Advances in motivation science volume 4 edited by Andrew J. Elliot

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elliot, Andrew J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motivation (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages) illustrations.

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts Academic Press 2017

Summary:

Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Four is the latest in Elsevier's brand new serial on the topic of motivation science. For this release, users will find comprehensive chapters on a variety of topics, including Self-regulatory functions supporting motivated action, Motivating personality: Approach, avoidance, and their conflict, Incentives and pay for performance in the workplace, Culture and motivation: A socio-ecological approach, The evolving understanding of physical activity behavior: A multi-process action control approach, and a chapter on Motivated emotion regulation: Principles, lessons, and implications of a motivational analysis of emotion regulation.The advent of the cognitive revolution in the 1960 and 70s eclipsed the emphasis on motivation to a large extent, but in the past two decades motivation has returned en force. Today, motivational analyses of affect, cognition, and behavior are ubiquitous across psychological literatures and disciplines. This series brings together internationally recognized experts who focus on cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions in this important area of psychology.- Presents a brand new serial on the field of motivation science and research- Provides a timely overview of important research programs conducted by the most respected scholars in psychology- Gives special attention to directions for future research

Contents:

Front Cover

Advances in Motivation Science

Copyright

Contents

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

One - Self-Regulatory Functions Supporting Motivated Action

1. GOALS AND SELF-REGULATION

1.1 Feedback Processes and Self-Regulation

1.2 Generalized Approach and Avoidance

1.3 Hierarchical Organization

2. EMOTION

2.1 Interface Between Affect and Action

2.2 Role of Emotions in Priority Management

3. CONFIDENCE AND DOUBT: ENHANCED EFFORT, SCALING BACK, AND GIVING UP

3.1 Other Influences on Current Confidence

3.2 Efforts and Giving Up

3.3 Disengagement as Adaptive

3.4 Self-Regulation and Stress

3.5 Level of Generality of Expectancies

4. IMPULSE AND CONSTRAINT

4.1 Dual Process Models

4.2 Dual Process Models and Hierarchical Organization of Behavior

4.3 Serotonergic Function and Dual Process Models

4.4 Depression and Serotonergic Function

4.5 Transdiagnostic Vulnerability

5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

5.1 Future Directions

REFERENCES

Two - Motivating Personality: Approach, Avoidance, and Their Conflict

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BASIC ISSUES

2.1 Approach/Avoidance Motivation

2.2 The Nature of Goal Representation

2.3 Reinforcement as Taxes

2.4 Drives

2.5 Motivational State: E Pluribus unum

3. REINFORCEMENT SENSITIVITY THEORY

3.1 RST and Motivation

3.2 Repulsors, Attractors, and Their Interactions

4. DELINEATION OF RST SYSTEMS

4.1 Behavioral Approach System and FFFS

4.2 Behavioral Inhibition System

4.3 Separable and Joint Subsystems

5. CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS (DIS)CONTENTS

6. RST MEASUREMENT MODELS AND INSTRUMENTS

6.1 Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality Questionnaire

6.2 Multidimensionality of the Behavioral Approach System

6.3 "Defensive" Fight

6.4 Defensive Human Scenarios.

6.5 RST and Biological Anchors

6.6 RST and the Big-5 Personality Traits

6.6.1 Openness to Experience

6.6.2 Conscientiousness

6.6.3 Agreeableness

7. THE MOTIVATING PERSONALITY RESEARCH AGENDA

7.1 BAS Processes

7.2 Motivation, Personality, and Gambling

8. CONCLUSIONS

Three - Incentives and Pay for Performance in the Workplace

2. THE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS OF HOW INCENTIVE PAY IS DEFINED

3. PFP IN THE BROADER COMPENSATION AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT CONTEXT

4. ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PFP

4.1 Economics: A Focus on Pay (Level) and the Disutility of Work

