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Curran, Thomas. "Psychosocial mechanisms underpinning motivation in youth sports participants." Thesis, York St John University College, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6511/.
Full textLandreth, Anthony. "Far beyond driven on the neural mechanisms of motivation /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1196094476.
Full textAdvisor: John W. Bickle. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Feb. 6, 2008). Keywords: motivation, dopamine, learning, neuroscience, neural networks, action theory, desire, intention, planning, emotion, pleasure, representation, psychosemantics. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
McConville, J. R. "Brain Mechanisms Associated with Motivation in Amphibians and Fish." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501325.
Full textLANDRETH, ANTHONY WILLIAM. "FAR BEYOND DRIVEN: ON THE NEURAL MECHANISMS OF MOTIVATION." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1196094476.
Full textDe, Nadai Alessandro S. "Psychosocial Mechanisms of Outcome in Pediatric Psychiatry." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6826.
Full textScholl, Jacqueline. "Motivation and reward learning : neural mechanisms, changes in depression and following pharmacological treatment." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fac5019f-f12c-4325-a11d-11bdac0da290.
Full textChan, Melissa. "The role of strategic motivation, organisational behaviour and social mechanisms in collaborative contracts." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207442/1/Melissa_Chan_Thesis.pdf.
Full textNaidoo, Loren J. "EFFECTS OF LEADERS ON FOLLOWER GOAL STRIVING PROCESSES: COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL SENSEMAKING MECHANISMS." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1125352291.
Full text"December, 2005." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 08/31/2006) Advisor, Robert G. Lord; Committee members, Steven R. Ash, Rosalie J. Hall, Paul E. Levy, Aaron M. Schmidt; Department Chair, Paul E. Levy; Dean of the College, Charles B. Monroe; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
Al-Adawi, Samir Hamed Nasser. "The neuropsychopharmacology of motivation : an examination of reward and frontal-subcortical mechanisms and functions." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286323.
Full textMuhammed, Kinan. "Mechanisms underlying apathy in health and Parkinson's disease." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:930d41d1-c815-4494-8c32-1439947db899.
Full textRose, Timothy M. "The impact of financial incentive mechanisms on motivation in Australian government large non-residential building projects." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16680/1/Timothy_Michael_Rose_Thesis.pdf.
Full textRose, Timothy M. "The impact of financial incentive mechanisms on motivation in Australian government large non-residential building projects." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16680/.
Full textLee, Jerin, Edward C. Chang, Abigael G. Lucas, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Academic Motivation and Psychological Needs as Predictors of Suicidal Risk." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocc.12123.
Full textJ, Martin Andrew. "Self-handicapping and defensive pessimism : predictors and consequences from a self-worth motivation perspective /." [Campbelltown, N.S.W.] : University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, Faculty of Education, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030714.120839/index.html.
Full textБугаєнко, Д. В. "Мотивація персоналу на підприємстві." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/44155.
Full textFerron, Joëlle C. Strom-Gottfried Kim. "Psychological mechanisms to treatment adherence among people with severe mental illness validating treatment motivation and working alliance measures /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1473.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Social Work." Discipline: Social Work; Department/School: Social Work.
Narayanaswami, Vidya. "DIET-INDUCED OBESITY: DOPAMINERGIC AND BEHAVIORAL MECHANISMS AS OUTCOMES AND PREDICTORS." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/pharmacy_etds/12.
Full textGregoire, Michaël. "Exploration du signifiant lexical espagnol : Structures, mécanismes, manipulations, potentialités." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040186.
