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Motivation: Meaning and Nature

Motivation refers to the internal driving forces that activate and direct behavior toward goals. It is the process that energizes, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. Motivation is always goal-oriented and works to fulfill needs and reduce drives. It regulates behavior by initiating it and sustaining it until the goal is achieved. Motivation can be intrinsic, from internal rewards like enjoyment, or extrinsic, from external rewards like money or recognition. Needs give rise to drives, which create a motivational tension to be reduced. Incentives add force to drives, while motives are the goals that prompt behavior.

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Motivation: Meaning and Nature

Motivation refers to the internal driving forces that activate and direct behavior toward goals. It is the process that energizes, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. Motivation is always goal-oriented and works to fulfill needs and reduce drives. It regulates behavior by initiating it and sustaining it until the goal is achieved. Motivation can be intrinsic, from internal rewards like enjoyment, or extrinsic, from external rewards like money or recognition. Needs give rise to drives, which create a motivational tension to be reduced. Incentives add force to drives, while motives are the goals that prompt behavior.

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PSYCHOLOGY ( PAPER A) MOTIVATION MEANING AND NATURE
Dr Renu Somal Associate Professor Department of Psychology Post Graduate Govt. College for Girls Sector-11, CHANDIGARH

MOTIVATION
The term motivation literally means to move or to energize or to activate. Motive is some internal activator that energizes and impels an individual to engage in a wide variety of activities. Motivation is the driving force that helps an individual to make consistent efforts to achieve his/her goals.

MOTIVATION
DEFINITIONS Motivation refers to the driving and pulling forces which result in persistent behaviour directed towards particular goal. Morgan and King Motivation refers to the internal process that cant be directly observed but that activates, guides and maintains an overt behaviour.- Baron A motive is a particular internal factor or condition that tends to initiate and to sustain activity. Guilford

MOTIVATIONAL CYCLE

NEED

Instrumental Behaviour

GOAL

CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTIVATION
Motivation refers to the internal processes that cant be directly observed. Motivation activates the individual to perform varied activities. Motivation directs an individuals behaviour. Motivation regulates behaviour by initiating it and by keeping it consistent till the goal is attained.

CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTIVATION (Continued)


Motivation is always goal oriented i.e. our behaviour is directed towards goal achievement. Extra energy is mobilized during an emergency or achieving situation. There are continuous changes and variations that are produced in our motives in the view of attainment of goals.

SOME CONCEPTS OF MOTIVATION


1. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION Motivation causing individuals to perform an activity for their own enjoyment and not for any reward. An individual is motivated to act or behave not because of external rewards but due to internal rewards such as happiness, satisfaction etc. 2. EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION Motivation causing individuals to participate in an activity for some external reward. The reward could be money, recognition, award etc .An individual is motivated to perform an activity so as to obtain some external reward.

CONCEPTS OF MOTIVATION (Continued)


NEED: Needs are general wants or desires. Needs are physiological or psychological requirements for the well-being of organisms. Individual strives for the fulfillment of his/her needs. DRIVE: A need gives rise to a drive. It is a motivational tension that energizes behaviour in order to fulfill a need.

CONCEPTS OF MOTIVATION (Continued)


INCENTIVE: An incentive is a reinforcing agent that adds force to a drive. Praise, rewards, achievement of the desired objectives are examples of incentives. MOTIVE: Motive is a desired goal that prompts behaviour. It is a readiness or disposition to respond in some ways and not others to a variety of situations. Motive thus is an energetic force or tendency( learned or innate) working within the individual to persuade or inspire him/her to act either for the satisfaction of his/her basic needs or for some other specific purpose.

BASIC MODEL OF MOTIVATION


NEED FEEDBACK FULFILLMENT DESIRED GOAL DRIVE

CONCLUSIONS
Motivation refers to the driving and pulling forces which result in persistent behaviour directed towards particular goals. Motives are inferences from observations of behaviour. Motives are powerful tools for the explanation of behaviour, and these are also helpful in making predictions about future behaviour.

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