the purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of intelligence beliefs and achievement motivation on learning strategies and academic performance of agricultural students. this research was descriptive - correlation with data collected using questionnaire. the statistical population included students in colleges of agriculture at universities of tehran, bouali sina, ilam, shahid bah...

We analyze in this paper the dynamics of the production rates in creative professions from a purely theoretical point of view. The analysis is an extension of a previous work in which self-esteem was assumed to be the unique source of motivation. By contrast, in this paper we assume that the individual is stimulated by a mix of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and we show that extrinsic motiv...

Blogging is sometimes viewed as a new, grassroots form of journalism and a way to shape democracy outside the mass media. In this study, we present a model that addresses the relationships among bloggers’ motivations and their conduct, and report the empirical validation of the model. Expectancy theory is applied to construct a conceptual framework and identify key factors that motivate blogger...

Lack of creative ideas is always the biggest challenge that firms are facing in their innovative activity (Leimeister et al. 2009), and firms are increasing use crowdsourcing to capture diversity ideas from external people. Unfortunately, these crowdsourcing activities can sometime lead to ideas with less creativity than those ideas generated by internal employees (Blohm et al. 2011; Boudreau 2...

Introduction: Webster's defines the word " motivate " as " impel or to urge forward by the exertion of strong moral pressure. " In the context of academia and education, however, motivation takes on a slightly different meaning. According to Linda Nilson, the term means " stimulating the desire to learn something. " 1 There are, of course, two types of motivation when it comes to education or a...

Achievements in games are assumed to be extrinsic motivators yet this has not been shown to be the case experimentally. This study attempts to determine whether achievements exhibit characteristics more closely related to intrinsic or extrinsic motivators. An experiment was conducted in order to examine the effects of Achievements in a controlled environment. It was found that Achievements show...

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...

We analyze in this paper the dynamics of the production rates in creative professions from a purely theoretical point of view. The analysis is an extension of a previous work in which self-esteem was assumed to be the unique source of motivation. By contrast, in this paper we assume that the individual is stimulated by a mix of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and we show that extrinsic motiv...

OBJECTIVE To investigate medical students' career choice motivation and its relationship with their academic interest and performance. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study in a sample (n=207) of medical students at a private medical school in Korea, stratified by year of medical course. Data about participant demographics, career choice motivation and academic interest were collected ...

Recent research suggests that extrinsic rewards promote memory consolidation through dopaminergic modulation processes. However, no conclusive behavioral evidence exists given that the influence of extrinsic reward on attention and motivation during encoding and consolidation processes are inherently confounded. The present study provides behavioral evidence that extrinsic rewards (i.e., moneta...