TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Engagement, motivation, and persistence are usually associated with positive outcomes. However, too much of it can overtax our psychophysiological system and put it at risk. On the basis of a neuro-dynamic personality and self-regulation model, we explain the neurobehavioral mechanisms presumably underlying engagement and how engagement, when overtaxing the individual, becomes automatically inhibited for reasons of protection. We explain how different intensities and patterns of engagement may relate to personality traits such as Self-directedness, Conscientiousness, Drive for Reward, and Absorption, which we conceive of as functions or strategies of adaptive neurobehavioral systems. We describe how protective inhibitions and personality traits contribute to phenomena such as disengagement and increased effort-sense in chronic fatigue conditions, which often affect professions involving high socio-emotional interactions. By doing so we adduce evidence on hemispheric asymmetry of motivation, neuromodulation by dopamine, self-determination, task engagement, and physiological disengagement. Not least, we discuss educational implications of our model.
VL  - 19
SN  - 978-1-78635-474-7, 978-1-78635-473-0/0749-7423
DO  - 10.1108/S0749-742320160000019012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0749-742320160000019012
AU  - Tops Mattie
AU  - Montero-Marín Jesús
AU  - Quirin Markus
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Too Much of a Good Thing: A Neuro-Dynamic Personality Model Explaining Engagement and Its Protective Inhibition
T2  - Recent Developments in Neuroscience Research on Human Motivation
T3  - Advances in Motivation and Achievement
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 283
EP  - 319
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -