Over the last few decades, most personality psychology research has been focused on
assessing personality via scores on a few broad traits and investigating how these scores …

In this chapter, we present the theory of Personality Systems Interactions (PSI) as a
metaframework for analyzing the functional architecture of human motivation and personality …

Past research on situated expectancy-value theory has regularly provided evidence of
different motivational patterns indicating that not only can students be characterized by …

Individuals differ in their ability to initiate self-and emotional-control mechanisms. These
differences have been explicitly described in Kuhl's action-control theory. Although …

The goal is to test the validity of the “Will to exist-live and survive (WTELS) as a master
motivator that activates executive functions. A sample of 262 adults administered different …

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is a widely used
framework in rehabilitation that provides standardized measures to describe health and …

The person's agentic “Will to Exist/Live and Survive”(WTELS) is overlooked in the literature.
We proposed a measure as well as a conceptual predictive model for WTELS. The …

Interventions can foster personal growth. However, our understanding of the specific
mechanisms for change and the types of interventions driving this growth process remains …

Cognitive performance varies widely between individuals and is highly influenced by
structural and functional properties of the brain. In the past, neuroscientific research was …

Background: People differ in action vs. state orientation, that is, in the capacity for volitional
action control. Prior research has shown that people who are action-rather than state …