Full textThis thesis represents an attempt of rationalization of the Spanish lexicon giving priority to the signifier. Inspired in particular by Pierre Guiraud, we have established in the wake of Maurice Molho, Didier Bottineau, Georges Bohas or Dennis Philps, that the words can refer by the request of a portion of their shape, detectable structurally. We considered all the qualitative capacities (phones, submorphems, graphemes, segments) and quantitative (duplications, repetitions, reversals, homophonies / homographies) forms of words. We did not thus limited to a particular semiological support but conceived the lexicon, because of its complexity, as an organism of signifiers / signifieds where every element can be important to give rise to a motivation (internal or external). We named this element salience, because it is about a unity which results from a focus, from a formal choice to refer any particular idea. We also noted, especially in cases of "disambiguation", which many parties could be sought and each allowed to refer to a distinct meaning. The consubstantiality of the sign is thus, of our point of view, a pertinent principle. The "synonymy" as well as the "polysemy" are not therefore either relevant notions because every term sends back in a way which is appropriate for its to a given meaning. Finally, we proposed an application, with similar criteria, in "poetics" utterances where several unusual actualizations appear but always permitted by the language, the signifier
Aktan, Timucin. "Compensatory Nature Of Mixed Stereotypes: An Investigation Of Underlying Mechanisms In The Framework Of Stereotype Content Model." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614349/index.pdf.
Full textcompensation tendency. Two studies were conducted to examine the compensation tendency in the framework of System Justification Theory. In the first study (Study 5), presentation order of the target groups was manipulated. By this way, participants were not aware of the second group. Findings indicated that participants tended to compensate their first ratings toward homemakers and businesswomen. Furthermore, ambivalent sexism moderated the compensation tendency. In the second study (Study 6), both groups were presented together. Neither order of presentation nor its interactions were significant. Findings of the studies were discussed in the light of relevant literature.
Pfeiffer, Ulrich Verfasser], Gary [Akademischer Betreuer] [Bente, and Kai [Akademischer Betreuer] Vogeley. "From Participation to Motivation: Investigating the Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Gaze-Based Social Interactions / Ulrich Pfeiffer. Gutachter: Gary Bente ; Kai Vogeley." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1038486157/34.
Full textMousavizadeh, Kashipaz Seyed Mohammadreza. "Three Research Essays on Online Users' Concerns and Web Assurance Mechanisms." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862772/.
Full textKlawonn, Anna. "Molecular Mechanisms of Reward and Aversion." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Centrum för social och affektiv neurovetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143459.
Full textKim, Jungbu. "Do Different Expenditure Mechanisms Invite Different Influences? Evidence from Research Expenditures of the National Institutes of Health." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-07022007-131256/.
Full textKatherine Willoughby, Committee Member ; Juan Rogers, Committee Member ; John Clayton Thomas, Committee Member ; Gregory B. Lewis, Committee Member ; Robert J. Eger, III, Committee Chair.
Drazdowski, Tess K. "A Longitudinal Study of the Motivations for the Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs in a National Sample of Young Adults." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4124.
Full textFerreira, José Henrique Benedetti Piccoli. "Sistema integrado de alocação de esforços: tomada de decisão frente à instabilidade ambiental e sinais reprodutivos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47132/tde-28062013-160925/.
Full textThe present study aims to investigate the integration of the motivational system with the system of adaptations responsible for defining the strategy of life history (LH) of an organism. The LH strategy regulates how an organism allocates its energy, time and resources throughout its life, influencing the ontogenetic development process and every days decision making. Due to the close relationship with the decision-making process, the motivational systems would have co-evolved with the LH strategies, making the decision-making process more efficient, generating adaptive responses. This thesis consists of three studies, that investigates, through an experimental structure, the sensitivity of our motivational system to evolutionarily relevant environmental cues and the consequent establishment of patterns of responses consistent with the predictions of LH evolutionary theory. It also attemps to investigate how individual and environmental characteristics can influence the sensitivity to stimuli. The sensitivity to stimuli was assessed by impulsivity measuring instruments through choices between short or long term rewards (future discounting), or between the possibility to keep the reward or to give it to someone else (social discounting). In Study 1, we investigated how environmental instability cues, such as photos or news about natural disasters, or news about economic crisis, influence decision making in future discounting choices. We observed that people are sensitive to environmental instability conditions and adaptively respond to the stimulus by becoming more impulsive. The socioeconomic status influenced the stimuli sensitivity. In Study 2, we investigated how reproductive cues, such as photos of sexy people, of attractive people, of parents taking care of their children and babies, influence decision making in future discounting choices. Men and women were sensitive to sexy stimuli of the opposite sex, becoming more impulsive, but only women had this response looking pictures of attractive men. Parenting photos led women to an impulsivity reduction. The tendency of individuals to engage in short or long term romantic relationships and the perception of partner availability in the environment changed the sexual stimuli sensitivity. In Study 3 we investigated how environmental instability cues influence the decision making in social discounting choices. People were sensitive to stimuli, presenting selfish and altruistic behaviors depending on the context they faced. The childhood environment conditions and the way individuals form emotional bonds, influenced the stimuli sensitivity. The sensitivity to different stimuli, leading to adaptive responses, as predicted by evolutionary theories, give us indicatives of the interaction process and possible integration between motivational systems and adaptations systems responsible for defining LH strategy
Wang, Jiaoli (Lily), and Xiaodong (Jack) Jiang. "Motivation Mechanism for Chinese Public Departments." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3454.
