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Title: Work motivation in Zambia : an exploratory study
Creator: Machungwa, Peter David
Date: 1981
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The quantification of drive II. Two methods of food privation
Creator: Smith, Orville A.
Date: 1953
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Determinants of "pre-moral" development in pigeons
Creator: Caplan, Harry Jay, 1948-
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A cluster analysis of objective measure of academic motivation
Creator: Smith, Fred William
Date: 1965
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The effect of emotionally loaded stimuli on visual recognition thresholds : an investigation of the phenomenon and process
Creator: McCarthy, Charles Donald
Date: 1956
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Learning through stimulus satiation : one trial a day
Creator: Wells, Ruth Holm
Date: 1956
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Improving training effectiveness through motivation : creating a psychological states intervention
Creator: Weissbein, Daniel Adam
Date: 2000
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Motivation : a mediator of value consensus, trait compatibility, and adjustment in marital dyads
Creator: Price, Gregory Evans, 1949-
Date: 1976
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A comparison of the effectiveness of various motivational techniques upon the performance of a sports skill test
Creator: Gates, Dianne Kaye
Date: 1971
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Effects of goal setting and financial incentives on clerical performance
Creator: White, Sydney William
Date: 1976
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A test of the hypothesis of additivity-of-cues in a two-choice discrimination learning problem
Creator: Trabasso, Thomas Robert
Date: 1959
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: System effects on beginning teachers in innovative and non-innovative schools
Creator: Force, William Riley, 1937-
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The well-being of adults who volunteer with children at risk of child maltreatment
Creator: Bishop, Joshua Daniel
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The lack of sufficient foster care homes, their inconsistent quality, and their risk of increasing negative outcomes for children highlight the need for more people to be involved in roles that support children at risk of maltreatment and foster care. While volunteer opportunities exist for supporting children after foster care placements, few opportunities exist to care for children who are at risk of maltreatment and foster care. Innovative approaches are being developed to provide such...
Show moreThe lack of sufficient foster care homes, their inconsistent quality, and their risk of increasing negative outcomes for children highlight the need for more people to be involved in roles that support children at risk of maltreatment and foster care. While volunteer opportunities exist for supporting children after foster care placements, few opportunities exist to care for children who are at risk of maltreatment and foster care. Innovative approaches are being developed to provide such opportunities. These approaches may find support from an emerging literature that has found a positive relationship between volunteerism and well-being. However, no studies have investigated the well-being of those who volunteer with children at risk of maltreatment and/or child welfare involvement. This dissertation, which is an exploratory, cross-sectional, quantitative study, will address this gap with a sample of volunteers (N = 302) from Safe Families for Children (SFFC), a faith-based organization that works to keep children safe during family crises, prevent child maltreatment, and reduce the number of children entering the child welfare system. The aim of the dissertation is to investigate whether volunteering and/or motivation are associated with seven dimensions of well-being: Happiness, Physical Health, Life Satisfaction, Self-Mastery, Self-Esteem, Anxiety, and Depression.Results demonstrate limited evidence of significant relationships between volunteering and well-being dimensions. There is also limited evidence of significant relationships between motivation and well-being. However, an important finding of this study is that despite the high time and emotional demands of doing this type of volunteer work, there is no apparent decrease or drop-off in the well-being of the volunteers. Rather, they are happy and physically healthy. They report very low levels of anxiety and depression, and they demonstrate a high degree of Self-Esteem, Self-Mastery, and Life Satisfaction. While some may believe that working with children at risk of maltreatment is stressful and may result in a decrease in well-being (Tyebjee, 2003), the results of this study suggest that it is not the case for Host Families from Safe Families for Children.The Confirmatory Factor Analysis used in this study is a unique contribution to the literature. It robustly demonstrates very reliable methods for operationalizing and measuring seven well-being dimensions as well as four dimensions of motivation. The analyses and results in this study go beyond typically used measurements of reliability and offer strong evidence for reliably measuring well-being in future studies.The most important limitation in this study is the lack of control or comparison group that would allow for investigating the difference in well-being among SFFC volunteers and those who are not SFFC volunteers.This study offers reliable options for future studies to operationalize well-being and motivation in a way that encourages accurate comparison between studies. Future studies should consider whether using measurement scales that can detect small changes in well-being among populations that may have a high level of well-being are important. Implications for practice include recommendations for volunteer managers to focus on volunteer efficiency, the importance of social support, and motivation.
