Basic Motivation and Human Behaviour : Control, Affiliation and Self-expression / by Velibor Bobo Kovac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kovac, Velibor Bobo, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive psychology.

Personality.

Difference (Psychology).

Emotions.

Cognitive Psychology.

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Emotion.

Local Subjects:

Cognitive Psychology.

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Emotion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (V, 249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

This book explores how and why humans are motivated to act in the ways that they do. The chapters examine the origins of a given action rather than their superficial appearance, which can often be misleading. Kovac integrates the existing knowledge of the field of motivation into a greater theoretical framework by adopting both analytical and holistic perspectives. This theoretical framework suggests that all human behaviour evolves from the three fundamental underlying tendencies connected to the concepts of control, affiliation and self-expression that are further modified by the mechanism of balanced dual tension. These tendencies are conceptualised as systems of interrelated psychological needs that guide and govern a variety of human actions. As such, this book should be useful to upper-level students and researchers of cognitive and social psychology and all scholars interested in human motivation. .

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Historical and Contemporary Background

Chapter 3. Control Motivational System

Chapter 4. Affiliation Motivational System

Chapter 5. The Self-expression Motivational System

Chapter 6. The Mechanisms of Control, Affiliation and Self-expression

Chapter 7. Critical Theoretical Concerns

Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781137470560

1137470569