Full textProblems: The problem is that there is a lack of an academically reliable motivation theory originating from public organizations. However, there are motivation theories that have been tested on a variety of organizations. The fact that many public organizations have performance problems indicates that there is a need for a motivation theory which is applicable to public organization.
Purpose: The prime practical purpose is to compare the perceived conditions within the Chinese civil servant system with western theories of what constitutes satisfying work conditions. A further purpose is to suggest normative hypotheses about how these theories might be used to increase work satisfaction in the Chinese civil servant organization.
Methodology: To test our suggested motivation mechanism we conducted a survey using questionnaire and interview. Our research area is Ningbo and our case is a Ningbo Personnel Department.
Conclusions: The research showed that the modified motivation theories could be used in the Chinese public departments and our created motivation mechanism could be used to improve the working efficiency in Chinese public departments at least in advanced areas.
Зайцев, Олександр Васильович, Александр Васильевич Зайцев, Oleksandr Vasylovych Zaitsev, Дмитро Васильович Нікітін, Дмитрий Васильевич Никитин, and Dmitro Vasylovych Nikitin. "Modell des motivations mechanismus der dematerialisierung." Thesis, Leipzig University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/48922.
Full textВ доповіді обгрунтовується необхідність пошуку оціночних моделей і механізмів, що здійснювали б зв’язок із загальнодержавними та ринковими інститутами. Доцільним є розроблення мотиваційних механізмів дематеріалізаційних змін на рівні суб’єктів господарювання, які пов’язують мотивацію на мікрорівні з мотивацією на рівні національної економіки і забезпечують цільові трансформаційні зміни.
В докладе обосновывается необходимость поиска оценочных моделей и механизмов, которые осуществляли бы связь с общегосударственными и рыночными институтами. Целесообразным является разработка мотивационных механизмов дематериализационных изменений на уровне субъектов хозяйствования, которые связывают мотивацию на микроуровне с мотивацией на уровне национальной экономики и обеспечивают целевые трансформационные изменения.
The report is substantiated the need to find mechanisms and assessment models, which would liaise with national and market institutions. It is expedient to develop motivational mechanisms dematerialization changes in the level of economic entities that link the motivation at the micro level with motivation at the level of the national economy and provide targeted transformational change.
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Vareilles, Gaëlle. "Comprendre la performance des volontaires de santé communautaire : une évaluation réaliste en lien avec la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix Rouge et du Croissant Rouge." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016REN1G036/document.
Full textContext The recruitment of community health volunteers, such as the volunteers of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, is an established approach to improve the health of underserved communities. However, there is a dearth of evidence about what works to improve volunteers’ performance. Objectives To understand why, how, for which volunteers and under which circumstances intervention approaches to improve volunteers’ performance is more likely to be successful. Methods Given the complexity of the intervention under study, a realist evaluation as methodological approach and a case study as study design was adopted. Firstly, a realist review together with interviews with the main stakeholders and a review of the theories underlying community health volunteers programme have been conducted to develop the theoretical basis for the evaluation. Secondly for the case study, two contrasted cases have been then selected at district level in the capital of Uganda, where the Red Cross Society is implementing a community-based programme. A case is as a Red Cross unit run by a programme manager that operate around one governmental district structures. Data collection included document review, participant observation and interviews. The constant comparative method was used for the analysis. Results Intervention approaches that include supervision supportive of autonomy, skills and knowledge enhancement and that is adapted to the different sub-groups of volunteers, leads to satisfaction of the three key drivers of volunteer motivation: feelings of autonomy, of competence and of connectedness. This contributes to volunteers’ better performance. Enabling contextual conditions include the responsiveness of the organisation to community needs and recognition from the organisation and the community of the work of the volunteers. Discussion The findings will inform the management of community health volunteers and have implication for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies regrading organisational learning. It also contributed to building the field of programme evaluation in Health and led to methodological developments for doing realist evaluation
Bao, Yuanjie. "Understanding the motivational mechanisms of value congruence." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/84179.
