Motivation and the Goal Theory of Current Concerns

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-47

  Klinger, Eric ^a   Cox, W Miles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic concepts and theories motivation and goal theory of current concerns; Behavior and experience organized around pursuit and enjoyment of goals; Centrality of brain and mind motivation motivational processes, in works of Antonio and Hanna Damasio and colleagues; Field of motivational research distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; Goal pursuits, intertwined with emotions crucial roles in choosing goals; Goal pursuits, varying and whether a goal being an approach or avoidance goal, time frame for action; Goals and cognitions, influences operating two way street, goal related cognitions into goal pursuits; Motivational states versus motivational traits distinctions, keeping motivation in mind; Motivational structure (pattern of goal striving) sense of one's life being meaningful, and self regulation; Processes, driving goal striving collectively called motivation, in psychology

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EID: 84886189275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979952.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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