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Teachers' Motivation for Teaching in Higher Education: Portuguese Validation of a Questionnaire

Abstract Motivation for teaching is key in the establishment and further development of high-quality higher education, as it affects teachers' investment in quality learning experiences for their students, as well as institutional efficacy and well-being. This study aimed to validate a questionnaire, ori...

Motivational Profiles in High School Students: Generation and Use of Volitional Strategies

Abstract This research had as its main purpose to analyze the generation and use of volitional strategies - motivational and emotional control -, based on the motivational profile of the students, through a mixed methodology. Two standardized instruments (CMA and AVSI) were applied to 204 Mexican high sc...

Factors associated with adherence to a web-based alcohol intervention among college students

This study aimed to evaluate the association between student characteristics and recruitment strategies in the adherence of college students to a web-based alcohol intervention. Participants were 46,329 Brazilian students aged from 18 to 30, who consumed alcohol during the past three months. Three recrui...

Creative use of information and communication technologies according to university professors and students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of technologies in fostering students' creativity and motivation in university classrooms, according to professors and students. Nine professors from three groups - those who use information and communication technologies creatively, those who make tr...

Motivação em praticantes de exercício resistido

Introdução: A importância da prática de exercícios físicos pela população tem se tornado objeto de estudo de diversas áreas, tendo se comprovado os benefícios oriundos da realização constante dos exercícios físicos. Para incorporar essa prática na rotina, se faz importante saber...

Motivos que levam praticantes e não praticantes de exercício físico do Distrito Federal a não se exercitarem em academias

Objetivo: Identificar os motivos que levam praticantes e não praticantes de exercícios físicos do Distrito Federal (DF) a não procurarem uma academia para se exercitarem. Metodologia: Participaram 223 moradores do DF, de ambos os sexos, com idades entre 18 e 66 anos, que não fr...

Protótipo de aplicativo móvel motivacional para pessoas com hipertensão arterial sistêmica

Resumo Objetivo Descrever o processo de produção do protótipo de um aplicativo para smartphone para motivar pessoas com hipertensão arterial sistêmica a aderir ao tratamento medicamentoso. Métodos Estudo de produção tecnológica do tipo prototipagem, com construção baseada no modelo design ...

Avaliação da motivação para aprender com base na teoria da autodeterminação

Aval. psicol; 20 (4), 2021
O presente estudo buscou estimar indicadores de validade com base na estrutura interna e estimativa de precisão da versão adaptada do Continuum de motivação, por meio de uma análise fatorial confirmatória (AFC). Participaram 391 alunos do primeiro ao terceiro ano do ensino médio (M = 17,6; DP = 2,...

Motivation Scale for Learning with the use of DICT (EMA - TDIC)

Psico USF; 26 (spe), 2021
The motivation to learn, as a socio-affective component, has been investigated as a facilitating phenomenon for the permanence of young people in formal education. The aim of this study was to seek evidence of content and the internal structure of the items that make up an instrument to identify the moti...

Implications of motivation in the application of technologists' learning strategies

Psico USF; 26 (spe), 2021
This study aimed to investigate the association between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for the use of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies in technologists. Possible differences in both constructs in terms of sex and course were also analyzed. Participants were 96 students from two technol...