## Motivation profile for "Karen"
"Karen's motivation profile: PMS1, PMS2, PMS3, C2D2
Motivational profiles for individual student 'Karen'. The following are the motivational profiles for each of the students mentioned: (PM) Preparation Mastery Scale score 1-5; and (MP) Motivation Profiles.
(PM1) In this case, Karen's motivational profile is based on her performance on the preparation mastery scale. Accordingly to this scale, Karen scored 5/5 points in preparation mastery level one. Her motivations are further categorized as "PM1-Behavioral goals". These are behavioral goals that are achievable at this stage of Karen's life. Her main motivation is to become financially stable and secure in her life; hence, the implementation of this motivation is to be primarily realized through work. Her preparation mastery level one is "PM1-Behavioral Goals (Work)" and her motivational profile for this level is "MP1-Behavioral Goals (work)". In addition, there was a 0/5 points in preparation mastery level two. According to Karen, wherein she explain that she does not have any work-related goals at the moment for the time being – even though she has always been interested about what she can eventually do if she does not have any commitments with her employers.
(PM2) Karen's motivational profile is based on her performance on preparation mastery scale. She scored 5 points in preparation mastery level two. Her motivational profile for this level is "MP2-Risk Habit" and her main motivation is to secure a steady income source and have an adequate budget to be able to live a comfortable life without worries, taking into account the amount of money she receives from her habituated allowance money which she receives every month. Achieving this goal has its own challenges because at the moment, Karen does not know how she can be financially secure or how much she would be able to save at all because of her inadequate financial knowledge which very few people possess now a days.
(PM3) In this case, Karen's motivational profile is based on her performance on preparation mastery scale. She scored 5 points in preparation mastery level three. Her motivational profile for this level is "MP3-Religious or spiritual" and her main motivation is to seek for spiritual and moral guidance in order to submit herself to God because she believes that He will make everything work out in her life for her good. She also believes that it will help her a lot when she seeks for fulfillment of her desires by seeking the help of God. The importance of spirituality has always been a big part of Karen's life since she was young where she grew up in a Christian family where religion played an important role socially, emotionally, and morally wise. This level is particularly challenging for Karen because she thinks that she still does not know much about herself. Hence, Karen needs a sense of fulfillment which she hopes to achieve through her spirituality.
(PMS)
In this case, Karen's performance on preparation mastery scale is 12/20 and the sum score of 103%. The following are preparation mastery scale scores for: work (7/10), situation (2/5), social influence (2/5), and learning (4/5).
Motivational Profile on Performance Mastery Scale:
"MP1-Lifestyle Goals (Work)"
This motivating profile is based on her performance on the preparation mastery scale where she scored 5 points in this level. Her motivational profile for this level is "PMS3-Competition" and her main motivation is to be competitive in her work, take part in competitions for the sake of reaching high scores, and get awards and recognition. According to Karen, she has received awards before but it was not as big as she expected. She desperately wants one day to achieve such honors that will be recognized by other people and be able to place them above others – even though she has not achieved anything yet for herself.
Motivational Profile on Performance Mastery Scale:
"MP2-Risk Habit" This motivational profile is based on her performance on the preparation mastery scale where she scored 0 points in this level. Her motivational profile for this level is "PMS3-Competition" and her main motivation is to take risks in order to achieve higher scores in competition, achieving awards and recognition which will be recognized by other people and he/she will be envied by other people. She wants to achieve a competitive advantage over others because she thinks that she can always do better than those around her – even though she has not been able to yet due to her limited knowledge and expertise of what she could do if the competition was stiffer. She is determined to be number one in every game she plays even though she has not been able to achieve that for a long time now.
Motivational Profile on Performance Mastery Scale:
"MP3-Religious or Spiritual" This motivational profile is based on her performance on the preparation mastery scale where she scored 0 points in this level. Her motivational profile for this level is "PMS3-Competition" and her main motivation is to be competitive in winning competitions, take part in competitions for the sake of reaching high scores, and get awards and recognition. Karen believes that if she tries hard, she will eventually not only receive awards but also become a winner. She would then be able to live a comfortable life without worrying about any money. She wanted to be a winner even before competition started because she believed that it was possible for her to achieve such goal.
Motivational Profile on Performance Mastery Scale:
"MP4-Social Influence" This motivational profile is based on her performance on the preparation mastery scale where she scored 2 points in this level. Her motivational profile for this level is "PMS3-Competition" and her main motivation is to be competitive in winning competitions, take part in competitions for the sake of reaching high scores, and get awards and recognition which will be recognized by other people. She wishes to achieve success in social functions by always being the best as compared to her friends. This way, she would be able to become popular.
Motivational Profile on Performance Mastery Scale:
"PM4-MP1-Lifestyle Goals (Work)" This motivating profile is based on her performance on the preparation mastery scale where she scored 9 points in this level. Her motivational profile for this level is "PMS4-Social Influence" and her main motivation is to be competitive in winning competitions, taking part in competitions for the sake of reaching high scores, and get awards and recognition which will be recognized by other people. She would need a higher income to achieve this goal.
Motivational Profile on Performance Mastery Scale:
"PM5-MP2-Risk Habit" This motivating profile is based on her performance on the preparation mastery scale where she scored 0 points in this level.
Conclusion:
According to Karen, she would still stick to her performance mastery scale even though it is not what she wanted because it has more points. For Karen, if the competition is really stiff and people are already in international competitions, then she will aim for preparation mastery scale instead. She will try hard to score above 50% because for her this indicates that she could possibly seek for coaching by experts who know what they're doing and since this is a competition, there's no room for failure unless they're within the 50%. Karen thinks that she would be able to maintain close contact with other players from the same pool of players and see how others trained as well just so that she could score higher than them.