Achievement and Task-Related Motivation -- Delimiting and Integrating Achievement Motive and Goal Constructs -- How to Combine Intrinsic Task-Motivation with the Motivational Effects of the Instrumentality of Present Tasks for Future Goals -- The Role of Perceived Instrumentality in Student Motivation -- Experimentally Induced Effects of Goal Distance in Time on the Relations between Achievement Motives, Future Time Orientation and Indications of Performance in Sports -- Motivation, Performance and Satisfaction at School -- Teaching and Parenting Styles Related to Children's Achievement Motivation and Learning Outcomes -- Mapping the Domain of Autonomy Support -- A Model of Motivational Change in Transition Contexts -- Learning in Basic Electricity -- Goal Orientations and Action-Control Beliefs -- Motivation, Cognition, and Self-Regulation -- A Theory of Uncertainty Orientation -- Overcoming Defensive Feedback Seeking -- Changes in Task Orientation and Self-Evaluation Across Phases of a Transition -- A Functional Approach to Motivation -- Motivation, Information Processing and Performance -- Metacognitive Experiences in Problem Solving -- The Effects of General Success-Related Beliefs and Specific Metacognitive Experiences on Causal Attributions -- Optimism as a Moderator of the Effect of State Orientation on the Evaluation of Negative Life Events -- Genetic vs. Environmental Determinants of Traits, Motives, Self-Referential Cognitions, and Volitional Control in Old Age -- Motives, Personal Goals, and Life Satisfaction on Old Age.