Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, DC, 20024, USA.
Research and Development Department, Leading Indicator Systems, One Franklin Street, Boston, MA, 02110, USA.
BMC Psychol. 2023 Oct 6;11(1):308. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01346-5.
A unified model of human motivation has been recently introduced that integrates all prior "mini-theories" of motivation into a single, symmetrical model based on first principles: four life domains crossed by three levels of attainment, resulting in 12 discrete motivations. Evidence from a series of studies using a novel image-based method is used to test structural hypotheses derived from a unified model of human motivation.
The studies employ large samples (810n to 986n) of working adults who conducted a time-constrained image-based exercise to measure the relative presence or absence of different emotional needs.
These studies provide support for the theoretical model, suggesting that there is substantial heuristic and practical value in a structured framework of motivating needs.
Findings suggest that our theoretical model reflects deep interrelationships between discrete types of human motivation, and by linking specific measures to a comprehensive model of human motivation, researchers can have confidence that they have adequately measured the motivation construct.
最近提出了一种统一的人类动机模型,该模型将所有先前的“动机微观理论”整合到一个基于第一性原理的单一、对称模型中:四个生活领域与三个实现层次交叉,产生 12 种离散的动机。使用一种新颖的基于图像的方法进行的一系列研究的证据用于测试源自人类动机统一模型的结构假设。
这些研究采用了大量(810n 到 986n)在职成年人的样本,他们进行了限时基于图像的练习,以衡量不同情感需求的相对存在或不存在。
这些研究为理论模型提供了支持,表明在动机需求的结构化框架中有实质性的启发式和实用价值。
研究结果表明,我们的理论模型反映了离散类型的人类动机之间的深层相互关系,通过将特定的测量方法与人类动机的综合模型联系起来,研究人员可以有信心他们已经充分测量了动机结构。