Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition : Integrative Perspectives On Intellectual Functioning and Development

long-term adaptation may be disrupted by unexpected events, and short-term adaptation may be eased by prior planning and familia ...

fects of traits on objective performance are moderated by cognitive factors that are difficult to conceptualize in biological te ...

the cognitive segment. Some data explicitly link extraversion–introversion to intellectual performance. Several studies show tha ...

1995). Extraverts excel at behavioral tasks which mirror the cognitive de- mands of social encounters, such as speech production ...

The cognitive-adaptive framework for personality identifies individual differences in skills for real-world adaptation as a cent ...

within the adaptive triangle, shown in Fig. 6.3 (Matthews, 1999; Matthews et al., in press). The cognitive-adaptive model integr ...

Thus, whether one’s personality is extraverted or introverted represents an adaptive choice (though probably not a conscious cho ...

domains of cognition, emotion, and motivation. The emotional (e.g., state anxiety) and cognitive (e.g., intellectual impairment) ...

threatening, and readiness to use compensatory effort in advance of antici- pated danger. Evidence from studies of metacognition ...

Walsh, and Wilding (1996) found that neurotic insurance salespersons worked longer hours and closed more sales. Perhaps, disposi ...

ety may have the same factor structure as test anxiety (cf. Sarason & Sarason, 1990), being comprised of the following facet ...

negative, leading to cycles of self-preoccupation and worry. Thus both con- structs have been shown to relate to various biases ...

evading rather than confronting danger. The strategy may work well in terms of preempting and avoiding threats, but poorly when ...

types and levels of social engagement, beginning in infancy. Personality reflects these choices—whether to specialize for one or ...

tense emotion and worry are distinct elements of anxiety states, with differing behavioral correlates (Zeidner, 1998). The Cogni ...

2002). Two of these factors integrate aspects of emotion, cognition and moti- vation. Task engagement relates to energy (affect) ...

through their attempts at competent task performance. The person’s subjec- tive state may influence the efficiency and style of ...

p. 299). Adaptive coping requires a good fit between the person–environment transaction, the person’s appraisal of the transacti ...

1978; Zeidner & Saklofske, 1996). In performance contexts, we might have a general expectation that problem-focused strategi ...

appraisal variables, and coping variables were entered in successive steps (Matthews, Derryberry, et al., 2000). Substantial var ...