Motivation, Management, and Mastery

Mastery motivation in toddlers with developmental disabilities.

Prior research on school-age children with mental retardation indicates that they are less motivated on tasks than mental-age-matched peers. In this study, mastery motivation on two tasks was compared for 1- and 2-year-old children with motor impairment (n = 25), developmental delay (n = 25), and typical development (n = 25), matched for mental age. The groups did not differ significantly on an...

A General Context for a Concept of Mastery Motivation

What makes people want to go on with the effort required from life? Every epistemology of behavior must sooner or later cope with this basic question. The question is not so mysterious for nonhuman organisms, which presumably have built-in genetic programs instructing them to live as long as their physical machinery is able to function. But our species has a choice: With the development of cons...

Beyond mastery? Nature management during the Anthropocene

Contextual Factors and Mastery Motivation in Young Children with and without Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review

Background Mastery motivation is the driving force behind children's desire to explore the surrounding world and their comprehensive development. However, disease factors may lower a child's motivation and hamper development. The aim of this review is to examine mastery motivation in preschool children with cerebral palsy (CP) and the impact of contextual factors on mastery motivation. Method...

A Playful Context Enhances Bilingual and Monolingual Preschoolers’ Mastery Motivation and Private Speech

A Playful Context Enhances Bilingual and Monolingual Preschoolers’ Mastery Motivation and Private Speech by Jeremy Sawyer Advisor: Anna Stetsenko Children’s private speech (audible self-talk during activity) has been studied primarily as a cognitive tool for thinking, planning and self-regulation. This study investigated whether private speech may also function as a tool for motivation. Vygotsk...