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Jan 1, 2000 · Individual interest and intrinsic motivation do appear to describe similar outcomes. These include the enjoyment of focused and continued engagement in a task for the sake of the task itself, the pursuit of challenge, and the desire for mastery. For individual interest, these outcomes are linked to particular person–subject content relations.
- Individual Interest and Its Implications for Understanding Intrinsic Motivation
Individual interest, on the other hand, refers to an ongoing...
- A Study of Domain Learning
In Part II, specific changes in knowledge, interest, and...
- On The Self-Perception Explanation of The Overjustification Effect
Existing evidence consistent with a self-perception...
- Interestingness—A Neglected Variable in Discourse Processing
Renninger and Wozniak (1983) noted that although individual...
- Individual Differences in Interest and Narrative Writing
Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that individual...
- The Influence of Topic Knowledge, Domain Knowledge, and Interest on The Comprehension of Scientific Exposition
This supports our contention that passage ratings of...
- Individual Interest and Its Implications for Understanding Intrinsic Motivation
In this chapter, the author suggests that to understand individuals' motivation to learn about and engage in a particular activity on their own initiative (i.e., presumably intrinsically motivated behavior), one must focus on individual interest. Individual interest increases as knowledge and the accompanying value of the subject increases, and she suggests that it is individual interest that ...
- K. Ann Renninger
- 2000
research on individual interest is discussed as including both the stored knowledge and the value with which individuals re-engage classes of tasks (objects, ideas, and events) in their environment / the knowledge and value components of interest derive from what the individual brings to present action from prior experience with both objects and others / the present discussion focuses on ...
- K. Ann Renninger
- 1992
Oct 11, 2012 · Individual interest refers to a dynamic relationship between a person and a particular subject matter, which involves a psychological state of interest that can be pretty distinctive and a ...
Aug 2, 2017 · The dynamics of development through the phases from triggered situational interest through maintained situational interest , emerging individual interest , and well-developed individual interest as described by Renninger and Hidi assert that interest develops “through the interaction of the person and his or her environment” (2011, p. 170). It is the history of engagements and re ...
- Mary Ainley
- maryda@unimelb.edu.au
- 2017
Aug 14, 2016 · Interest can be constructed in terms of different levels of specificity and accordingly various types of interest have been identified by interest researchers. Among them, the most popular categorisations are situational interest and individual interest (e.g. Krapp et al. 1992; Hidi and Anderson 1992). At the specific state level is situational ...
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Jan 24, 2024 · This is why he named his school of psychology individual; the word is intended to evoke a meaning of indivisibility, derived from the Latin individuum (Mosak et al., 1999, p. 6). Alfred Adler’s Theory of Individual Psychology posits that individuals are motivated primarily by social interests and a striving for superiority or self-improvement.
