The Intrinsic Motivation of Japanese School Children

In the last chapter the distinction was drawn between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. It was argued that extrinsic motivation is exceptionally strong in Japanese school children because the external incentives which generate this form of motivation are themselves so powerful. In the present chapter we turn to intrinsic motivation, the motivation to work well in order to satisfy some internal value, standard or need. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.