Question

What do you mean by positive and negative motivation?

Answer 1

positive and negative motivation

Positive motivation is the type of motivation a person feels when he expects a certain reward. An example of Positive motivation is when a father tells his sun, "if you studied well and got high grades i will buy you the new play station".

Negative motivation is the type of feeling a person gets when he expects punishment. An Example of negative motivation could be telling your child "if you didn't study, i wont let you travel this summer"

The difference between positive and negative motivation

Both positive and negative motivation could lead to the same result however on the long run the overuse of negative motivation may result in problems like hating the person who uses it against you. For example a boss who always uses negative motivation to motivate his employees is most likely going to be hated.

So The difference between positive and negative motivation is that positive motivation doesn't have side effects on the long run while negative motivation may have some.