The article presents the results of a study general motivational orientation adolescent students engaged in judo section at initial stage training. It is established that sports sections and educational institutions have different indicators structure orientation, which confirms actualization development scientific methodological base this direction; familiarization with history sports, achieve...

<p>Nowadays insufficient attention in science and penitentiary practice is paid to socio-psychological factors that cause the development of destructive leadership positive negative orientation. The material devoted improvement methods technologies preventive psychological work with juvenile offenders who are leaders their environment. authors describe main features characteristics orient...

The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher motivational practice might influence Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production. To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluati...

Received June 2, 2004 Abstract The aim of this research was to explore the influence of culture and context on students' motivational orientations, sense of well-being, and academic performance, by investigating differences among three groups of high school students, namely, Hong Kong Chinese, Canadian Chinese and Canadian of European origin on motivational variables and performance. A second g...

The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher motivational practice might influence Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production. To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluati...

Although goal pursuit is related to both functioning of the brain's reward circuits and psychological factors, the literatures surrounding these concepts have often been separate. Here, we use the psychological construct of regulatory focus to investigate individual differences in neural response to reward. Regulatory focus theory proposes two motivational orientations for personal goal pursuit...