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Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance,
, 1976
"... A model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs. The model focuses on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motiv ..."
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motivated work behavior to develop; (b) the characteristics of jobs that can create these psychological states; and (c) the attributes of individuals that determine how positively a person will respond to a complex and challenging job. The model was tested for 658 employees who work on 62 different jobs
The work preference inventory: Assessing intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Journal of Applied Psychology
, 1994
"... The Work Preference Inventory (WPI) is designed to assess individual differences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Both the college student and the working adult versions aim to capture the major elements of intrinsic motivation (self-determination, competence, task involve-ment, ..."
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, adequate internal consistency, good short-term test-retest reliability, and good longer term stability. Moreover, WPI scores are related in meaningful ways to other questionnaire and behavioral measures of motivation, as well as personality characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors. Some people seem
Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
, 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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that this relationship applies to the dropout situation as well. Not only is the motivational model theoretically sound, it is also in line with the high school dropout literature. First, with respect to the social context, dropout students, relative to persistent students, report that they participate much less
The short-form version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21): Constructive validity and normative data in a large non-clinical
"... Objectives. To test the construct validity of the short-form version of the Depression anxiety and stress scale (DASS-21), and in particular, to assess whether stress as indexed by this measure is synonymous with negative affectivity (NA) or whether it represents a related, but distinct, construct. ..."
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Objectives. To test the construct validity of the short-form version of the Depression anxiety and stress scale (DASS-21), and in particular, to assess whether stress as indexed by this measure is synonymous with negative affectivity (NA) or whether it represents a related, but distinct, construct
Severity of spatial learning impairment in aging: development of a learning index for performance in the Morris water maze.
- Behav Neurosci
, 1993
"... The Morris water maze task was originally designed to assess the rat's ability to learn to navigate to a specific location in a relatively large spatial environment. This article describes new measures that provide information about the spatial distribution of the rat's search during both ..."
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-Evans rats. Also described is the development of a learning index that provides a continuous, graded measure of the severity of age-related impairment in the task. An index of this type should be useful in correlational analyses with other neurobiological or behavioral measures for the study of individual
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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instrumental tool of management of new forms of life, including the building of on-line communities of support and collective learning. I see, however, a much stronger connection between networks and relationships of experience through the cultural transformations induced by communication networks
On-line New Event Detection and Tracking in a Multi-Resource Environment
, 2001
"... ON-LINE NEW EVENT DETECTION AND TRACKING IN A MULTI-RESOURCE ENVIRONMENT M.S. in Computer Engineering Supervisor: Prof. Dr. H. Altay Guvenir September, 2001 As the amount of electronically available information resources increase, the need for information also increases. Today, it is almost imp ..."
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than one event. For this reason, the tracking system can relate a news story to more than one event. The on-line new event detection and tracking system has been tested on the Reuters news feed, available on the Internet. The Reuters news feed, that we used, comprises four independent ...
Self-concordance at work: Toward understanding the motivational effects of transformational leaders.
- Academy of Management Journal,
, 2003
"... We extend existing theories by linking transformational leadership to "self-concordance" at work. In two studies using diverse samples and methods, leader behaviors were associated with follower tendencies to set self-concordant goals. In general, followers of transformational leaders vie ..."
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theories regarding the motivational effects of charismatic leaders, it received only limited support in a recent empirical test The present investigation was designed to extend the self-concept-based theory by linking some elements of the theory with the self-concordance model, a motivational theory
External validity of ‘‘trivial’’ experiments: The case of laboratory aggression.
- Review of General Psychology,
, 1997
"... The external validity of artificial "trivial" laboratory settings is examined. Past views emphasizing generalizability of relations among conceptual variables are reviewed and affirmed. One major implication of typical challenges to the external validity of laboratory research is tested w ..."
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The external validity of artificial "trivial" laboratory settings is examined. Past views emphasizing generalizability of relations among conceptual variables are reviewed and affirmed. One major implication of typical challenges to the external validity of laboratory research is tested
Party over Policy: The Dominating Impact of Group Influence
- on Political Beliefs.’’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 2003
"... Four studies demonstrated both the power of group influence in persuasion and people's blindness to it. Even under conditions of effortful processing, attitudes toward a social policy depended almost exclusively upon the stated position of one's political party. This effect overwhelmed th ..."
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much they had been influenced by the position of their party. Study 1 Liberal and conservative college students were presented with one of two versions of a welfare policy. One version provided generous benefits, whereas the other version provided stringent benefits. Informal pilot testing confirmed
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