Motivation and Emotions

Motivação e Emoções

Course code:9219211

Susana De Deus Tavares Monteiro

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

This Curricular Unit aims the conceptual, theoretical and practical definition of motivation and emotions, highlighting the instinctive or drives, homeostatic, emotional and cognitive motives as well as the basic and universal emotions. At the end of this course students should be able to describe and apply key concepts in different contexts (clinical, family, intra-individual, professional or academic, social ...).

Syllabus:

1. MOTIVATION
   Introduction.
   Historical background.
   Theories.
2. DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOTIVES
   Homeostatic.
   Instinctive.
   Emotional.
   Cognitive.
3. TYPES OF MOTIVATION
4. EMOTIONS AND STRESS
5. EMOTIONAL SELF-REGULATION
6. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
7. MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOR

Suggested Bibliography:

• Gross JJ (2007) Handbook of emotion regulation, New York: The Guilford Press
• Miller WR & Rollnick S (2012) Motivational interviewing: Helping people change, 3rd ed., New York: The Guilford Press
• Oettingen G & Gollwitzer PM (2015) Self-Regulation in Adolescence, New York: Cambridge University Press
• Reeve J (2014) Understanding motivation and emotion, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Tugade MM, Shiota MN & Kirby LD (2014) Handbook of Positive Emotions, New York: The Guilford Press