Despite a large body of research on motivation in psychology, few in information systems have related it to the information and communication technology acceptance research. This study investigates the relation between the Self-Determination Theory of Motivation and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Model and confirms significant relationship across the two theories...

Background: Motivation is a driver to health worker performance in most Ghanaian hospitals. In view of this, Ghana’s Ministry of Health has rolled out enough motivational policies to accentuate work performance of health workers. Objective: The focus of this study was to examine the impact of motivation and identify how intrinsic and extrinsic motivating ...

In this paper we will discribe a system that motivates robots with a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic sources of motivation. The system is based on reinforcement learning, and uses neural networks to predict the effects of the robot’s actions on the environment and rewarding it for improvement in predictions, while also granting other extrinsic rewards for specific actions. We then test t...

This study investigated gender, age group and locality differences in adolescent athletes' self-determination motivation and goal orientations in track and field. It also examined the relationship between the self-determination theory and achievement goal theory. A total of 632 (349 boys, 283 girls) adolescent athletes (aged 13-18 years) completed the Sports Motivation Scale and Task and Ego Or...

The present study was designed to investigate the nature, timing, and correlates of motivational change among a large sample (N = 1051) of thirdthrough eighth-grade students. Analyses of within-year changes in students’ motivational orientations revealed that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations decreased from fall to spring, with declines in intrinsic motivation especially pronounced for t...

According to empirical evidence, extrinsic incentives often crowd out intrinsic motivation, thus reducing the effort choices of workers. This article presents a simple model illustrating how the introduction of monetary incentives causes a discontinuous reduction in worker effort as well as a reduction in worker motivation to act in the interest of a principal. The primary finding is that motiv...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among creativity, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and creative home environment. The results of this study were as follows: First, there were significant positive relationships between the intrinsic motivation and the creative personality of the young children but there were no statistically significant relations between the intrinsic...

Numerous social and educational psychologists propose that intrinsic motivation generated by personal interests and spontaneous satisfactions is qualitatively different from extrinsic types of motivation generated by external compensations and also that intrinsic motivation is more beneficial to learning than extrinsic types of motivation. However, in the field of neuroscience, intrinsic motiva...

The present study was designed to identify and evaluate naturally-occurring combinations of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Cluster analysis revealed four distinct motivational profiles based on a sample of middleschool students (N = 343): those with high levels of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations (high quantity), low levels of both types of motivation (low quantity), high intrinsi...

Age differences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the relationships of each to academic outcomes were examined in an ethnically-diverse sample of 797 thirdthrough eighth-grade children. Using independent measures, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation were found to be only moderately correlated, suggesting that they may be largely orthogonal dimensions of motivation in school. Consistent w...