Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Motivation: An Approach/Avoidance Reformulation

By M. Covington, Kimberly J. Müeller. 2001

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Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Why Grades Engender Performance Avoidance Goals: The Mediating Role of Autonomous Motivation (2011, background): “In pursuit of these aims, we argue that students depend on grades (Covington & Müeller, 2001), as grades are determined by an external source and students have limited control over the quality of the grade, grading being explicitly or implicitly normative in nature (Deutsch, 1979; Thorndike, 1913)…”
Intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and academic achievement among Indian adolescents in Canada and India (2011, background): “In summary, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation are not incompatible and can coexist in different degrees ( Covington and Mueller 2001 ).”
The Dynamics of Motivation and Effort for Classroom Assessments in Middle School Science and Social Studies (2006, background): “A moderate level of challenge should call forth high perceptions of the importance and value of the task and self-efficacy and mastery goal orientations among all except failure-accepting students (Covington, 1992; Covington & Müeller, 2001), subject of course to individual student variation.”
Influence of Student Learning Experience on Academic Performance: The Mediator and Moderator Effects of Self-Regulation and Motivation. (2012, background): “Whilst traditional motivational researchers view learning that is an outcome of intrinsic motivation as superior and more desirable than learning that is fostered through extrinsic motivation (Hidi, 2000 ), most contemporary researchers acknowledge that intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, in many r”
The mediating influence of unconditional self-acceptance and labile self-esteem on the relationship between multidimensional perfectionism and exercise dependence. (2009, background): “This led Hall et al. (2007) to conclude that obligatory exercise behaviour appears to be underpinned by a combination of achievement related overstriving (Covington, 1992, 2000; Covington & Mueller, 2001 )a nd a pervasive sense of worry about personal adequacy and the consequences of failure to li”
The future of skills: employment in 2030 (2017, background): “The research literature shows that teachers can play an important role – both in raising student expectations and in rewarding the process of learning – for instance, in giving students opportunities to share the results of their work with others or explain why what they learned was valuable to them”
Perfectionism, Achievement, and Affect in Children: A Comparison of Students From Gifted, Arts, and Regular Programs (2009, background): “…Hewitt (2006) have observed that these findings fit with Covington’s suggestion that perfectionists are “overstrivers” who persist at attempts to be extremely successful in an attempt to avoid the possibility of failures and associated ego threats (see Covington, 2000; Covington & Mueller, 2001).”
Edutainment: is learning at risk? (2003, background): “…tendency to engage in activities for their own sake, just for the pleasure derived in performing them or for the satisfaction of curiosity, while extrinsic motivations include compliance, recognition, and grades and rewards, which are unrelated to the act of learning (Covington and Müeller, 2001).”
A typological approach to investigate the teaching career decision: Motivations and beliefs about teaching of prospective teacher candidates (2012, result): “We find our study results in line with Covington and Mueller’s (2001) approach, a unidimensional model of motivation suggesting that different types of motivation blend within the same individual with one type of motivation being more predominant than other(s), as opposed to Deci and Ryan (2000) who”