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Title: Children's sources of self-efficacy, accuracy of appraisal and motivation in sport skills and physical activities
Creator: Chase, Melissa Ann
Date: 1995
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Group size and contributions to collective action : a test of Mancur Olson, Jr's theory on zero population growth, inc
Creator: Tillock, Harriet Evelyn, 1926-
Date: 1976
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Understanding the motivations of community gardeners in the Greater Lansing Area
Creator: Castle, Harry Jack George
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Community gardening forms one of the most common entry points for urban residents into sustainable food systems, with benefits that scale to the community level. Considering the broad range of benefits that community gardening provides, it is important to understand the factors that influence gardener recruitment and retention, as well as the ways in which gardener motivations change over time. This thesis uses photo-elicitation and thematic analysis of the resulting discussions to provide...
Show moreCommunity gardening forms one of the most common entry points for urban residents into sustainable food systems, with benefits that scale to the community level. Considering the broad range of benefits that community gardening provides, it is important to understand the factors that influence gardener recruitment and retention, as well as the ways in which gardener motivations change over time. This thesis uses photo-elicitation and thematic analysis of the resulting discussions to provide insight into the motivations of community gardeners in Greater Lansing, MI. It identifies nine prominent themes relating to the gardeners' experiences and outlines how gardening allows for connection to their families, communities, and natural environment. Additionally, this thesis applies Tadaki et al.,'s Values as Priorities framework to community gardening in order to elucidate the range of motivations that influence participation in gardening. Comparison with the literature finds that participants in this thesis largely reflect the values and motivations described in the wider literature, however, it is highlighted that the ways in which many of these motivations interact and link to form nested relationships. This led to the creation of three overarching motivational themes highlighting Social Connection, Natural Connection and Achievement. It is also identified how some motivations change over time, with gardeners expressing how their experiences of community gardening have influenced their goals and outcomes, with more emphasis on benefits generated throughout the gardening process.
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Title: Consumer information processing differences in response to firm pricing : remembering versus reasoning
Creator: Yeo, Chang Seob
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Previous literature has found evidence of firm's motivation to encourage consumers' stockpiling behavior as well as benefits occurred from stockpiling. Stockpiling in this dissertation refers to the propensity of consumers to increase their inventory level for future consumption of stock-up products which are nonperishable and in a unit size that consumers frequently purchase. A sales promotion (i.e., a price discount) is a fundamental condition for consumers' stockpiling behavior. Four...
Show morePrevious literature has found evidence of firm's motivation to encourage consumers' stockpiling behavior as well as benefits occurred from stockpiling. Stockpiling in this dissertation refers to the propensity of consumers to increase their inventory level for future consumption of stock-up products which are nonperishable and in a unit size that consumers frequently purchase. A sales promotion (i.e., a price discount) is a fundamental condition for consumers' stockpiling behavior. Four experiments of this dissertation intend to make contributions to literature of sales promotions, stockpiling, and price knowledge by answering (1) What types of price discounts trigger stockpiling behavior? and (2) Would types of discounts operate differently for different products (i.e., benefit changed products) and for different situations (i.e., an introduction of a new product under an established brand name or under new brand name)? as well as additionally investigating the direct effects depth and frequency of a discount on consumers' price knowledge and perceived similarity with overall shopping experiences. Across all of four experiments, significant direct effects of discount depth and frequency on stockpiling; that interaction are found. Such main effects are moderated by benefit changes, new product introduction, and new brand introduction and also directionality among moderators vary. Lastly, evidence for proposed mediators which are price recall error, price comparison error, and consumers' perceived similarity with overall shopping experiences is not found.
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