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Trends and Prospects in Motivation Research

Researchers in achievement motivation are becoming all the more aware of the importance of affect in motivation and self-regulation. This leads to extension and integration of existing theories as well as to new theories that provide a good account of existing data and offer new insight into the mec...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Efklides, Anastasia. (Editor), Kuhl, Julius. (Editor), Sorrentino, Richard M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Cognitive psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Cognitive Psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Achievement and Task-Related Motivation
  • Delimiting and Integrating Achievement Motive and Goal Constructs
  • How to Combine Intrinsic Task-Motivation with the Motivational Effects of the Instrumentality of Present Tasks for Future Goals
  • The Role of Perceived Instrumentality in Student Motivation
  • Experimentally Induced Effects of Goal Distance in Time on the Relations between Achievement Motives, Future Time Orientation and Indications of Performance in Sports
  • Motivation, Performance and Satisfaction at School
  • Teaching and Parenting Styles Related to ChildrenỚ"s Achievement Motivation and Learning Outcomes
  • Mapping the Domain of Autonomy Support
  • A Model of Motivational Change in Transition Contexts
  • Learning in Basic Electricity
  • Goal Orientations and Action-Control Beliefs
  • Motivation, Cognition, and Self-Regulation
  • A Theory of Uncertainty Orientation
  • Overcoming Defensive Feedback Seeking
  • Changes in Task Orientation and Self-Evaluation Across Phases of a Transition
  • A Functional Approach to Motivation
  • Motivation, Information Processing and Performance
  • Metacognitive Experiences in Problem Solving
  • The Effects of General Success-Related Beliefs and Specific Metacognitive Experiences on Causal Attributions
  • Optimism as a Moderator of the Effect of State Orientation on the Evaluation of Negative Life Events
  • Genetic vs. Environmental Determinants of Traits, Motives, Self-Referential Cognitions, and Volitional Control in Old Age
  • Motives, Personal Goals, and Life Satisfaction on Old Age.

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