Leontiev Dmitry A. (ed.) Motivation, Consciousness and Self-Regulation

Nova Science Publishers, 2012. — 287 p. — (Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions). — ISBN 978-1-61324-795-2.The first part of this book is devoted to the old problem of fundamental motivations that can hardly be approached in another way, other than theoretically. The second part of the book is devoted to new or rather marginal concepts that seem capable to enrich general models of motivational processes. Part three of the book deals with the issues of self-regulation and self-determination; in the last two decades the problems of motivation can be hardly dealt with without touching these issues. The focus of the last part of the book is cultural context and cultural mediation of motivation. This book was planned not as a collection of discoveries to be considered, but rather as a collection of nontrivial views that may turn helpful for making a better sense of the discoveries actually made.Reemerging Perspective for the Psychology of Motivation.
From Drive To Need and Further: What is human motivation about?
The Existential Fundamental Motivations Structuring the Motivational Process.
Motivation, Future Time Perspective, and Vocational Planning Behavior.
Personal meaning as the basis of motivational processes.
Motivational competence: the joint effect of implicit and explicit motives on self-regulation and Flow Experience.
Why we do what we do: The Variety of Human Regulations.
The Motivational Nature of Good Living: What is Human Autonomy and Why is it Good for People and Societies?
Hardiness as the Existential Courage to Turn Stresses Into Growth Opportunities.
Personality Determinants of Subjective Well-Being in Old Age: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses.
Motivational foundations of learning: implications for the relational educational practice.
Motivational dialogue as the core of self-determination process.
Development of moral foundations of action: the role of the narrative function of language.
Flow experience in the internet-mediated environments.