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| Title: | Issues in the Psychology of Motivation
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| Author: | Paula R Zelick (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600216315 : 9781600216312 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 241 |
| Weight: | .764 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - February 2007 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | PSYCHOLOGY |
In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of behaviour. Motivation is a temporal and dynamic state that should not be confused with personality or emotion. Motivation is having the desire and willingness to do something. A motivated person can be reaching for a long-term goal such as becoming a professional writer or a more short-term goal like learning how to spell a particular word. Personality invariably refers to more or less permanent characteristics of an individual's state of being (eg: shy, extrovert, conscientious). As opposed to motivation, emotion refers to temporal states that do not immediately link to behaviour (eg: anger, grief, happiness). This book gathers new and important research in the field.
No Evidence for Different Features in Patchwork Families and Controls; Psychological Motivations to Choose the Medical Profession; Assessment of Achievement Motivation; Psychobiology of Motivation: Old Field, New Challenges; Ageing and Autobiographical Memory (Aging, Motivation, and Autobiographical Memory); The Function of Family Involvement in Adolescents' Aspiration Achievement; Achievement Motivation Among Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Students: Examining Cultural, Psychosocial and Socio-historical Contexts; Motivating Instructional Contexts (Motivating instructional Contexts); Relations of Fundamental Motives and Psychological Needs to Well-Being and Intrinsic Motivation; Model of Curiosity; The Art of Peace-keeping: Different Tactics in the Great Apes; Coping with Organisation Change (Managerial Coping with Organisation Change: The Role of Motivation); Psychobiosocial States in Physical Education (Dispositional Goal Orientations, Motivational Climate, and Psychobiosocial States in Physical Education; The Roles of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) in the Homeostasis of Body Fluid Osmotic Pressure; Research and Review Chapters; The Psychological Motivations to Choose the Medical Profession.
