Abstract The current study presents the development and validation of a questionnaire on motivational competence in exercise sport. Motivational characterises self-determined ability to choose suitable sport activity. Knowing one’s own preferences what expect different activities helps people make this choice, which, turn, supports them maintaining their physical activity (PA) long-term regular...

This study used PGSI to measure the motives of online stock exchange gamblers according to their responses about their online gambling. The main aim of the current study is to holistically explore the impact of motivational factors that motivate more usage of online gambling in Pakistan and behavioral factors that investigate the level of implementation of responsible gambling practices on PGSI...

Motivational interviewing is a directive, non-confrontational intervention to promote behavior change. The current study examined therapist behaviors during a successful brief motivational interviewing intervention for physically aggressive college dating couples (Woodin & O'Leary, 2010). Forty-five minute motivational interviews with each partner were videotaped and coded using the Motivationa...

INTRODUCTION This study examines the outcomes of a 22-hr motivational interviewing (MI) course and compares online and in-person offerings of the course. It also evaluates clinicians' ability to accurately self-assess their MI skills. METHOD 34 clinicians participated in this study and completed MI workshops either in-person or online. Use of MI in an acting patient encounter was recorded ear...

Objectives: To examine goal process cognition as a mediator of the relationship between self-determined motivational ratings and strenuous exercise participation. Design: Cross-Sectional Survey. Methods: University students (N 1⁄4 535) identified their most important exercise goal and rated this goal according to the nine goal process dimensions of the Goal Systems Assessment Battery (GSAB; [Ka...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between perceived motivational climate and self – determination judokas in iranian pro league, which was carried out by a descriptive field method. the statistical population of this study comprised the entire judokas of pro league in iran. statistical sample set of 126 judokas of pro league in iran. in order to collect data, demograph...

Early neural research on self-evaluation began testing whether self-evaluation was somehow neurally different than evaluations of other people and inanimate objects. Self-evaluation was lauded as potentially unique partially because of motivational and affective influences. Despite the acknowledgement that motivation influences social cognition such as self-perception, neural models of self-per...