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Job autonomy in relation to work engagement and workaholism: Mediation of autonomous and controlled work motivation

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2018
Objectives This study integrates the Self Determination Theory and the Job Demands–Resource model in explaining motivational antecedents of 2 forms of excessive work: work engagement and workaholism.
Diana Malinowska, Aleksandra Tokarz, Anna Wardzichowska   +2 more
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Acute aerobic exercise and attentional focus influence the self-positivity bias in emotional evaluation. Evidence from an experimental study

Open Psychology, 2022
The influence of aerobic exercise, as a possibly mood-enhancing experience, was investigated for its effect on emotional evaluation of self- vs. other-related emotional (e.g., my/his joy) or neutral (e.g., my/his notes) stimuli.
Meixner Friedrich, Herbert Cornelia
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Can motto-goals outperform learning and performance goals? Influence of goal setting on performance and affect in a complex problem solving task

Journal of Dynamic Decision Making, 2016
In this paper, we bring together research on complex problem solving with that on motivational psychology about goal setting. Complex problems require motivational effort because of their inherent difficulties.
Miriam Sophia Rohe, Joachim Funke, Maja Storch, Julia Weber   +3 more
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Role of Perceived Competence and Task Interest in Learning From Negative Feedback

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the interactive effects of perceived competence and task interest on the cognitive and affective responses to negative feedback.
Dajung Daine Shin, Sung-il Kim, Myung-Jin Lee, Yi Jiang, Mimi Bong   +4 more
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Socio-economic status and trajectories of a novel multidimensional metric of Active and Healthy Ageing: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Scientific Reports, 2023
Healthy ageing research largely has a unidimensional focus on physical health, negating the importance of psychosocial factors in the maintenance of a good quality-of-life. In this cohort study, we aimed to identify trajectories of a new multidimensional
Olivia S. Malkowski, Ricky Kanabar, Max J. Western   +2 more
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Decoding of Processing Preferences from Language Paradigms by Means of EEG-ERP Methodology: Risk Markers of Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression and Protective Indicators of Well-Being? Cerebral Correlates and Mechanisms

Applied Sciences, 2022
Depression is a frequent mental affective disorder. Cognitive vulnerability models propose two major cognitive risk factors that favor the onset and severity of depressive symptoms.
Cornelia Herbert
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The Seed of Goal-Related Doubts: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Roles of Failure and Expectation of Success Among Police Trainee Applicants

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Various theories on personal goal striving rely on the assumption that failure raises doubts about the goal. Yet, empirical evidence for an association between objective failure experiences and doubts about personal long-term goals is still missing. In a
Martin Bettschart, Marcel Herrmann, Marcel Herrmann, Benjamin M. Wolf, Veronika Brandstätter   +4 more
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Computational fingerprinting: a new approach to motivation deficit in neuropsychiatric diseases

Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2021
Motivation can be defined as a function that activates and directs the behavior toward goals. In neuropsychiatric conditions, motivation deficits such as apathy are frequent and interfere with treatment observance and clinical outcome.
Pessiglione, Mathias
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The systematic development of guidance for parents on talking to children of primary school age about weight

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children is increasing, alongside increases in rates of children’s anxiety and worry about their weight.
Fiona B. Gillison, Elisabeth B. Grey, Fran Baber, Angel Chater, Lou Atkinson, Alison Gahagan   +5 more
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Motivation

Theoria, 2009
Abstract This chapter develops a scheme for the explanation of rational action. It start from a scheme that may be attributed to Thomas Nagel in The Possibility of Altruism, and develop it step by step to arrive at a sharper and more accurate scheme. The development includes a progressive refinement of the notion of motivation.
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