Problematic playing behaviour in terms of addiction is well known to be associated with specific traits (e.g., self-esteem) and weak social settings (e.g., negative relationships). What remains unclear is the impact of playing motives on addictive tendencies. We investigated how playing motives were related to problematic playing behaviour. Using ratings indicating explicit motives and response...

Emotion regulation involves the pursuit of desired emotional states (i.e., emotion goals) in the service of superordinate motives. The nature and consequences of emotion regulation, therefore, are likely to depend on the motives it is intended to serve. Nonetheless, limited attention has been devoted to studying what motivates emotion regulation. By mapping the potential benefits of emotion to ...

Article history: Received 5 May 2014 This study examines the motives mentors have for providing developmental support to their protégés. Based on qualitative interviewswith 20 informalmentors, we show five broad categories of mentor motives: self-focused motives (based on individual reasons), protégé-focused motives (directed at the protégé), relationship-focused motives (directed at the relati...

The aim was to test a three-level model of motivation, derived from selfdetermination theory. According to the model, dispositional motives (represented by life goals) influence participatory motives (exercise participation motives), which influence regulatory motives (exercise behavioural regulations), which influence behaviour (exercise participation). The participants were 251 young adults. ...

Food choice motives vary according to the type of diet (omnivore or vegetarian). Symptoms disordered eating are not directly associated with vegetarianism veganism. Vegans have better health indicators than omnivores. Few studies examined differences in food motivations and disorders different types vegetarian diets (i.e., partial, strict, vegan), even though these characterized by varying degr...

Rae and Lonborg’s (2015) findings are intriguing. They show greater Facebook (FB) use intensity can have beneficial or adverse effects on psychological well-being (PWB) depending on the user’s motives. This underlines that not all motives are equal: some motives are harmful and others helpful when it comes to PWB and psychopathology outcomes. Four central issues were raised: (1) exclusive focus...

We introduce the notion of biextensions of 1-motives by 1-motives and we define morphisms from the tensor product of two 1-motives to a third 1-motive as isomorphism classes of such biextensions. If S is the spectrum of a field of characteristic 0, we check that these biextensions define morphisms from the tensor product of the realizations of two 1-motives to the realization of a third 1-motiv...

The study is aimed at investigating the connection between the friendliness of the home environment and the moral motives' level. The friendliness of the home environment includes two aspects: the number of functions provided by home (functionality) and the congruence of these functions with inhabitants' needs (relevance). The theoretical framework of the study was formed by research and ideas ...