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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 mechanism underlying the functioning of motivation. This book presents up-to-date basic research in motivation and self-regulation and an overview of the field, with particular emphasis on issues such as change of motivation, effects of context and culture on motivation, relations of cognition and affect in motivation and self-regulation, and motivation in school, in sports, and in the aged.
Sommario
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 Children'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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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 mechanism underlying the functioning of motivation. This book presents up-to-date basic research in motivation and self-regulation and an overview of the field, with particular emphasis on issues such as change of motivation, effects of context and culture on motivation, relations of cognition and affect in motivation and self-regulation, and motivation in school, in sports, and in the aged.