Full textAntecedentes: A pesar de la importancia ofrecida en la literatura, el concepto de congruencia de valores es aún poco conocido. La literatura es ambigua y el tema es aún poco conocido. La congruencia de valores se trata en las áreas de gestión y psicología relacionándola con diversas actitudes hacia el trabajo o hacia los resultados empresariales. No obstante, el proceso que afecta a estos resultados sigue siendo muy polémico. Es decir, no sabemos exactamente por qué la congruencia de valores produce efectos en los resultados empresariales. Pregunta de investigación: Esta tesis intenta explicar el efecto de la congruencia de valores. Es decir, cuál es la correlación o relación semicausal entre la congruencia o incongruencia de valores y determinadas actitudes laborales tales como la satisfacción laboral, compromiso organizacional, por un lado, y de salud, tales como el estrés laboral o la salud física, por el otro. Enfoque teórico: Reconociendo el hecho de que las explicaciones actuales sobre los efectos de la congruencia de los valores son especulativas, fragmentadas y de carácter social, en esta tesis se utiliza la teoría basada en el autoconcepto como teoría subyacente para comprobar empíricamente el mecanismo de mediación de las variables de autoconcepto en la relación entre la congruencia de valores y los resultados empresariales. Se afirma que este mecanismo individual es similar a los efectos de mediación de los mecanismos sociales tales como la confianza. Diseño: En esta tesis se utiliza el enfoque de tres papers relacionados. En el primero de ellos se hace una revisión de la literatura existente sobre congruencia de valores y contextualiza la investigación desde un marco global. El segundo paper utiliza la teoría del autoconcepto para explicar los efectos de la congruencia de valores en los resultados laborales relacionados con la actitud, tales como salud mental (burnout) y una serie de resultados relacionados organizativamente como la propensión de accidentes y de las intenciones de rotar. Los datos fueron recogidos entre las enfermeras que trabajan en un gran hospital universitario en Cataluña. El tercer paper utiliza algunas de las variables derivadas de la teoría del auto-concepto para probar empíricamente la importancia relativa y la configuración de mecanismos individuales y mecanismos sociales como mediadores entre la congruencia de valores y una serie de resultados específicos individuales, como la satisfacción en el trabajo, el compromiso con la organización y el agotamiento. Este tercer estudio se llevó a cabo en un hospital del noreste de China. Resultados: El primer paper establece las bases para futuros estudios especificando las necesidades y las limitaciones de trabajos previos. En los dos estudios empíricos, se ha encontrado que la teoría del autoconcepto se puede aplicar en el contexto de la comprensión del proceso de efectos de la congruencia de los valores. En el segundo paper, se ha observado que, para diferentes tipos de valores, el agotamiento media de forma distinta entre los efectos de la incongruencia de valores en los resultados. En cuanto al tercer paper, se ha hallado que, para diferentes resultados, las variables del autoconcepto median entre los efectos de la congruencia de los valores de forma distinta, pero se ha constatado que la confianza en la organización es un mediador social consistente. Esto último refuerza el reciente interés en utilizar en mayor medida la construcción de la confianza en las investigaciones sobre organizaciones. Ello resultó ser válido en el contexto chino. Conclusión: Esta tesis sostiene que el estudio sobre la congruencia de valores es muy importante tanto para los individuos como para las organizaciones. A pesar de que sus efectos directos o de mediación, ello también afecta a resultados relacionados con la salud del individuo (es decir, agotamiento o la salud física), así como a resultados relacionados con la salud de la organización (el compromiso, la propensión de accidentes,, la previsión de volumen de negocio, y similares).
