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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Motivational Orientation"”.
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Tailoring health message frames to motivational orientation: A scoping review
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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The Interaction of Motivational Orientation and Social Context in a Flight Setting
… of this study was to explore the effects of motivational orientation and social context on decisions made during flight. Cultural dimensions such as power distance, uncertainty avoidance and individualism have been found to correlate with aviation accident rates. Self-determination theory …
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The effects of profit knowledge, size of initial concession, and motivational orientation on "aspiration level" versus "reciprocity" in bilateral bargaining
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Communication Studies, 1984.
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The effects of topic choice in project-based instruction on undergraduate physical science students' interest, ownership, and motivation
… Course for nonscience majors' on students' motivational orientation. It also suggested and tested a model explaining motivational outcomes of project-based learning environment through increased student ownership of science projects. A project, How Things Work, was designed and implemented …
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Influence on the Creativity of Children's Poetry Writing
… are presented a socially-induced intrinsic motivational orientation than when presented an extrinsic motivational orientation. Eighty sixth grade students were assigned to either a control group, intrinsic motivation group, or extrinsic motivation group. After writing the initial poem, …
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Testing Regulatory Fit in the Context of Performance Feedback
… in a manner that either did or did not fit their motivational orientation. Hypotheses predicted that compared to instances of non-fit, conditions of regulatory fit between recommendation frame (Eager vs. Vigilant) and motivational orientation (Promotion vs. Prevention) would have a significantly …
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The Relationship Between Students' Motivation and Perceptions of the Learning Environment
… of the learning environment and their motivational orientation. The study was also designed to determine if there was a significant difference in satisfaction with the learning environment between first-year, second-year, and third-year students. The aim of the study was to be able to …
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Reconceptualizing Flow from a Self-Regulatory Framework
… of flow are the antecedents of feeling right, motivational orientation and goal pursuit strategies. Finally, I propose that the flow state only be characterized by four components, merging of action and awareness, centering of attention, loss of self-consciousness, and temporal distortion. …
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Experiences Of Successful African American And Hispanic Non-Traditional Single Mothers At An Urban Community College
… are present, it is essential to know the motivational orientation of the single parent who has persisted and stay enrolled. Besides documenting the research on programming and policies, the present study explored what motivation students needed to be resilient and persist through their …
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The relationships among ideational fluency, self-reports of creativity, intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, and perceived parenting style in gifted and nongifted adolescents
… to examine the relationships among creativity, motivational orientation, and perceived parenting style in gifted and nongifted adolescents; to compare gifted and nongifted adolescents in creativity, motivational orientation, and perceived parenting style; and to establish preliminary validation …
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Don't forget to remember: motivation and environmental cues affect prospective memory performance
… others are prosocial, and both are influenced by motivational forces. This study examined these relationships using a monetary incentive to moderate motivation, and explored how metacognition was affected. College students (N = 75) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (i.e., …
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Feel-Good Or Feel-Right: the Role of Moral Emotions and Other-Orientation In Prosocial Behavior In the Workplace
… leading to prosocial behavior, involving motivational orientation, emotions, and cognitive processing. Specifically, I argue that other-orientation influences the extent to which individuals experience moral emotions in conflicts of interest situations, and that moral emotions, in turn, …
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Malleability of Cognitive Style and its Implications for Management Practice
… Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale (SRDS), and motivational orientation was measured by a range of self-developed questions. The final part of this second phase adopted inductive methodology and contained 19 follow-up semistructured interviews with specially selected participants to explore how …
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Measuring Approach-Avoidance Motivation: Expanding the Dimensionality and the Implied Outcomes Problem
… fully represent and measure approach-avoidance motivational orientation using self-reports. Participants responded to a variety of existing, revised, and new scales across the theoretical spectrum of approach-avoidance motivation. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted to identify the items …
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Motivational orientations of RN-BSN students at Rowan University
The purpose of this study was to research the motivational orientation of diploma and associate prepared nurses enrolled in a RN-BSN program, by examining what factors influence students to participate in adult education activities. Research was conducted at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey …
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Examining the Effects of Horizontal Conflict in Regulatory Fit Theory in the Context of Performance Feedback
… (Higgins et al., 2001) to measure their chronic motivational orientation, then worked on an adapted version of an in-basket task (Holmes & Hauenstein, 2012) across two sessions. Hypotheses predicted that compared to instances of non-fit, conditions of regulatory fit between chronic and …
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The relationship of instructional approach to creativity in home-schooled children
… approach were found in four primary areas: goal orientation, autonomy, motivational orientation, and instructional format. These instructional factors were significantly related (p<.05) to the number of children being home schooled, the prior schooling experiences of the children, the parents' …
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The competitive female skater: what motivates her?
<p>The present study explored motivational orientation of 12 females (age 9 - 18) who participated in figure skating. The hypothesis used was that competitive skaters, with more demands on their time and finances, would more often exhibit an avoidance of failure motivation when participating in …
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Motivational factors for attending college of first-time students in developmental and non-developmental courses in selected institutions
… is known about their reasons for enrolling. A motivational orientation measure was used in this study to compare reasons why developmental and non-developmental students enrolled in courses at three colleges: Hampton Institute, Old Dominion University, and a two-year community college. These …
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Motivations and problems of the adult woman student
… on both instruments, It was expected that both motivational orientation and perceived problems would vary as a function of age. Analysis of the data supported this expectation: the younger women in the sample were experiencing different motivating factors and problems than were the older women. …
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