"Motivation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.
| Descriptor ID |
D009042
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.658 F01.752.543.500.750
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Motivation".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Motivation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Motivation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1997 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2005 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2006 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2009 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2010 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2011 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2012 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 2013 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2014 | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| 2015 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2016 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2018 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2019 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2020 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2021 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2022 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2023 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Motivation" by people in Profiles.
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Shaver DE, Viveiros JD, Hunter Revell S, Devine CA. Understanding How Nurse Faculty Advisors Perceive Voluntary Attrition Among 4-Year Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Students: A Qualitative Descriptive Study. Nurs Educ Perspect. 2026 May-Jun 01; 47(3):147-153.
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Folta SC, Burch J, Alcusky M, Ash AS, Hager K, Terranova J, Zhang FF, O'Flaherty A, Anyanwu O, Mozaffarian D. Why patients stay in or leave a medically tailored meals program: a qualitative study. Front Public Health. 2026; 14:1737511.
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Flynn E, Tai R, Watts V GJ, Rosen MP. Funding and Incentives for Resident Education in an Era of Radiologist Shortages, Increasing Workload, and Financial Constraints. J Am Coll Radiol. 2026 02; 23(2):197-204.
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Kamberi A, Weitz B, Flahive J, Eve J, Najjar R, Liaghat T, Ford D, Lindenauer P, Person S, Houston TK, Gauvey-Kern ME, Lobien J, Sadasivam RS, Balakrishnan K. Testing a Machine Learning-Based Adaptive Motivational System for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Smokers (Adapt2Quit): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 04 16; 14:e63693.
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Liu J, Lee DN, Stevens EM. Motivations for Tobacco, Cannabis, and Their Co-Use Among U.S. Young Adults Who Engage in Same-Day Co-Use. Subst Use Misuse. 2025; 60(4):515-521.
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Stevens EM, Lee DN, Stevens H, Sadasivam RS. The role of mood in shaping reactions to smoking cessation messages among adults who smoke: a multimodal investigation. BMC Public Health. 2024 10 18; 24(1):2872.
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Zimet D, McDuff D, Iannone VN, Moser RP. Elite athletes' subjective wellbeing trajectories throughout the retirement transition: an analysis using Ruthven's (2022) transition model. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2024 05; 36(3):272-283.
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Capan M, Bigelow L, Kathuria Y, Paluch A, Chung J. Analysis of multi-level barriers to physical activity among nursing students using regularized regression. PLoS One. 2024; 19(5):e0304214.
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Sanghavi D, Alley D. Transforming Population Health - ARPA-H's New Program Targeting Broken Incentives. N Engl J Med. 2024 01 25; 390(4):295-298.
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Heelan-Fancher L, Moore Simas TA, Mazzawi J, Dumont T, Edmonds JK. Nulliparous Women's Expectations and Experiences of Early Labor. MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs. 2024 Jan-Feb 01; 49(1):22-28.