In the last two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has
emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators
of behaviour, in contrast to more general traits or motives. This
'social-cognitive' approach grants goal-oriented motivation its own
role in shaping cognition, emotion and behaviour, rather than
reducing goal-directed behaviour to cold-blooded information
processing or to an enactment of a personality type. This book adds
to this process-oriented approach a developmental perspective.
Critical elements of motivational systems can be specified and
their inter-relations understood by charting the origins and the
developmental course of motivational processes. Moreover, a
process-oriented approach helps to identify critical transitions
and effective developmental interventions. The chapters in this
book cover various age groups throughout the life span and stem
from four big traditions in motivational psychology: achievement
motivation, action theory, the psychology of causal attribution and
perceived control, and the psychology of personal causation and
intrinsic motivation.
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