Approach and Avoidance Motivation

By A. Elliot, M. Covington. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Effects of motivation on reward and attentional networks: an fMRI study (2012, background): “…anticipation is associated with lower activation in attentional networks, possibly due to increased processing efficiency, whereas more difficult, conflict trials are associated with lower activity in regions of the reward system, possibly because such trials are experienced as less rewarding.”
A NOVEL APPROACH TO ASSESSING ACHIEVEMENT GOALS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 2 X 2 FRAMEWORK: IDENTIFYING DISTINCT PROFILES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DIFFERENT DOMINANT ACHIEVEMENT GOALS (2006, background): “Elliot and his coauthors (Elliot, 1999; Elliot & Covington, 2001; Elliot & Harackiewicz, 1996; Elliot & McGregor, 2001; cf. Pintrich, 2000) argued and demonstrated in the mid- to late 1990s that this dimension also deserves to be incorporated into conceptualizations of achievement goals.”
Language Learner Motivational Types: A Cluster Analysis Study (2014, background): “Some of these fundamental motivational distinctions include conscious and unconscious motivation (Chartland & Bargh, 2002), approach and avoidance motivation (Elliot, 1999; Elliot & Covington, 2001), and promotion and prevention motivation (Higgins, 1998).”
Relationship between Student’s Self-Directed-Learning Readiness and Academic Self-Efficacy and Achievement Motivation in Students (2016, background): “Individuals will satisfy their needs through different means, and are driven to succeed for varying reasons both internal and external (Ellliot & Covington, 2001) Motivational researchers share the view that achievement behavior is an interaction between situational variables and the individual…”
Client Articulated Avoidance Goals in the Therapy Context. (2002, background): “Individuals may seek to approach a positive possibility or avoid a negative possibility, and this approach–avoidance distinction represents a foundational dimension of motivated behavior (Elliot, 1999; Elliot & Covington, 2001 ).”
Evidence for bivariate systems: An empirical test of appetition and aversion across domains (2003, result): “Other authors, citing the rich history of the approach–avoidance distinction not only in humans but also in other species, have asserted that the distinction between appetition and aversion may be fundamental and innate (e.g., Elliot & Covington, 2001 ), a conclusion also supported by neurophysiolo”
Avoidance of Information Technology Threats: A Theoretical Perspective (2009, background): “The approach–avoidance distinction has been recognized as a fundamental, basic concept in motivation and decision theories (Carver and White 1994; Elliot 2006; Elliot and Covington 2001; Steel and Konig 2006; Tversky and Kahneman 1992).”