Recent research has shown that daily changes in self-efficacy predict lapses and relapse into smoking after quitting among adolescent daily smokers, but it is not known if and how momentary self-efficacy is associated with affect-motivational states and external contexts. In the present study, 134 adolescent daily smokers were monitored daily during 1 week prior to and 3 weeks after they began ...

Physical education teachers can influence students' self-determination through the motivational strategies that they use. The current study examined how teachers' reported use of three motivational strategies (providing a meaningful rationale, providing instrumental help and support, and gaining an understanding of the students) were predicted by perceived job pressure, perceptions of student s...

30 Background: Frequent handwashing can prevent infections, but non-compliance to hand 31 hygiene is pervasive. Few theoryand evidence-based interventions to improve regular 32 handwashing are available. Therefore, two intervention modules, a motivational and a self33 regulatory one, were designed and evaluated. 34 Methods: In a longitudinal study, 205 young adults, aged 18 to 26 years, were ra...

Abstract Second language (L2) anxiety is the most studied affective factor in field of second acquisition. Numerous studies have been conducted on this emotion from different perspectives over last few decades. These can be classified into three groups. The first group has tried to conceptualize and operationalize L2 identify components or dimensions construct (e.g., Cheng, 2004; Horwitz et al....

This article examines the psychological underpinnings of social networks by drawing on regulatory focus theory—an overarching distinction between two basic motivational systems that underlie people's self-regulations, motivated cognitions, and strategic preferences. We propose that regulatory focus influences people's (a) networking strategies and consequent structures, (b) abilities to exploit...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which Korean seniors report employing different motivational and social cognitive strategies related to physical activity, and to evaluate which motivational and social cognitive strategies were related to physical activity, and which motivational and social cognitive strategies differentiate between high active and low-active Korean se...