Psychology of achievement motivation

The manual is devoted to modern foreign theories of motivation for achievement, practically not presented to the present in Russian. The main attention is paid to the consideration of a sociocognitive approach. The book analyzes and summarizes new theoretical concepts and experimental data, which have become scientific use in recent decades of the rapid development of the psychology of motivation. The problems of internal and external motivation, goals and goal -setting, perseverance, attributes of success and failures, pessimistic and optimistic styles of explanation, patterns of response to failure, as well as mental health, depression, etc. are considered. The book also presents the author’s integrative model of motivation for achievement activities