We developed and tested a model in which transformational leadership affects sports performance indirectly, through the mediating effects of intrinsic motivation. During the season. 168 university athletes provided data on their perceptions of their coach’s transformational leadership and their own intrinsic motivation. At the end of the season, their coaches assessed the performance of the ath...

Instant Messaging (IM) has become one of the most popular applications for many Internet users. While prior research has primarily focused on IM initial adoption, continued usage (or continuance) has not drawn much attention. This research integrates media choice theories with motivation theory to explain IM continuance. It tests the proposed model using data collected from a sample of 207 Chin...

A core feature of schizophrenia (SCZ) is impairment in intrinsic motivation. Although intrinsic motivation plays an important role in enhancing improvement of the social functioning, its neural mechanisms of impairment have yet to be clarified. We hypothesized that abnormal function of the frontostriatal loop consisting of the striatum and lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) may be related to impa...

The present study compared the relationship between motivation for intimacy and level of premorbid adjustment for men and women with schizophrenia. A sample of 34 schizophrenic patients (14 male and 20 female) were studied. Stories told in response to six TAT cards were scored for Intimacy Motivation (IM). Levels of Premorbid adjustment (PA) and Asociality (ASOC) were assessed. A statistically ...

OBJECTIVE Pay-for-performance programmes have been widely implemented in primary care, but few studies have investigated their potential adverse effects on the intrinsic motivation of general practitioners (GPs) even though intrinsic motivation may be a key determinant of quality in health care. Our aim was to compare methods for developing a composite score of GPs' intrinsic motivation and to ...

Motivation Englisch spezifizieren – für deutsche Unternehmen die ihre Produkte im Ausland entwickeln lassen (Offshoring) eine Notwendigkeit; für die Mitarbeiter in den Fachbereichen, die sich in der Fremdsprache nicht unbedingt sicher fühlen, eine Herausforderung. Im folgenden Artikel möchten wir einige Aspekte der Problematik näher beleuchten und Wege aufzeigen, wie Unternehmen kurzfristig mit...

Theories of management and work motivation distinguish between two kinds of rewards--extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic rewards are ones such as money and verbal reinforcement which are mediated outside of the person, whereas intrinsic rewards are mediated within the person. We say a person is intrinsically motivated to perform an activity if there is no apparent reward except the activity itse...

Zusammenfassung: Viele verschiedene Ansätze zur Modellierung von Anforderungen wurden im Verlauf der Zeit entwickelt. Doch der prinzipielle Zusammenhang zwischen diesen Notationen ist weitestgehend unklar. Im Rahmen der beschriebenen Arbeit wurde ein Referenzmodell abgeleitet, dass mehrere sehr verschiedene Notationen integriert. Das mittelfristige Ziel der beschriebenen Arbeiten ist eine Basis...