nature of motivation

• conscious motivation


  are motivations that are willful and we are proud of this we can provide rationale and an explanation
• unconscious motivation


  are motivations that we are not aware of and we don’t have an understanding of them

  ›           we question why they did or said that these behaviors may be a result of repressed fears, anxieties, and latent hostilities

  ›           Freud and Jung would say these actions are from the unconscious level of awareness
• internal locus control


  a person may manifest negative behavior caused by himself
• external locus control

  relates the negative behavior to the poor living environment or due to alcoholism, abuse or drug addiction of the parent