Two Levels of Motivation and Two Types of Well-Being: Relations Between General and Goal-Specific Motivations, and Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-Being

In this thesis I assess the individual and joint predictive associations and effects between multiple motivation and well-being concepts. In particular, three pairs of motivation concepts (intrinsic/extrinsic, approach/avoidance, and eudaimonic/hedonic) are assessed simultaneously at two levels of analysis (disposition and goal) and examined in relation to two types of well-being (eudaimonic and hedonic) in two studies, one correlational and the other experimental. Study 1: Using a correlational design, participants (N = 325, M age = 19.10, 87% female) completed self-report measures assessing six motivation and two well-being concepts. Exploratory factor analyses were used to assess patterns of associations among the motivational constructs. Results indicated that constructs displaying conceptual and empirical similarities co-occur, particularly, intrinsic, approach and eudaimonic motivation. Regression models were used to assess predictive relations between the motivational constructs and well-being. Both types of well-being were predicted by approach and avoidance dispositions, and hedonic goals. Additionally, eudaimonic well-being was uniquely predicted by eudaimonic dispositions and goals, and intrinsic dispositions; and hedonic well-being was uniquely predicted by extrinsic dispositions and approach goals. The patterns of associations among motivational constructs, and similarities and differences in the ways they predict each type of well-being, are discussed. Study 2: Using an experimental design, participants (N = 447, M age = 19.30, 88% female) were randomly assigned to one of eight experimental conditions, each involving a manipulation aimed at priming combinations of the three pairs of motivational constructs at the goal level. Participants then completed measures of both types of well-being. ANOVAs were used to assess the main effects and interactions of experimental condition for each of the three pairs of motivational constructs on well-being. Main effects of experimental conditions were non-significant. However, results indicated that focus on each of the three pairs of motivational constructs predicted well-being and that the manipulation impacted well-being indirectly, through experimentally-shifted motivational focus. Few interactions emerged. Implications for future experimental research and the conceptual integration of motivation and well-being constructs are discussed. In conclusion, Studies 1 and 2 inform the motivation and well-being fields in novel ways and provide preliminary steps towards studying these fields from an integrated and comprehensive motivational framework.

List of Prices Totalling 7 Pounds 55 Pence

List of prices totaling 7 pounds, 55 pence [no indication what this list refers to] Sept. 15, 1848.

List of Names and Prices Signed by Albert W. Sampson

List of names and prices signed by Albert W. Sampson, n.d.

List of prices paid to Dr. Richard King from Dilly Coleman

List of prices paid to Dr. Richard King from Dilly Coleman in regard to items such as flour and a live hog which were sold to Dr. King by Mr. Coleman and medical treatment and medicines for Dilly and his family provided by Dr. King. Samuel Woodruff’s name appears on the outside of this list, n.d.

List of prices paid to Dilly Coleman by Doctor Richard .S. King for the board and feeding of a horse

List (2 pages, handwritten) of prices paid to Dilly Coleman by Doctor Richard .S. King for the board and feeding of a horse. There is a handwritten note on the inner page regarding instructions for feeding the horse, Sept. 1850.

Schedule of prices for Brown and McDonell, contractors, for sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Port Dalhousie Thorold Railway

Schedule of prices for Brown and McDonell, contractors, for sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Port Dalhousie Thorold Railway (1 page, handwritten), Sept. 24, 1856.

Prices of John Brown’s contracts for Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway from Geneva Street to Thorold Station

Prices of John Brown’s contracts for Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway from Geneva Street to Thorold Station (1 page, handwritten), n.d.

Note from the Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway to Mrs. E. Parnell with prices for digging a well, moving a hog pen and repairing a fence

Note from the Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway to Mrs. E. Parnell with prices for digging a well, moving a hog pen and repairing a fence, n.d.

Letter regarding prices for the excavation to S.D. Woodruff from Dexter Deverardo

Letter regarding prices for the excavation to S.D. Woodruff from Dexter Deverardo, Feb. 22, 1856.

Estimate of dredging prices

Estimate of dredging prices, July 14, 1854.

List of prices for items such as furniture, curtains, pictures, carpets and glassware

List of prices (2 pages, handwritten) for items such as furniture, curtains, pictures, carpets and glassware. This is embossed with the Welland Canal stamp, Dec. 1855.

Note regarding cut glass prices

Note regarding cut glass prices, n.d.

List of prices of furniture from Burnhill McEwan

List of prices of furniture from Burnhill McEwan, n.d.

List of prices of furniture from Burnhill McEwan on printed blank

List of prices of furniture from Burnhill McEwan on printed blank, Sept. 15, 1876.