MOTIVATION, CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-REGULATION -- MOTIVATION, CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-REGULATION -- Contents -- Preface -- Reemerging Perspective for the Psychology of Motivation -- References -- Part 1. New Look at Fundamental Motivations -- From Drive to Need and Further: What Is Human Motivation about? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Prehistory of Psychological Theories of Motivation -- From Drive to Need -- Qualitative Distinction of Human Needs: From Cultural Anthropology to Cultural Historical Activity Theory -- Beyond Biological and Cultural Motivation: Discovering Existential Needs -- Back to Classification: Needs at Different Levels of Person-World Relationships -- Outlines of the Integrative Model -- Conclusion -- References -- The Existential Fundamental Motivations Structuring the Motivational Process -- Abstract -- Introduction: What Makes for Motivation? -- Frankl's "Will to Meaning" -- The Modern Quest for Meaning -- Existential Paradigm -- Existential Concept of Motivation -- The four Fundamental Conditions for a Fulfilling Existence -- 1. The World-Dealing with Conditions and Possibilities -- 2. Life-Dealing with Relationships and Emotions -- 3. Being a Person-Dealing with Uniqueness and Conscience -- 4. Meaning-Dealing with Becoming, Future and Commitment -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 2. Enriching Explanatory Models of Motivation -- Motivation, Future Time Perspective, and Vocational Planning Behavior -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Motivational Meaning of Future Time Perspective -- Nuttin's Cognitive-motivational Theory of Future Time Perspective -- Motivational Effects of Individual Differences in FTP -- Empirical Evidence -- The Organization of the Subjective Future and Career Planning Behavior -- The Temporal Logic of Vocational Projects in some Crucial Moments of the Life-span: Some Empirical Studies.

Future Time Perspective and Vocational Decision-making: An Exploratory Study of the Motivational Functioning in Critical Transitional Moments within the Portuguese Educational System -- Conclusion -- References -- Personal Meaning as the Basis of Motivational Processes -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Motivation, Motive, and Meaning -- Meaning in the Structure of Motivation -- Relational Theoryand Activity Theory Approaches to Motivation -- Attribution Schemesas Meaning Relations -- Conclusion -- References -- Motivational Competence: The Joint Effect of Implicit and Explicit Motives on Self-regulation and Flow Experience -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Implicit vs. Explicit Motives -- Striving for Motive-(in)congruent Goals -- Motivational Competence -- First Empirical Evidence: Motivational Competence and Flow -- Motivational Competence, Self-regulation, and Flow -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 3. Regulation and Self-determined Action -- why we do what we do: The Variety of Human Regulations -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Regulation as the Basic Explanatory Framework -- Evolution of Regulatory Principles and Human Nature -- The Issue of Ultimate Criteria -- Multiple Logics of Human Behavior -- Multiregulation Personality Model -- Conclusion -- References -- The Motivational Nature of Good Living: Human Autonomy and why it Is Good for People and Societies -- Abstract -- Conceptual Framework -- Social Conditions that Promote and Facilitate Optimal Motivation -- What Is Psychological Autonomy? -- Conceptual Clarification of the Term -- Symbolic Mental Representations as a Basis of Psychological Autonomy -- Self and Human Autonomy -- Culture and Human Autonomy -- Conclusion -- References -- Hardiness as the Existential Courage to Turn Stresses into Growth Opportunities -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Nature of Living.

Hardiness as Existential Courage -- Research on Hardiness as Existential Courage -- The Illinois Bell Telephone Project -- Subsequent Hardiness Research -- Comparative Analysis Studies -- Hardiness Training -- Conclusions -- References -- Personality Determinants of Subjective Well-Being in Old Age: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Concept of Subjective Well-being -- Personality Determinants of Subjective Well-being -- Personal Agency -- Motive Dispositions -- Coping -- Goals -- Health -- Method -- The Study -- Measures -- Subjective Well-being -- Life Satisfaction -- Affective Well-being -- Personal Agency -- Self-Efficacy -- Externality -- Hopelessness -- Motives -- Coping -- Goals -- Subjective Health -- Results -- Cross-Sectional Analyses -- Subjective Well-being -- Predictor Variables -- Predictors of Well-being -- Longitudinal Analyses -- Subjective Well-being -- Predictor Variables -- Predictors of Changes in Subjective Well-being -- Conclusions -- Personality Variables -- Subjective Well-being -- Predictors of Subjective Well-being -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Motivational Foundations of Learning: Implications for a Relational Educational Practice -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Nuttin's Critique of the Theoretical Law of Effect -- Discussions on Nuttin's Critique -- Methodological Innovations: The Deployment of Three Indicators of Selective Learning -- From the Relational Theory of Human Behavior to a Relational Model of Psycho-social Practice -- Toward a General Relational Model of Educational Practice -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 4. Cultural Mediation of Motivational Process -- Motivational Dialogue as the Core of the Self-determination Process -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Three Paradigms of Understanding Human Motivation.

Social Motivating Systems: Towards a Cultural-Historical Theory of Human Motivation -- Social and Cultural Motivating Systems -- The Structure of a Dispositif -- Cultural Development of a Child as His or Her Getting Implanted into Culture and Society -- Speech Influence as a Separate Motivational Force -- Motivational Dialogue as the Process of Determining the Course of Action -- Speaking and Being Spoken To -- Emerging of a Dialogue -- The Dostoevsky-Bakhtin's Conception of Dialogue and of Human 'Unfinalizability' -- Motivational Dialogue with other People -- Inner Motivational Dialogue as the Process of Self-determination -- Developing the Ability for Self-determination -- Conclusion -- References -- Development of Moral Foundations of Action: The Role of the Narrative Function of Language -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Reality that Can be Tampered with -- The T-mind and the TDT-mind -- The TDT-mind and Moral Development -- Testing the TDT-mind Theoryin Childrenin the Situation of a Free Moral Choice -- The Developmentof Moral Action in Children: A Summary -- References -- Flow Experience in Internet-mediated Environments -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Optimal Experience, also Known as Flow Experience -- Characteristics of Flow -- Data Collection Methods -- Flow Experience Studies Corresponding to the Particular Types of the Internet-mediated Environments -- Virtual Shopping -- Virtual Learning -- Computer/Video/Online Game Playing -- Interaction -- A Brief Description of the Author's Projects -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.