Vtyurina

Identificator

EDN: SOAQYT ; УДК: 316.628

Authors

Vtyurina Tatyana Anatolyevna, senior lecturer of the Department of Psychology, Vyatka State University. Russia, Kirov. ORCID: 0000-0002-5006-362X. E-mail: vttanja@gmail.com

Journal

HERALD OF VYATKA STATE UNIVERSITY №2 (156), 2025

Section

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pages

103-116

Abstract

The article presents the results of a theoretical and empirical study of mental representations of motivation. The significance of the study of mental representations of motivation in connection with the logic of the development of scientific knowledge, the challenges of a crisis world and the development of social practices is shown. The work is carried out in the context of the scientific school of psychology of knowledge in the field of psychology, addressed to the study of the phenomenology and patterns of cognition of mental phenomena and their displays. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the content and structure of mental representations of motivation in scientific and everyday consciousness. The object of the empirical study of mental representations of motivation in the scientific consciousness was 39 definitions of the concept of "motivation" presented in textbooks, teaching aids and monographs on psychology. The sample of the study consisted of 360 respondents, divided into two groups. The main group for the study of mental representations of motivation in everyday consciousness was represented by 180 non-psychology students. To test the hypothesis that professional psychological training changes mental representations of motivation, a comparison group was formed, which included 180 psychology students. The empirical study was carried out on the basis of the Vyatka State Humanitarian University (currently "Vyatka State University"). The research methods were the method of defining the concept, free associative experiment, drawing method, content analysis method, expert assessment method. As a result of the study, a basic set of categories representing motivation in scientific and everyday consciousness was identified: formal (Integrity, Dynamics), functional (Energy, Influence), status (Carrier of motivation, Object of motivation), reflexive (Interpretation). A significant result was the identification and description of similarities and differences in the core-peripheral structure of mental representations of motivation in scientific and everyday consciousness. It is shown that professional psychological training at a university changes the content and structure of mental representations of motivation in everyday consciousness.

Keywords

mental representations motivation scientific consciousness everyday consciousness professional psychological training psychology students non-psychology students motivation management personality subjectivity

Recieved

02.09.2025

Published

14.04.2026

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