Essay On Motivation And Emotion

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Together, motivation and emotion move, trigger and help with the control of behaviour in humans. The part of emotion that allows us to feel has a motivational factor. It helps with achievements of our goals and to avoid what we don’t want. Motivation can also have an emotional force that activates the specific behaviour. Emotion can have the biggest control over motivation. Motivation is the self-control of being able to channel emotions to achieve a goal.Emotions can serve as motives. Emotions are feelings which can be related to mood. It is a state of consciousness. Emotion can be expressed through physical appearances such as facial expressions, body language and body gestures. Emotion forms part of personality and the personality then justifies the extent of the emotion felt. (Heine, 2009) Emotions have three major roles; preparation for action, organization of behavior and the interaction with other people. The three minor roles of emotions include; functional changes, expression of feelings and subjective feelings. Emotions are universal and the extent of how and when we feel is determined by the society in which we are raised in. (Pettinelli, 2008) The term “motivation” is used to …show more content…

Either the individual can feel a lack of achievement and disappointment, accepting how they look and not been willing to change it, or converting that disappointment into a positive attitude wanting change which will then provide the motivation for action to take place. Once the individual starts seeing results this will generate positive emotions which will increase motivation to continue working. The level of motivation will be dependent on how strong the feelings of emotions were. Every person has a different experience even when viewing the same event. Events on external stimulus that can affect a person’s emotional

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