PSB_532 Experimental seminar for procrastinators

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tatiana Malatincová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 12:30–14:05 C31
Prerequisites
SOUHLAS
The course is designed for students who tend to procrastinate and see this as an important barrier in their self-realization. Students should agree to participate in research, which should help to improve the program of interventions. Course PSB_531 Motivation of Action and Inaction recommended for theoretical background.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course should help the student understand their working motivation dynamics and regulation strategies better, and to find and hone their own effective regulatory skills, so that the students feel they make better use of their time. The main focus, however, is on one's own motivation analysis.
Syllabus
  • The students will keep a brief "journal of daily activities" which should help them perceive time and physical and metal energy as depletable resources. At the same time, it should help them see in what circumstances their regulation fails, as well as the meaning of activities they engage in when they are not working. The main focus areas are: Motivational aspects of activity, result of activity, deadlines, and procrastination itself. Identification of possible motivation conflicts. Perception and enhancement of one's autonomy. Overcoming irrational frameworks. Understanding one's limits. Sources of regulation aversion and resistance. Diverting attention from non-self-determinated regulatory factors. Regulation types. Learned helpessness in self-regulation. Ways to work one's "regulatory biceps". Re-framing tasks to enhance self-regulated intrinsic motivation.
Literature
  • Handbook of personality and self-regulation. Edited by Rick H. Hoyle. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, xiv, 528. ISBN 9781405177122. info
  • HECKHAUSEN, Jutta and Heinz HECKHAUSEN. Motivation and action. 1st ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 508 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-85259-3. info
  • Handbook of self-regulation : research, theory, and applications. Edited by Roy F. Baumeister - Kathleen D. Vohs. New York: Guilford Press, 2004, xv, 574. ISBN 1572309911. URL info
  • Handbook of self-determination research. Edited by Edward L. Deci - Richard M. Ryan. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002, x, 470. ISBN 1580461085. info
  • REEVE, Johnmarshall. Understanding motivation and emotion. 3rd ed. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001, xxi, 585. ISBN 0155080563. info
Teaching methods
Group sessions. The students will keep a "journal of daily activities". In the sessions students will discuss what motivates them and the factors that undermine their motivation, trying to find the most critical points for intervention and analyzing the motivational meaning of different aspect of the situation. The program of interventions will utilize various regulatory enhancement techniques aiming to initiate a change in one's working habits (un-focusing deadlines; automatization; implementation intentions; working time restriction; "unschedule"; etc.).
Assessment methods
Colloqium - the students should work out their own motivation dynamics profile.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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