Background: Albeit the critical importance accorded in the literature to the concept of value congruence it is still poorly understood. The literature dealing with it is ambiguous and inconsistent. Value incongruence in the management and psychological disciplines, has been related to various job attitudes and other work related outcomes, but the process of which it affects the latter remains controversial. That is, we do not know exactly why value congruence (or value incongruence) is supposed to have these effects on the outcomes studied. Research question:This thesis is an attempt to understand the process of value congruence’s effect. That is to say: what are the correlational or semi causal relationships between value congruence and value incongruence on selected attitudinal outcomes such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment on one hand, and health outcomes, such as job burnout or physical health , on the other hand?. Theoretical approach:The underlying theory of “self-concept” has been used in its application to the construct of value congruence. More specifically, the mediating mechanism of self-concept variables on the relationship between value congruence and outcomes was empirically tested. Furthermore, the relative importance and the particular configuration of individualmechanism vssocial mechanism functioning simultaneously as mediatorshave been tested. . Design:This thesis uses three connected papers. The first paper is a comprehensive review of the literature on value congruence. Itintegrates value congruence research into a coherent framework.A clear agenda for research results from the conclusions reached in this first paper. The second paper inspired by the “self-concept theory”,tests the relationships between value congruence on specific outcomes such as mental health (burnout), physical health, and a host of organizationally related outcomes such as accident propensity and turnover intentions. Data was collected amongst nurses working in a large university hospital in Catalonia. The third paper also uses some variables derived from the self-concept theory to empirically test the relative importance and the particular configuration of individualmechanism and social mechanism functioning simultaneously as mediatorsbetween value congruence and a host of specific individual outcomes such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment and Burnout. This third study was carried out in a county hospital in northeast China. Method: The first paper is qualitative in nature. It synthesizes and classifies related definitions, models and measurement based on the literature. The second and the third papers are empirical studies based on cross-sectional pre validated surveys conducted in Spain and China in the health care settings. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses were employed throughout different phases of the studies. Multiple regressiontechnique was employed to test the mediation effect. Results:The first study sets up the agenda for future research in specifying needs and limitations of previous research. In the two empirical papers, it has been found that self-concept theory can serve for understanding the effects of value congruence. More specifically the second paper shows that for different types of value incongruence, burnout mediatesin a differential manner the effects on the outcomes studied. Third paper, found that, for different outcomes, self-concept variables mediates the effects of value congruence differentially, but trust in the organization, a specific variable that was added in this study, was a consistent social mediator. The latter reinforces recent call to further use the construct of trust in organizational research. This was found to be valid in the Chinese context. Conclusion: The thesis argues that studying value congruence can be very important to both individuals and organizations. Regardless of its direct or mediating effects, it impacts outcomes connected with individual health (i.e. Burnout or physical health) and also outcomes connected with organizational health (commitment, accident propensity, turnover intention, and alike). The thesis also shows how important it is to identify various linkages and configurations between value congruence and outcomes while borrowing from the self-concept theory.
Cléry-Melin, Galichon Marie-Laure. "Étude des fonctions neurocognitives dans la dépression : caractérisation de déficits motivationnels et cognitifs, évaluation de leur valeur pronostique Why don't you try harder? An investigation of effort production in major depression Neural mechanisms underlying motivation of mental versus physical effort Psychomotor retardation is a scar of past depressive episodes, revealed by simple cognitive tests Are cognitive deficits in major depressive disorder progressive? A simple attention test in the acute phase of a major depressive episode is predictive of later functional remission Progress in elucidating biomarkers of antidepressant pharmacological treatment response: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the last 15 years Stability of the diagnosis of seasonal affective disorder in a long-term prospective study." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB218.
