As climate mitigation is not the focal goal of consumers who are buying or consuming food, the study highlighted the role of motivational and cognitive background factors, including possible spillover effects.
A favorite computer desktop background, motivational poster and film setting, Santorini and its chalk-white buildings crowned with blue domes are a feast for the eyes.
Furthermore, the student perception of school climate is based on student background and motivational factors, and quality and consistency of interpersonal interactions within the school community (Haynes et al., 1997).
Thus, the present study is the first to relate student competence development to motivational regulation (against the background of self-determination theory) and their academic self-concept, and to consider the effects of the three basic dimensions of instructional quality in accounting.
Thus, a primary reinforcer confers motivational value to contextual background via Pavlovian conditioning, and the motivational value then "spills over" to the explicit stimuli occurring in this background.
The intervention is based on the elicit-provide-elicit framework, which has its background in motivational interviewing and which has been refined for use in primary care[ 26].
The intervention staff received extensive training in the delivery of the intervention protocol including theoretical background and motivational counseling principles, nutritional and exercise aspects of the intervention, practical strategies to facilitate behavior change, and group management skills.
The aim was to compare the expected car use reduction in response to the different TDM measures, the car use reduction strategies used to achieve this reduction, and factors important for the expected car use reduction (i.e. background factors, internal motivational factors (general intention and personal norm), and perceived personal impact of the measure).
To achieve this goal, staff learns how to use communication and interaction techniques able to encourage residents to be more active (e.g. positivity, motivational interviewing; see also conceptual background above).
All the background noise of America — motivational speakers, positive prayer, the new Journal of Happiness Studies — these are not the markers of happy, well-adjusted psyches uncorrupted by irony, as I have always been led to believe.
