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Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between employees' chronological age and their motivation to learn, by adopting a lifespan perspective. Based on socioemotional selectivity theory, [the authors] suggest that occupational future time perspective mediates the relationship between age and motivation to learn. In accordance with expectancy-value and self-efficacy theories, motivation to learn was operationalized as employees' learning motivational beliefs (i.e., learning self-efficacy and learning value). To test [this] model, survey data were obtained from... [+] Show more
Subjects: Teaching and learning; Employment; Research; Demographics
Keywords: Learning motivation; Older worker; Employees; Survey; Age; Attitude
Geographic subjects: Belgium; Europe
Published: Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2017
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