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The Effect of Promoting Motivation through Effort-inducing Instructions and Positive Feedback on Task Performance

  • The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Abbr : KJSP
  • 2020, 17(3), pp.287-306
  • DOI : 10.16983/kjsp.2020.17.3.287
  • Publisher : The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > School / Educational Psychology
  • Received : August 31, 2020
  • Accepted : November 13, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Eunjin Kwon 1 Tae Hoon Kim 2 Lee, Yoonhyoung 1

1영남대학교
2경남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of motivation promotion on task performance. Unlike most previous studies that have used survey methods, this study examined the effects of motivation promotion on arithmetic and linguistic task performances under experimental conditions. Effort-inducing instructions and positive feedbacks were used to promote participants’ motivation. Experiments 1 and 2 examined the effect of effort-inducing instructions and positive feedback on participants’ autonomous selection of task difficulty when performing arithmetic and linguistic tasks. The results of the both experiments showed that the experimental group which received effort-inducing instructions and positive feedback chose more difficult task than the control group did. Experiment 3 examined whether motivation promotion enhances task performance and task persistence. The experimental group was more accurate and persistent than the control group. The results of the current study offer experimental evidence suggesting that activating intrinsic motivation through motivation promotion improves attitudes toward tasks and task performance.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.