Extrinsic motivation is motivation that come from outside oneself. Examples include doing something for financial gain, promotion, praise or approval, or to win a competition. Depending on the ...

It's not how smart students are but how motivated they are and how they study that determines their growth in math achievement. That's the main finding of a study that looks at six annual waves of ...

*** This article is part of a series on burnout. To learn how Implicit Motivation impacts burnout, see Burned out? Frustrated unconscious motives may be at fault In our highly success-oriented society ...

To assess if the correlations with the DA measures were specific for the surrogate trait measure of motivation, we also inspected correlations with the broad trait measures of Positive Emotionality ...

The Journal of Experimental Education, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Spring, 1993), pp. 257-267 (11 pages) In Experiment 1, college undergraduates were given three tests measuring state, trait, and text anxiety.

*** This article is part of a series on burnout. To learn how Implicit Motivation impacts burnout, see Burned out? Frustrated unconscious motives may be at fault In our highly success-oriented society ...