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Compounds are units of meaning formed with two or more words. The words are usually written separately, but some may be hyphenated or be written as one word. Often the meaning of the compound can be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individual words. It is not always simple to detach collocations and compounds. car park; post office; narrow ...
Older women make up the largest percentage of inactive people for health reasons. A study was conducted to explain the factors behind low motivation in older women. This study was made up of 37 elderly women with a mean age of 80. Low motivation to exercise and be healthy has been noted to be caused by internal factors such as old age.
The characteristics of a goal make it possible to determine what motivates people to achieve a goal, and, along with other personal characteristics, may predict goal achievement. [ citation needed ] Importance is determined by a goal's attractiveness, intensity, relevance, priority, and sign.
Effort is the physical and mental energy invested when exercising an ability. [35] It depends on motivation and high motivation is associated with high effort. [36] The quality of the resulting performance depends on the ability, effort, and motivation. [32] Motivation to perform an action can be present even if the action is not executed.
When a person makes an effort to walk more, even for short periods, there are a whole host of benefits, studies have found. Micro-walking refers to short walks sprinkled throughout the day.
In psychology, grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on a person's perseverance of effort combined with their passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective). This perseverance of effort helps people overcome obstacles or challenges to accomplishment and drives people to achieve.
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. [1] It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, [ 2 ] according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.
"Fred makes a stirling effort". How do you spell stirling/sterling/sturling in this context? What does it actually mean in this context? I cannot find such an entry in the Consise OED or in Wiktionary or in the penguin reference dictionary. Help appreciated. -- SGBailey 13:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)