this study, in the first place, attempted to examine the relationship between english as foreign language (efl) teachers' affective constructs and their sense of responsibility. in the second place, the roles of teachers' gender, years of teaching experience, school setting, and the number of students in the classroom on teachers' affective constructs and sense of responsibility ...

We analyze the relationship between a variety of affective constructs that have been researched, as it is not clear what is the breadth of affecitve variables to model -which constructs are equivalent, related, or unrelated.

We analyze the relationship between a variety of affective constructs that have been published, as it is not clear what the relationship between these is, which are redundant or the same, and which ones are different, when it comes to automatically predicting affect in tutoring systems. A deep analysis allows to understand how affect, motivation and emotions relate to each other, and how we cou...

Individuals have affective associations with health behaviors. In other domains such associations have been shown to influence behavior, but affective associations with health behaviors are not included in current health decision-making models. The authors examined whether affective associations with exercise predicted individuals' activity behavior and, if so, how they interfaced with other de...

A comprehensive model of affect and motivation is necessary for disentangling the variance of subject specific measures into components that are (a) construct specific and generalize across different subjects, (b) subject specific and common to different constructs, and (c) specific to a particular construct in a par ticular subject. In the present study, we developed and investigated an integr...

A genetically informed cross-lagged model was applied to twin data to explore etiological links between autistic-like traits and affective problems in early childhood. The sample comprised 310 same-sex twin pairs (143 monozygotic and 167 dizygotic; 53 % male). Autistic-like traits and affective problems were assessed at ages 2 and 3 using parent ratings. Both constructs were related within and ...

The theoretical analysis in this chapter connects social psychology's central cognitive constructs, stereotype and self-concept, to its central affective constructs, attitude and self-esteem. In addition to proposing this unified account of social psychology's major theoretical constructs, the chapter seeks to unify the competing affective-cognitive consistency principles of social psychology's...

This study examined the unique associations between eating disorder symptoms and two emotion-related constructs (affective lability and anxiousness) assessed via distinct methodologies in anorexia nervosa (AN). Women (N = 116) with full or subthreshold AN completed baseline emotion and eating disorder assessments, followed by two weeks of ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Hierarchical regr...