Challenge Orientation and Safety Orientation as Motivational Dispositions

• In Event: Poster Session 3
  In Poster Session: Motivation in Education SIG Poster Session 2

Abstract

We proposed and validated a new individual difference in learning and motivation, motivational dispositions: challenge and safety orientation. These motivational dispositions represent an individual variability in the underlying motivational neurological network determining behavioral and motivational reactivity toward external stimuli. In Study 1, we validated the motivational disposition scales by comparing them with the key existing scales in terms of their predictive roles. In Study 2, we conducted an experiment to demonstrate the associations between the motivational dispositions and individuals’ actual choice behaviors in learning situations.

Authors

• Minhye Lee, bMRI/Korea University

• Jeesoo Lee, Korea University

• Unkyung No, Korea University

• Johnmarshall Reeve, Korea University

• Mimi Bong, Korea University

• Sung-Il Kim, Korea University