The purpose of the present study was to describe motivational processes in a situation of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). The study focused on examining whether students representing different motivational orientations would be able to productively function in a CSCL environment in which self-regulation and collaborative inquiry were encouraged. Coping with the new learning en...

INTRODUCTION Motivational interviewing techniques have been minimally researched as a function of a teenage smoking intervention. The present study examined the efficacy of a theory-based motivational tobacco intervention (MTI). METHODS A randomized two-group design was used to compare 6-month post-baseline quit and reduction rates among teenagers who received the MTI with those who received ...

Processing the motivational relevance of a visual scene and reacting accordingly is crucial for survival. Previous work suggests the emotional content of naturalistic scenes affects response speed, such that unpleasant content slows responses whereas pleasant content accelerates responses. It is unclear whether these effects reflect motor-cognitive processes, such as attentional orienting, or v...

OBJECTIVE Understanding mechanisms of motivational interviewing (MI) could improve practice. Planning is important for behavior change, and a component of MI. We aimed to develop a scale to measure planning talk within MI and explore the potential association between planning and weight loss maintenance (WLM). METHODS A literature review and thematic analysis was used to develop the coding sy...

Soria and colleagues used trained physicians to give motivational interviewing (MI). Physicians recruited and randomised using sealed envelopes. The distribution of patients favours MI with 114 people in the MI group and 86 in the brief advice group. The P-value for the χ for goodness of fit to the binomial distribution is 0.048. Patients in the MI group were more likely to intend to stop smoki...