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How to Deal With Amotivated Students? Using Commitment to Reduce Amotivation as Applied to Hospitality Training [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, 2018
Amotivation can be considered one of the more important problems hospitality training faces. This research article aims to test whether the use of commitment can reduce amotivation and increase performance in the context of training programs.
Sébastien Fernández   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Amotivation and Functional Outcomes in Early Schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research, 2013
Negative symptoms, particularly amotivation/apathy, are intimately tied to functional outcomes. In the present study, apathy strongly predicted psychosocial functioning in a sample of early course schizophrenia patients. This relationship remained robust even after controlling for other clinical variables.
Ofer Agid
exaly   +3 more sources

Amotivation in Physical Education

European Physical Education Review, 2013
The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Amotivation Inventory in Physical Education (AI-PE). In addition, the study sought to identify the relationships between students’ amotivation, physical self-concept, and teacher ratings of National Curriculum attainment levels in PE.
Christopher Spray
exaly   +2 more sources

Intrinsic Mesocorticolimbic Connectivity Is Negatively Associated With Social Amotivation in People With Schizophrenia [PDF]

open access: yesSchizophrenia Research, 2019
Background: Social amotivation is a core element of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. However, it is still largely unknown which neural substrates underpin social amotivation in people with schizophrenia, though deficiencies in the ...
André Aleman   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Perceptions of Student Motivation and Amotivation

The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2021
Many secondary students in today’s schools are indifferent or unmotivated to accomplish academic tasks. Given the intense focus on student achievement, students’ amotivation can be devastating.
openaire   +1 more source

A Comment on the "Amotivational Syndrome" in Marijuana Smokers

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
Heavy smokers and light smokers of marijuana were compared for general psychological health, stable personality traits, changes in personality induced by long-term use of marijuana, effects of multiple drug use, and the "amotivational syndrome" that is said to result from heavy use of the drug.
D J, Kupfer   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Assessing Multidimensional Exercise Amotivation Among Adults and Older Individuals

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2010
The present study reported on the inclusion of a task-characteristics assessment to the Amotivation Toward Exercise Scale (ATES; Vlachopoulos & Gigoudi, 2008 ) and the evaluation of the revised self-report instrument (ATES-2) among physically active
Symeon P Vlachopoulos
exaly   +2 more sources

Executive Dysfunctions Differentially Predict Amotivation in First-Episode Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorder: A Prospective 1-Year Follow-Up Study

open access: yesEuropean Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2019
Amotivation is a major determinant of functional outcome in schizophrenia but it is understudied in the early course of illness. There is a paucity of longitudinal research investigating predictors of amotivation.
Christy L M Hui   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Schizophrenia: An Amotivational Syndrome in Men

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1985
A series of studies of the phenomenology and biochemistry of schizophrenia suggests that the fundamental nature of schizophrenia differs in men and women. In men, schizophrenia appears to be an amotivational syndrome possibly mediated by dopaminergic underactivity; in women, schizophrenia is perhaps best conceptualized as an affective disorder variant.
openaire   +2 more sources

An Amotivation Model in Physical Education

Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2010
Amotivation refers to a state in which individuals cannot perceive a relationship between their behavior and that behavior’s subsequent outcome. With the belief that considering amotivation as a multidimensional construct could reflect the complexity of motivational deficits in physical education, we developed this study to validate an amotivation ...
Bo Shen   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

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