Toward an integrative theory of training motivation: A meta-analytic path analysis of 20 years of research.
2000/01/01 by Jason A. Colquitt, Jeffery A. LePine, Jeffrey A. LePine +1 · 2,039 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Medicine · Psychology · #Big Five personality traits #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Conscientiousness #Developmental psychology #Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Locus of control #Medical Education and Admissions #Meta-analysis #Path analysis (statistics) #Personality #Psychology #Self-efficacy #Situational ethics #Social psychology #Valence (chemistry)
paper · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.85.5.678
published in Journal of Applied Psychology 85(5), 678-707 (American Psychological Association)
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Abstract
This article meta-analytically summarizes the literature on training motivation, its antecedents, and its relationships with training outcomes such as declarative knowledge, skill acquisition, and transfer. Significant predictors of training motivation and outcomes included individual characteristics (e.g., locus of control, conscientiousness, anxiety, age, cognitive ability, self-efficacy, valence, job involvement) and situational characteristics (e.g., climate). Moreover, training motivation explained incremental variance in training outcomes beyond the effects of cognitive ability. Meta-analytic path analyses further showed that the effects of personality, climate, and age on training outcomes were only partially mediated by self-efficacy, valence, and job involvement. These findings are discussed in terms of their practical significance and their implications for an integrative theory of training motivation.
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