Full textHese deficits coexist in the acute phase of a depressive episode and interfere with decision-making and goal-directed behaviors, and the associated feeling of effort. They appear to persist in periods of clinical remission, decreasing the quality of the therapeutic and functional response and lately worsening the prognosis of the disorder. The aim of this work is to identify objectively measurable neurocognitive markers in clinical practice, and to study their association with the prognosis of a depressive episode, in order to better predict remission and potentially to optimize therapeutic prescribing strategies for patients accordingly. The impairment of neurocognitive processes related to reward constitutes a first vulnerability marker for major depressive disorder (MDD): in a study assessing the production of motor effort in order to obtain a reward, depressed patients had a deficit in production of effort, unlike healthy subjects. Such deficit in incentive motivation - a process underpinned by the activation of ventral cortico-striatal circuits in healthy subjects - may constitute a specific dimension of MDD. It participates in the decision-making and action processes impairments and is associated with – and possibly a consequence of- more specifically cognitive deficits. In a study assessing several cognitive functions in a large cohort of depressed patients, the persistence of psychomotor retardation after 6 to 8 weeks of treatment - in patients considered as being in clinical remission - was positively and independently correlated with the number of past depressive episodes, thus constituting a marker of "cumulative" marker of past depressive episodes. Finally, in a literature review on the progressive evolution of cognitive deficits in MDD, we discussed the existence of a “neurotoxic” effect of the lifetime accumulation of depressive episodes on neurocognitive deficits and its consequences on disease prognosis (increased risk of incomplete functional/clinical remission, relapses, evolution towards dementia). One of the main interest in identifying clinical and cognitive markers of vulnerability is to highlight their capacity to predict the course of a depressive episode-or disorder. In a study based on a cohort of more than 500 depressed patients, a measurement of attention (d2 attention test) was able to significantly and independently predict the subsequent course towards complete remission (clinical and functional) and to constitute a trait -marker of depression, easy to use in clinical practice. Other cognitive markers (such as executive functions) have shown high predictive values for therapeutic response, comparable to those provided by imaging or electrophysiology markers, according to the results of a recent meta-analysis, that emphasizes the interest of using them in patient’s follow-up. Finally, in order to better assess the prognosis of depressive disorder, we have shown that Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) diagnosis criteria - which nevertheless represents a specific depressive disorder with well-known physiopathology substrates (construction validity) - had a low predictive validity, prompting to consider this disorder as a temporary expression of a mood disorder, rather than a specific disorder. The identification of clinical tools measuring motivational and cognitive deficits in clinical routine and predicting the course of a depressive episode or disorder represents a major challenge in the improvement of personalized therapeutic management and the long-term prognosis in depressed patients
Mouwafak, Ghassan Nadya. "Spelifiering och dess effekt på inre motivation till att källsortera : Hur topplistor, poäng, medaljer och streaks påverkar motivationen till att källsortera." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-107048.
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Rawolle, Maika. "The motivating power of visions : exploring the mechanisms." kostenfrei, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1001863380/34.
Full textRichards, Hazel Marie. "Mechanisms, motivations and outcomes of change in Morley (Leeds) English." Thesis, University of York, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21059/.
Full textBrown, Candace. "MOTIVES FOR PARTICIPATION IN TRIATHLONS AMONG MIDLIFE TO OLDER BLACK WOMEN: A MIXED METHOD STUDY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4181.
Full textHall-Jones, Casey A. "Identifying motivations for contributions to a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619186014578771.
Full textNachmany, Michal. "The micro-dynamics of environmental policy diffusion : conditions, motivations, and mechanisms." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3466/.
Full textRoth, Debra. "The effect of two modes of aerobic assessment on fifth grade students' self efficacy." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3319.
Full textZaitseva, Svitlana, Віра Іванівна Лисиця, Вера Ивановна Лисица, and Vira Ivanivna Lysytsia. "Motivational mechanism for the sustainable energy efficient development." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/10053.
Full textDrotsky, Willem Abraham. "Goalsetting as a motivational mechanism for therapeutic intervention." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10222004-142201.
Full textIslam, Nadia. "Mechanisms of Motivational Interviewing in a Parent-focused Pediatric Obesity Intervention." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5030.
Full textCranis, Peter F. "Inoculation theory: motivation mechanism vs. attack credibility as mediators of resistance to persuasion." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 1988. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/RTD/id/16061.
Full textWatson, Benjamin James. "Neurobiological mechanisms underlying the motivational process in chronic opioid and alcohol dependence." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633450.
Full textCopeland, Lauren. "Understanding the therapeutic process : mechanisms of motivational interviewing in weight loss maintenance." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73303/.
