Individuals’ motivational self-regulatory system is challenged as they cross the transition from school to work. Using data from a longitudinal study of participants approaching and crossing university graduation (n 1⁄4 140), we examine the ways in which individuals’ motivational strategies reflect and direct their career-related opportunity field. Our findings indicate that participants’ belie...

Many would agree that learning on the Web – a highly autonomous learning environment – may be difficult for individuals who lack motivation and self-regulated learning skills. Using a social cognitive view of academic motivation and self-regulation, the objective of the present study was to investigate the relations between students’ motivational beliefs, their perceptions of the learning envir...

Based on the fact that the relationships among student teachers’ efficacy beliefs, achievement goals, and conceptions about teaching and learning has remained to be investigated to date, this study aimed to examine student teachers’ efficacy beliefs and achievement goals as predictors of their conceptions about teaching and learning. Results of the present study showed that student teachers’ co...

Rao and Georgeff’s BDICTL logic is a popular specification and verification language for cognitive agent systems, in which desires and goals are unified into a single motivational attitude. In this paper desires and goals are distinguished to specify the merging of desires into goals, an important process in several agent systems such as Broersen et al.’s BOID system. We therefore introduce a B...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas pelatihan kelompok dengan pendekatan experiential learning terhadap peningkatan motivational beliefs pada siswa sekolah dasar. Secara lebih spesifik, merujuk daur belajar Kolb, dan aspek yang disasar tersusun dari empat yaitu efikasi diri, outcome expectation, task interest/value, goal orientation. menggunakan kuantitatif, desain eksperiment...

Abstract In college, students often encounter situations in which they struggle to meet their academic goals difficult courses. We integrate the Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development and Situated Expectancy-Value investigate how motivational beliefs experiences a course predict use goal engagement oriented adjustment control strategies that can help stay engaged challenging used survey d...

This study describes the relationship between motivation factors and academic performance among distance education students enrolled in a postgraduate nursing course. Students (n=96) participated in a survey that assesses student's motivational orientations from a cognitive perspective using a selfadministered questionnaire based on Pintrich’s Motivation Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (M...

The type of learning activity offered in physical education may influence students' motivational beliefs, physical activity participation and effort/persistence in class. However, most empirical studies have focused on the individual level rather than on the learner-content interactions. Accordingly, the potential effects of learning activities on these outcome variables have been overlooked. T...

BACKGROUND Main suggested theories about patients' adherence to treatment regimens recognize the importance of motivation in positive changes in behaviors. Since cardiac diseases are chronic and common, cardiac rehabilitation as an effective prevention program is crucial in management of these diseases. There is always concern about the patients' adherence to cardiac rehabilitation. The aim of ...

Self-efficacy denotes people's beliefs about their ability to perform in different situations. It functions as a multilevel and multifaceted set of beliefs that influence how people feel, think, motivate themselves, and behave during various tasks. Self-efficacy beliefs are informed by enactive attainment, vicarious experience, imaginal experiences, and social persuasion as well as physical and...