Mental Energy: Assessing the Motivation Dimension.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Barbuto, Jr., John E.
- Source
- Nutrition Reviews. Jul2006 Part 2, Vol. 64 Issue 7, pS14-S16. 3p.
- Subject
- *MOTIVATION (Psychology)
*DECISION making
*MENTAL efficiency
*COGNITION
*COGNITIVE ability
*MOOD (Psychology)
*LIFE sciences
*PSYCHOLOGY
*COGNITIVE consistency
- Language
- ISSN
- 0029-6643
The article focuses on the three-dimensional model of mental energy to its implications for measuring motivation. The model includes motivation, cognition, and mood. Mental energy has begun to evolve into a more parsimonious construct that will benefit from increased research attention through efforts sponsored by the North American Branch of the International Life Sciences Institute. To describe the motivation-inducement process was the purpose of most process-based motivation theories. Process theories are those which describe the motivation process and try to prescribe general interventions to induce human motivation process models. Decision-making theories present the cognitive process behind motivation. Theories which equate human motivation with exertion of effort are Sustained-effort theories.