Full textMakhaiel, Nargis K. B. "Towards an understanding of earnings management theory and practice in Egypt : motivations and mechanisms." Thesis, University of Essex, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601496.
Full textJing, Hui. "Eliminating Barriers on Knowledge Sharing through Communication in MCC: A Mechanism of Performance-Motivation Control." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-177196.
Full textMostovicz, E. Isaac. "Understanding of consumers' needs for luxury : the mechanism of interpretation and its role in knowledge creation." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2008. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/2669/.
Full textMathers, Claire. "Motivational mechanisms underlying General Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) : the effects of negative mood." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54342/.
Full textMitchell, Robert D. "Gamification and behaviour change: Understanding the mechanism and its implications for social marketing." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/201658/1/Robert_Mitchell_Thesis.pdf.
Full textWeman-Josefsson, Karin Anna. "EXPLORING MOTIVATIONAL MECHANISMS IN EXERCISE BEHAVIOUR : Applying Self-determination theory in a person-centred approach." Licentiate thesis, Psykologiska Institutionen Göteborgs Universitet, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-25427.
Full textMotion och fysisk aktivitet är multifacetterade beteenden som påverkas av komplexa samband mellan en mängd olika faktorer och ett sätt öka förståelsen för mekanismerna bakom hållbara motionsbeteenden är att studera motivationsrelaterade förhållanden och förutsättningar. Denna licentiatavhandling har därför en personcentrerad ansats som baseras på en deskriptiv processmodell som ingår i Självbestämmandeteorin (Self-determination theory; SDT). I Studie 1 genomfördes en tvärsnittsstudie på 1091 medlemmar i en web-baserad motionstjänst och avancerade medieringsanalyser genererade stöd för de hypotetiska relationerna mellan latenta variabler och motionsbeteende i processmodellen. Analyserna visade även modereringseffekter genom att dessa relationer skilde sig åt mellan grupper baserade på kön och ålder. Resultaten representerar därmed en första indikation på att utformandet av motionsinterventioner eventuellt kan gynnas av att anpassas till olika demografiska grupper, t ex baserat på kön och ålder. I Studie 2 genomfördes en intervention på 64 frivilliga deltagare i form av en RCT-design med två mätpunkter. Det SDT-baserade innehållet i interventionen förmedlades med hjälp av praktiska riktlinjer från metoderna Motiverande samtal (MI), Återfallsprevention (RPM) och Kognitiv beteendeterapi (CBT). Resultaten visade interventionseffekter på motionsbeteenden (mängd och intensitet), samt medieringseffekter av RAI (Relative Autonomy Index; ett index på graden av självbestämmande) och identifierad reglering i relation till motionsbeteende. Experimentgruppen uppvisade även lägre nivåer av yttre motivation än kontrollgruppen efter interventionen. Båda studierna är därmed i linje med det växande empiriska stödet för applicering av SDT inom motionsområdet och bidrar på flera sätt till kunskapsutvecklingen om motivationsrelaterade mekanismer. Det främsta bidraget är att självbestämmande motivation visade sig fungera som en medierande variabel i relationen mellan tillfredsställelse av psykologiska basbehov och motionsbeteende och att dessa latenta effekter skilde sig åt utifrån deltagarnas kön och ålder. Detta pekar på att mekanismerna i processmodellen kan variera i olika grupper, vilket skulle kunna påverka eventuella praktiska implikationer för framtida interventionsdesign. Vidare indikerar resultaten i Studie 2 att medieringsmekanismerna i processmodellen är möjliga att manipulera i en intervention, exempelvis genom att skapa stödjande miljöer som främjar internalisering och därigenom efterföljande motionsbeteenden. Båda studierna visar även att identifierad reglering har en viktig funktion i motivationsprocessen, vilket understryker betydelsen av att främja internalisering i aktiviteter som motion. Slutligen finns det argument för värdet av att anta en poly-teoretisk ansats i skapandet av motionsinterventioner, framförallt genom att kombinera SDT med andra teorier och metoder.
Chikoore, Lesley. "Perceptions, motivations and behaviours towards research impact : a cross-disciplinary perspective." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/22942.
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