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Direct linkHoyos, Carlos Arturo; Serna, César Augusto – Cogent Education, 2021
The perception of dissatisfaction with rewards is associated with the growing number of faculty members who express their intention to leave the university (TI). Our study has two aims. First, to analyze the phenomenon of TI based on faculty members' perception of both extrinsic as intrinsic rewards (EIR), considering the moderating effect of age,…
Descriptors: Rewards, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Teacher Attitudes
Danovitch, Judith H.; Fisher, Megan; Schroder, Hans; Hambrick, David Z.; Moser, Jason – Child Development, 2019
This study explored developmental and individual differences in intellectual humility (IH) among 127 children ages 6-8. IH was operationalized as children's assessment of their knowledge and willingness to delegate scientific questions to experts. Children completed measures of IH, theory of mind, motivational framework, and intelligence, and…
Descriptors: Neurology, Physiology, Social Cognition, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Kyndt, Eva; Raes, Elisabeth; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Els – Journal of Career Development, 2013
Learning and development are taking up a central role in the human resource policies of organizations because of their crucial contribution to the competitiveness of those organizations. The present study investigates the relationship of work motivation, perceived workload, and choice independence with employees' approaches to learning at work.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Workplace Learning, Motivation
Bijvoet-van den Berg, Simone; Hoicka, Elena – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Divergent thinking shows the ability to search for new ideas, which is an important factor contributing to innovation and problem solving. Current divergent thinking tests allow researchers to study children's divergent thinking from the age of 3 years on. This article presents the first measure of divergent thinking that can be used with children…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Age Differences, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Bentley, Peter James; Kyvik, Svein – Research in Higher Education, 2013
In research universities, research time is often too scarce to satiate the wishes of all faculty and must be allocated according to guidelines and principles. We examine self-reported research hours for full-time faculty at research universities in 13 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Motivation, Foreign Countries, Research Universities
Luciana, Monica; Wahlstrom, Dustin; Porter, James N.; Collins, Paul F. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Behavioral activation that is associated with incentive-reward motivation increases in adolescence relative to childhood and adulthood. This quadratic developmental pattern is generally supported by behavioral and experimental neuroscience findings. It is suggested that a focus on changes in dopamine neurotransmission is informative in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Motivation, Age Differences, Rewards
Urosevic, Snezana; Collins, Paul; Muetzel, Ryan; Lim, Kelvin; Luciana, Monica – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Adolescence is a period of radical normative changes and increased risk for substance use, mood disorders, and physical injury. Researchers have proposed that increases in reward sensitivity (i.e., sensitivity of the behavioral approach system [BAS]) and/or increases in reactivity to all emotional stimuli (i.e., reward and threat sensitivities)…
Descriptors: Brain, Neurological Organization, Behavior, Motivation
Salley, Brenda; Miller, Angela; Bell, Martha Ann – Infant and Child Development, 2013
Recent research has demonstrated that social responsiveness (comprised of social awareness, social information processing, reciprocal social communication, social motivation, and repetitive/restricted interests) is continuously distributed within the general population. In the present study, we consider temperament as a co-occurring source of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Age Differences, Young Children, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedBarton, John; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Assesses the social image of cigarette smoking held by early- and middle-adolescent smokers and examines whether that social image serves to motivate smoking initiation. Results indicate that the social image of both male and female smokers is an ambivalent one. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Individual Differences, Motivation
Peer reviewedHrncir, Elizabeth J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
A spontaneous mastery measure, sampling sophistication of infants' behavior and infants' propensity to demonstrate their most sophisticated repertoire of skills, was developed and tested for predictability. Unlike a measure of executive capacity to which it was compared, the spontaneous mastery measure was highly stable across a 6-month period.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedFarley, Frank H.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Imagination, Individual Characteristics
Download full textSjostrand, Wilhelm; And Others – 1970
A study was made of background, personality, and other characteristics as related to aptitude test performance among Swedish adults attending evening schools, state secondary schools for adults, and county colleges, and among those pursuing correspondence courses. Test results were significantly related to age, sex, and dropout status…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Students, Age Differences, Aptitude
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr. – 1979
Students' reported reasons for academic success or failure (categorized as ability, effort, task difficulty, or luck) were studied simultaneously in over 1,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 11. Differences between 16 attributional groups (4 success x 4 failure) were reported by discriminant analysis, according to grade, sex, and ethnic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Anxiety, Attribution Theory
BELBIN, R.M. – 1965
A SURVEY WAS PRESENTED OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE ON AGE CHANGES IN HUMAN CAPACITIES, ESPECIALLY IN LEARNING ABILITY AND ADAPTABILITY, AND DESCRIBED VARIOUS METHODS USED TO TRAIN WORKERS OVER 40. THE ROLE OF MEMORY, MOTIVATION, RIGIDITY, AND INTELLIGENCE IN DETERMINING THE LEARNING EFFICIENCY OF MATURE ADULTS WAS ASSESSED, ALSO DIFFICULTIES CAUSED BY…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age, Age Differences, Anxiety
