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The aim of this study is to investigate existent relationships between schoolchildren performance and the psychological variables self-efficacy and motivation. The research included 141 schoolchildren ranging from 8 to 11 years old in second, third, and fourth grade primary schoo...

We have shown before that grasping movements from a given starting position to a given object differ substantially when performed as a typical laboratory task (L) and when they are embedded in an everyday-like context (E). The present study investigates whether this context-depen...

Motivation underpins successful tennis performance, representing one of the game's foremost psychological skills. This paper elaborates on its role in tennis play, and takes an overview of the current state of motivation research applied to tennis. First, the importance of motiva...

This work, shaped in juridical methodology, critically reflects on the problem of motivation of civil judgment as an element of organization and functioning of the Democratic Constitutional State of Law. Motivation is an essential condition of jurisdiction, in the sense that with...

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: One of the factors known to influence performance in the learning process is student motivation. In turn, students’ motivation can be regulated by a large number of variables relating to the individual (such as sex, age and socioeconomic status) or to aspec...

Autonomous motivation has been associated with better academic outcomes such as cognitive engagement in classroom tasks when compared with controlled motivation. The aim of this study was to identify relationships between adolescent students motivational profiles to carry out mat...

Some authors have suggested that learning tasks conducted in L2 classes can motivate learners in different ways. Similarly, Interactive Whiteboards (IWB) have already been linked as drivers to engagement and enthusiasm in L2 classes, which may cause some impact on affective varia...

The present study aims at approaching motivation as one of the most important instruments of control of the administrative procedure, whose foundations are a result of the Democratic Rule-of-Law State and other constitutional principles of the Public Administration. For this purp...

Achievement testing in English as a foreign language has reflected educational problems in Brazil , such as the lack of students involvement, low achievement and demotivation. Our aim in this research is to approach the interrelation between assessment and motivation to learn EFL...

The present research had the objective of investigating the existence of possible relationships between the motivational orientations and the academic achievement of elementary students, as well as investigating whether or not different levels of academic development are tied to ...

In this work we have studied the motivation of Brazilian students in classes of Spanish as a foreign language, in formal learning contexts. We assume that student motivation is a complex construct which involves factors of various contexts (personal, family, scholastic, social et...

The work investigates the various approaches to the issue of motivation, and in this context observes and questions the idea of School Motivation that emphasizes the role of tasks, turning the completion of the latter into the motivation to carry out the activities required by th...

This work analyses the factors that could influences the Chemistry learning. The motivation is considered a fundamental construct for the scholar learning. The motivation is related to internal or external causes that lead an individual to accomplish or not an activity. Those int...

By generating direct implications on the quality of the student’s development with education, motivation has been being widely discussed into the academic context. The present paper has investigated the motivation of higher education students and the factors related to it. Among ...

Maslow's theory is by far the most known theory of motivation, and the most common in the business and management practice. Herzberg's theory fits the observations and explains some aspects of human motivation left unexplained by Maslow. However, these theories have never been fo...

The objective of this paper was to evaluate if the established goals developed for the future by the students of the Pedagogy Course, from a public university of the north of Paraná, influenced the valorization and the involvement in the activities demanded in the course and the ...

This dissertation had as object of investigation the motivation of the collaborators and their influence in people management, delimitated to the scene of small services companies in São Paulo city. The analysis units were the companies Ambienty and Z500. The phenomenological met...

ABSTRACT Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the motivation of collaborators based on the Maslow pyramid, in order to have an approach to the subject of motivation in family micro-businesses, such as cybercafé, where business is income from computer systems and the ...

The choice of topic "motivation and commitment" resulted from the fact that there is a lack of empirical studies linking motivation and organizational commitment. Based on the model of multidimensional conceptualization of motivation of Gagné et al. (2010), postulated the theory ...

The choice of topic "motivation and commitment" resulted from the fact that there is a lack of empirical studies linking motivation and organizational commitment. Based on the model of multidimensional conceptualization of motivation of Gagné et al. (2010), postulated the theory ...

This research is about motivation to learn music. Its general aim was to investigate the interaction between individual and environmental factors which motivate students to continue their studies in music outside school. According to literature, individual factors refer to studen...