The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a new measure of client motivation for therapy, the Client Motivation for Therapy Scale. This scale is designed to measure client's Intrinsic Motivation, four forms of regulation for Extrinsic Motivation (integrated, identified, introjected, and external regulation), and Amotivation for therapy. These subscales correspond t...

Personality traits and motivation have been predictive of athletic success. Conscientiousness, intrinsic motivation (IM), and extrinsic motivation (EM) positively predict sport performance, while amotivation (AM) has a negative impact. This study examined the effects of both sport motivation and conscientiousness on athletic performance. Methods included a cross-sectional survey study of endura...

To determine the relationship between multidimensional performance characteristics and level of performance in talented youth field hockey players, elite youth players (n = 38, mean age 13.2 years, s = 1.26) were compared with sub-elite youth players (n = 88, mean age 14.2 years, s = 1.26) on anthropometric, physiological, technical, tactical and psychological characteristics. Multivariate anal...

Recommender Systems have been traditionally utilized in online environments to personalize product and service offerings and can contribute towards the persuasion of a user to select or consume the recommended items. The present study examines the aforementioned systems in ubiquitous environments and focuses on the persuasive role of customer’s motivational conditions to consume a product as we...

In this paper I discuss a key issue for group moral responsibility, namely whether we can make sense of acting one reason rather than another. The notion another is central to standard accounts individual agency and responsibility; also determines an blameworthy or praiseworthy action. Thus if model responsibility on need be able paper, raise problems both summative inflationary what it act rea...

We obtain the class N A of noncommutative cylindric algebras from the class CA of cylindric algebras by weakening the axiom C 4 of commuta-tivity of cylindrifications (to C * 4 , see below, and we obtain N CA from CA by omitting C 4 completely). Some motivation for studying noncommutative cylindric algebras: Noncommutative cylindric algebras (N A's) have the same " substi-tutional structure " a...

It is highly recommended to promptly assess motivation and readiness to change (RTC) in individuals who wish to achieve significant lifestyle behavior changes in order to improve their health, overall quality of life, and well-being. In particular, motivation should be assessed for those who face the difficult task to maintain weight, which implies a double challenge: weight loss initially and ...