نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
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چکیده
Abstract
Objective: We used the affective profiles model to investigate individual differences in motivation, stress and
energy. The aim was to replicate past findings, but we also focused on matched comparisons within individuals with
affective profiles that are similar in one affective dimension and differ in the other in order to predict changes when
individuals increase/decrease their experience of positive or negative affect.
Methods: A total of 567 participants answered the Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule, which was used
for affective profiling; the Situational Motivation Scale, which measures intrinsic motivation, identified regulation,
external regulation, and amotivation; and the Stress-Energy questionnaire.
Results: Comparisons between the four different profiles, replicating the past findings, showed that individuals with
high affective and self-fulfilling profile scored highest in intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, and energy, while
they scored lowest in external motivation, amotivation, and the self-fulfilling profile, also lowest in stress. Additionally,
the matched comparisons showed, for example, that levels of intrinsic motivation increase when negative affect levels
decrease, and positive affect is kept high when positive affect decreases and negative affect is kept low.
Conclusions: One important feature of the affective profiles model is the possibility to compare individuals that
are similar in one affect dimension but differ in the other (Garcia, 2011, 2017). This way of discussing individual
differences helps to predict what changes could be expected when individuals increase or decrease their experience of
positive or negative affect. Importantly, the direction of these changes cannot be addressed from cross-sectional data
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