What are two ways in which cultural differences interact with the notion of motivation?
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Motivation is as intricate and abstract a concept as exists in the study of human behavior and psychology.
"Motivation is the collection of accounts of choices, intensities, and feelings of acts" (Edwards, 1999,p. 19.)
"[Motivation is] a concept that explains why people think and behave as they do" (Wlodkowski, 1999, p. 1.)
"It is the inner drive that, from birth, causes us all to act" (Cantor, 1992, p. 147.)
"[Motivation is] those processes that influence the arousal, strength, or direction of behavior" (Arkes, Garske, 1982, p. 3.)
"[Motivation is] an incentive, inducement, or motive, especially for an act" (Morris, 1970, p. 856.)
Common to each definition is the reference to a purposeful behavior or act. The concept of motivation seems to provide an answer to our question, "What makes us do the things we do?" Motivation is what has us to behave or act in specific, purposeful ways.
The concept of culture is a huge one. Separating human beings from their culture is impossible. The most obvious cultural characteristics are physical, including gender, skin color, race, and physical disability. But culture is much more deeply rooted than those surface factors. In Diversity and Motivation, Wlodkowki and Ginsberg describe culture as "the deeply learned confluence of language, values, beliefs, and behaviors that pervade every aspect of a person's life, and ...is continually undergoing minor changes" (Wlodkowski & Ginsberg, 1995, p. 7.) Because culture encompasses such a huge part of people, it plays a large and important role in the motivation of those same individuals.
THE INTERACTION OF CULTURE AND MOTIVATION
"We know that culture that deeply learned mix of language, beliefs, values, and behaviors that pervades every aspect of our ...
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