4.2 Pay Level: Only Part of the Story-Shifting the Focus to PFP

4.2.1 What Is a Strategic Compensation Decision?

4.2.2 PFP Strategy: What Organizations Say and What They Do

4.2.3 How Much Versus How You Pay

4.3 Psychology: A Focus on Cognitive Mechanisms and Concerns With the Use of Monetary Incentives

4.3.1 PFP and Incentives as Irrelevant or Harmful

4.3.2 Example: Cognitive Evaluation Theory

4.3.3 Crowding Out Theory: CET's Influence Extends to Economics

5. THE IMPORTANCE OF MONEY AND PFP IN THE WORKPLACE

5.1 Employees and the (Unique) Importance of Pay to Them

5.2 Monetary Rewards Are the Norm in the Workplace

5.3 Research Evidence on Pay Importance to Employees

6. USE OF INCENTIVES AND PFP IN THE WORKPLACE

6.1 The Value of Use and Adoption Data on PFP

6.2 Use and Adoption of PFP

6.2.1 Merit Pay

6.2.2 Merit Pay Effects via Promotion

6.2.3 Merit Pay and Related PFP: Magnitude (or How Much PFP Is There?)

6.2.4 Variable Pay: Short-Term and Long-Term Incentives

7. EFFECTS OF PFP

7.1 Incentive Effects

7.2 Sorting Effects

7.2.1 Some Implications of Nonrandom Assignment (Sorting)

7.3 Effects of PFP in Higher Level Jobs

7.4 Merit Pay.

7.5 Variable Pay Plans at the Group/Organization Level

8. RISK AND PITFALLS OF PFP

9. CONCLUSION

Four - Culture and Motivation: A Socio-Ecological Approach

1. CULTURE AND MOTIVATION: A HISTORICAL SURVEY

2. A SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL APPROACH

3. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF A SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL APPROACH

4. FUTURE DIRECTIONS

5. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Five - The Evolving Understanding of Physical Activity Behavior: A Multi-Process Action Control Approacha

2. OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN UNDERSTANDING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

2.1 Intention: A Process or the Penultimate Construct in Behavior Change?

2.2 Instrumental Versus Affective Judgments

2.3 Perceived Capability Versus Perceived Opportunity

2.4 Volitional Self-Regulation Versus Intention

2.5 Reflective Versus Reflexive Antecedents of Physical Activity

2.5.1 Habit

2.5.2 Identity

3. BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: A MULTI-PROCESS ACTION CONTROL SCHEMATIC

3.1 Structural Relationships Among Constructs in the Schematic

3.2 Intervening on Constructs in the Multi-process Action Control Schematic

3.3 Measuring the Constructs in the Multi-Process Action Control Schematic

3.4 Future Directions

4. SUMMARY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Six - Motivated Emotion Regulation: Principles, Lessons, and Implications of a Motivational Analysis of Emotion Reg ...

2. PROCESS AND CONTENT IN EMOTION REGULATION

3. MOTIVATED EMOTION REGULATION: KEY TERMS AND ASSUMPTIONS

3.1 A Hierarchical Organization of Desired Outcomes

3.2 Motives and Goals in Emotion Regulation: Definitions and Measures

3.2.1 Emotion Goals

3.2.2 Motives in Emotion Regulation

3.3 Summary

4. MOTIVES IN EMOTION REGULATION

4.1 Hedonic Motives

4.2 Instrumental Motives

4.2.1 Performance Motives.

4.2.2 Social Motives

4.2.3 Epistemic Motives

4.2.4 Eudaimonic Motives

4.3 Summary

5. FROM MOTIVES TO EMOTION GOALS

5.1 Is There an Association Between an Emotion Goal and a Motive?

5.2 How Strong is an Association Between an Emotion Goal and a Motive?

5.3 Are There Conflicting Motives or Competing Emotion Goals?

6. FROM EMOTION GOALS TO EMOTION REGULATION STRATEGIES

7. IMPLICATIONS OF MOTIVATED EMOTION REGULATION

7.1 Implications for Emotional Experiences and Behavior

7.2 Social Implications

7.2.1 Social Implications of Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation

7.2.2 Social Implications of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation

7.3 Clinical Implications

7.3.1 Emotion Goals in Depression

7.3.2 Emotion Goals in Bipolar Disorder

7.4 Implications for Well-Being and Adaptive Functioning

7.4.1 Pursuing Healthy Emotion Goals

7.4.2 The Healthy Pursuit of Emotion Goals

7.4.3 Summary

8. EXTENDING THE MOTIVATIONAL ANALYSIS OF EMOTION REGULATION

8.1 The Development of Emotion Goals

8.2 The Temporal Stages of Emotion Goal Pursuit

9. CONCLUSIONS

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2017).

ISBN:

0-12-812174-2

0-12-812123-8