Measuring Motivation: The Motivational Structure Questionnaire and Personal Concerns Inventory and their Variants

Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention with Addiction and Other Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 159-204

  Cox, W Miles ^a   Klinger, Eric ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approaches to measuring motivation research area of motivation and goal pursuit; Assessment and relationships to behavior measuring motivation, motivational structure questionnaire; Idiographic part of assessment asking respondents to read list of life areas on Answer Sheets; Idiothetic instruments Motivational Structure Questionnaire (MSQ) and Personal Concerns Inventory (PCI); Major life areas in Step 1 of Motivational Structure Questionnaire; Motivational construct corresponding to underlying brain processes; Motivational structure questionnaire (MSQ) instruction booklet, action word list and answer sheets; Personal aspirations and concerns inventory two contrasting profiles from computerized PCI; Role and commitment, role scale (Step 3) respondents, choosing one of six options; Two classes, measures of motivation picture story exercises (PSE) and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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EID: 84886160791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979952.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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