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The main factors underlying the participants' motivation to learn English were instrumentality (promotion and prevention regulatory focus) and international posture.
“it is clear that the main factors underlying the participants' motivation to learn English were instrumentality, understood both in terms of a promotion (i.e., concerned with hopes, aspirations and accomplishments) and prevention (i.e., related to avoidance of negative outcomes) regulatory focus (Higgins, 1998), and international posture.”
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- Authors
- Higgins, E. T.
- Corresponding author
- Higgins, E. Tory
- ORCID
- Higgins, E. Tory
- Venue
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 1-46
- ISSN
- 0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1709698377
- Cited by
- 3,511
- References
- 5
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- FWCI
- 58.74
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Human Behavior and Motivation
- Keywords
- regulatory focus, promotion focus, prevention focus, hedonic motivation, pleasure and pain, self-regulation, motivation, goal regulation
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