Abstract Regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1997) has received growing attention in
organizational psychology, necessitating a quantitative review that synthesizes its effects on …

Interest is a powerful motivational process that energizes learning, guides academic and
career trajectories, and is essential to academic success. Interest is both a psychological …

Until recently, research examining the self-regulation of motivation focused primarily on the
strategies people use to bolster the amount of motivation they have for pursuing a task goal …

It has been evident for some time that the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS), a commonly
used measure of trait boredom, does not constitute a single scale. Factor analytic studies …

Boredom is a common experience that affects people on multiple levels, including their
thoughts, feelings, motivations, and actions. Not much research, however, has examined …

Purpose The paper aims at investigating the processes underlying the relationship between
transformational leadership and employee creativity. We hypothesized that promotion focus …

This article builds on existing models of motivation regulation in order to examine how
students identify and address motivational deficits (eg, not enough motivation or not the right …

By presenting and synthesizing findings on the character of boredom, the article advances a
theoretical account of the function of the state of boredom. The article argues that the state of …

Boredom is a ubiquitous human experience that can best be described as an inability to
engage with one's environment despite the motivation to do so. Boredom is perceived as a …

We formulated, tested, and supported, in 6 studies, a theoretical model according to which
individuals use nostalgia as a way to reinject meaningfulness in their lives when they …