La intencionalidad de la acción en el proceso motivacional humano

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to analyze the role of intention as a unit of analysis that allows for the understanding and explanation of individual psychic functioning, which is manifested by way of the process known as intentional conditioning (Esteban-Guitart, 2013). It is argued that this individual psychic functioning of an intentional type is sustained on the formation of a subjective sense about action (González-Rey, 2010), and some hypotheses are formulated about the process that follows its formation across the different phases of the motivational cycle, according to empirical evidence from different sources. The differential aspect in this essay is that it takes the Rubicon model of action (Heckhausen & Gollwitzer, 1987) as the framework of analysis of the motivational process in order to specify the factors that, in each phase of the process, both in the properly motivational stage and in the volitional stage, underlie the formation of such subjective sense giving rise to the intention to act and maintaining the individual in the performance of the action until the expected goal is achieved. It is concluded that the subjective sense of those actions is constructed throughout the phases of the motivational cycle, hence assimilating and integrating into itself representations that are proper to a sense of usefulness, control, value, coherence, current reality, and future time, regarding a particular action.

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