated the motivational antecedents of help-seeking among online college students. We explored and compared the influences of achievement approach goals from the old and new achievement motivation models (Elliot & McGregor, 2001; Elliot, Murayama, & Pekrun, 2011) on online students’ help-seeking throug...

Abstract Guided by the social-cognitive theory and self-determination theory, this study examined whether moral disengagement is indirectly associated with pro-bullying, passive bystanding, defending, mediated autonomous motivation, introjected extrinsic amotivation to defend victims of bullying among early adolescents. Participants were 901 upper elementary students from 43 school classes at 1...

Learner motivation is considered to be an important component for the Blended e-Learning (BL) Method. BL is an effective learning method in multiple domains, which opens several opportunities for its participants to engage in the learning environment. This research explores the learners’ perspective of BL according to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT). It identifies the opportunities and chal...