Ms AS Nkoe
Student number: 45252726
PYC 3716
Semester 1: Assignment 01
Unique Assignment No 684609
2. Motivations listed in Akintola (2011) :
Values: satisfying humanitarian obligation to help others or showing empathy
for others;
Community: concern for and worry about community;
Career: seeking career-related benefits/connections, skills or experience;
Protective: reducing negative feelings about oneself;
Understanding: desire to better understand how to help others in society or
exercise skills that are unused;
Enhancement: desire to feel better about oneself or be needed by others;
Reciprocity: attracting good things to oneself;
Recognition: needing recognition of one’s skills and contribution;
Reactivity: addressing own current or past issues; and
Social: meeting the expectation of or getting the approval of significant others
The motivation that top my list in order is as follows:
Understanding: desire to better understand how to help others in society or
exercise skills that are unused
Values: satisfying humanitarian obligation to help others or showing empathy
for others;
Community: concern for and worry about community
Career: seeking career-related benefits/connections, skills or experience;
Enhancement: desire to feel better about oneself or be needed by others;
Reciprocity: attracting good things to oneself;
Recognition: needing recognition of one’s skills and contribution;
Reactivity: addressing own current or past issues; and
Social: meeting the expectation of or getting the approval of significant others
Protective: reducing negative feelings about oneself;
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Student number: 45252726
PYC 3716
Semester 1: Assignment 01
Unique Assignment No 684609
2. Motivations listed in Akintola (2011) :
Values: satisfying humanitarian obligation to help others or showing empathy
for others;
Community: concern for and worry about community;
Career: seeking career-related benefits/connections, skills or experience;
Protective: reducing negative feelings about oneself;
Understanding: desire to better understand how to help others in society or
exercise skills that are unused;
Enhancement: desire to feel better about oneself or be needed by others;
Reciprocity: attracting good things to oneself;
Recognition: needing recognition of one’s skills and contribution;
Reactivity: addressing own current or past issues; and
Social: meeting the expectation of or getting the approval of significant others
The motivation that top my list in order is as follows:
Understanding: desire to better understand how to help others in society or
exercise skills that are unused
Values: satisfying humanitarian obligation to help others or showing empathy
for others;
Community: concern for and worry about community
Career: seeking career-related benefits/connections, skills or experience;
Enhancement: desire to feel better about oneself or be needed by others;
Reciprocity: attracting good things to oneself;
Recognition: needing recognition of one’s skills and contribution;
Reactivity: addressing own current or past issues; and
Social: meeting the expectation of or getting the approval of significant others
Protective: reducing negative feelings about oneself;
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