The Relationship between Motivation and Emotion
Sally Duran-Juarez
Bryant and Stratton
PSYC101
4/17/2014
Abstract
Motivation and emotion go hand in hand; they are interlinked and influence each other to a great extent. The question many ask is how? Well, it’s simple really, let’s see what motivation and emotion are defined as individually. Motivation is the x-factor that drives you to achieve your goal. With motivation, you know what you want and why you want it. All you need to do is to go about finding ways to utilize your motivation to reach your goals. Motivation explains why in any action taken by you. Psychologists have agreed that it is driven by a need or a want that gets molded into behavior that is goal specific, and that the need is then given direction. (Gorman, 2004.) Emotion, we understand emotions better when we describe them as feelings. We feel emotions, and they are physically expressed via tears, laughter, anger, melancholy, or violence to name just a few. Psychologists feel that emotion stems from perception, and is then brought about due to a hormonal response to this perception. Emotion involves four factors that are integrated as parts of a syndrome. These four factors are tendency to act, bodily, or physical reaction, cognitive appraisals, and expressive movements. Feelings and motivation work in tandem to help us reach our goals. At the same time there are instances when emotion does not need to have an objective to exist, unlike motivation which is completely goal orientated.
The Relationship between Motivation and Emotion
Ever wonder why some people seem to be very successful, highly motivated individuals? Where does the energy, the drive, or the direction come from? Motivation is an area of psychology that has gotten a great deal of emotion, especially in the recent years. The reason is we all want direction and drive, and we all want to be seen as motivated. What is emotion? A feeling? Then what is a feeling? These...