Intrinsic motivation and psychological stress.
- 1 March 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 58 (2) , 225-233
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0043112
Abstract
"Three issues were explored experimentally in this study...the proposition that the arousal of a state of stress depends upon intrinsic motive states in the individual as well as the nature of the stressor conditions...the proposal...that stress would tend to improve sensory-motor output and impair conceptual performance on the basis of different amounts of interference... the importance of the S''s past history of success or failure in a particular motivational direction in determining whether a stress state would be aroused." 15 refs.Keywords
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