Frontiers in Psychology
First steps toward a questionnaire of motivational awareness: preliminary development and psychometric examination
Across two studies, we conducted a preliminary psychometric examination of the newly developed Motivational Awareness Questionnaire (MAQ). Motivational awareness is the ability to consciously differentiate, verbalize, and analyze one’s own motivational states and use this knowledge for deliberate motivation and behavior regulation. Study 1 evaluated the initial MAQ in 142 students. The proposed five-factor structure was tested and not confirmed, necessitating exploratory revisions. Study 2 ( N = 102) reassessed a r …