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California State University, San Bernardino

Motivation (Psychology)

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When Means-Efficacy And Self-Efficacy Affect Performance: A Look At Locus Of Control, Patricia Padilla Jan 2013

When Means-Efficacy And Self-Efficacy Affect Performance: A Look At Locus Of Control, Patricia Padilla

Theses Digitization Project

Self-efficacy, means-efficacy, and locus of control have been found to affect performance. This study was a 2 x 2 x 2 between groups quasi-experiment, in 2 parts, designed to measure interaction between locus of control, self efficacy, and means-efficacy. Participants were 257 students at California State University, San Bernardino aged 18 through 63 years and about half were Hispanic females.


The Development Of Means-Efficacy Through Mastery Experience, Casey Kiyoshi Arakawa Jan 2013

The Development Of Means-Efficacy Through Mastery Experience, Casey Kiyoshi Arakawa

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate means-efficacy through mastery experience. Traditionally self-efficacy has been shown to influence an individual's expectation about their performance. Students participated in typing tests with past experience using a high or low quality keyboard. The following study utilized a priori contrasts and one-way ANOVAS to analysis data. One hundred ninety-six students from California State University, San Bernardino participated in the study.


Quality Or Quantity?: Refining The Definition Of The Means Efficacy Construct And Its Relationship To Task Specific Self-Efficacy, Jennifer Renee Rice Jan 2011

Quality Or Quantity?: Refining The Definition Of The Means Efficacy Construct And Its Relationship To Task Specific Self-Efficacy, Jennifer Renee Rice

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The purpose of this study was to expand on the definition of the means efficacy construct and its relationship to task-specific self-efficacy. The current research has three studies: assesssing quality means efficacy from a self-report method, study two assessing quality means efficacy from a self-report method, and study three comparing quality and quantity means efficacy to determine which would be a better predictor of confidence in various tasks.


Comparing Conscientiousness And Neuroticism In Predicting Task Performance And Contextual Performance, Lu Qin Jan 2011

Comparing Conscientiousness And Neuroticism In Predicting Task Performance And Contextual Performance, Lu Qin

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The primary aim of this proposal is to address the relationship of effort intensity to neuroticism in predicting task performance and compare conscientiousness and neuroticism in predicting task performance and contextual performance. Building on previous studies' results, Big Five personality factors were examined as correlates of job performance. A pilot survey was distributed to a total of 251 participants who were working at least 20 hours a week collected from five organizations in the Los Angeles area.


Performance Differences In Diverse Contexts: The Role Of Personality, Daniel Karl Cashmore Jan 2010

Performance Differences In Diverse Contexts: The Role Of Personality, Daniel Karl Cashmore

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This study seeks to explain performance differences in demographically diverse settings by examing introverted and extraverted individuals and using the Inverted-U-Theory developed by Hans J. Eysenck.


The Effectiveness Of Altering Value Structure To Enhance Creativity, Christa Larai Taylor Jan 2010

The Effectiveness Of Altering Value Structure To Enhance Creativity, Christa Larai Taylor

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The purpose of the current study is to determine if individual creativity may be lastingly enhanced by altering a more stable, enduring factor than those in previous studies, namely values. This study was designed to determine if values related to creativity may be enhanced using an established method of value change, known as Value Self Confrontation (VSC), and if an increase in "creative dimension" values would therefore result in enhanced creative behavior.


Means Efficacy: The Proposed Role Of External Resources On Motivation, Marissa Marie Jones Jan 2009

Means Efficacy: The Proposed Role Of External Resources On Motivation, Marissa Marie Jones

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Means Efficacy is the belief in the utility of the resources that are necessary to complete a specific task. This research examined the relationship between means-efficacy and self-efficacy on perceptions of resources, perceptions of abilities, peformance expectations and actual peformance. This study sought to expand on the means efficacy literature by demonstrating the separate but parallel roles of the means efficacy and self-efficacy constructs on the the self-regulatory process.


Prepotency Of Extrinsic And Intrinsic Factors On Job Satisfaction: A Structural Equation Model, David Bruce Galloway Jan 2002

Prepotency Of Extrinsic And Intrinsic Factors On Job Satisfaction: A Structural Equation Model, David Bruce Galloway

Theses Digitization Project

The project is to about employee job satisfaction and how outside and inside factors affect that satisfaction. The researcher used the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire to measure satisfaction.


Transactional And Transformational Leadership As An Element Of Organizational Context For Team Behavior And Effectiveness, Ahu Gokmen Jan 2000

Transactional And Transformational Leadership As An Element Of Organizational Context For Team Behavior And Effectiveness, Ahu Gokmen

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No abstract provided.


Team Research On Intrinsic Motivation In Student Populations: A Continuing Project, Marian Brow Petrovick Jan 1998

Team Research On Intrinsic Motivation In Student Populations: A Continuing Project, Marian Brow Petrovick

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No abstract provided.


Conditioned Acquisition And Augmenting Effects In Causal Attributions For Employee Performance, Lia Jean Nieri Jan 1995

Conditioned Acquisition And Augmenting Effects In Causal Attributions For Employee Performance, Lia Jean Nieri

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A social analog of a short-delay conditioning paradigm in Pavlovian learning was used to test the prediction that under certain conditions, human causal judgments would reflect acquired response properties that can be either increased (augmented) or decreased (discounted). The learning experiment was masked by describing it as a study testing a computerized employee evaluation system.