The purpose of this research was to evaluate educational strategies applied to a tele-education leprosy course. The curriculum was for members of the Brazilian Family Health Team and was made available through the Sao Paulo Telehealth Portal. The course educational strategy was based on a constructivist learning model where interactivity was emphasized. Authors assessed motivational aspects of ...

As rates of preventable chronic diseases and associated costs continue to rise, there has been increasing focus on strategies to support behavior change in healthcare. Health coaching and motivational interviewing are synergistic but distinct approaches that can be effectively employed to achieve this end. However, there is some confusion in the literature about the relationship between these t...

The aim of the present study was to verify, during a stressful sport competition, the associations between motivational antecedents and consequences of the coping process. Using a two-wave design, we tested a model that incorporates motivational orientations, coping dimensions, goal attainment, and affective states among athletes (N = 122). Path analyses using EQS revealed that selfdeterminatio...

This study adopts the Keller’s ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction) motivational design framework to develop instructional strategies to integrate educational game learning into formal classroom settings. The experimental instruction lasts 8 weeks and there are 103 students in 6 grader involved. From the result of students’ opinions, motivational instruction strategies deve...

Two studies examined motivational influences on and correlates of defensive pessimism and self-handicapping and investigated the relationship between these two cognitive strategies and performance attainment. The findings indicated that defensive pessimism and self-handicapping have similar motivational profiles, with the primary difference being that self-handicapping represents the absence of...

Students do not always use efficient strategies to solve scientific problems. Students’ motivation beliefs were assessed through an on-line survey instrument, along with performance on easy and challenging multimedia science problem sets. Results indicated that female students reported lower self-efficacy and higher concerns about their performance than male students. Students’ initial strategi...