Principia

Principia CC — Intrinsic Motivation

Principia (generated) · 2026 · Intrinsic Motivation — doing an activity for its inherent satisfaction rather than for external rewards

Principia CC Instrument · license CC0-1.0 · calibration pending
L1-generated (PRN-157): LLM-authored from construct + design rules + public-domain exemplars; passed the item-quality linter (≥B) + anti-derivative novelty gate. NOT yet empirically calibrated (PRN-158). Design-quality gated, not yet empirically validated — reliability and validity are earned from data. Pilot it via POST /api/v1/methods/item-calibration to calibrate.

Anatomy

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Fig. Principia CC — Intrinsic Motivation → its items → the construct(s) they measure. Click a construct to follow it.

Measures this construct

Items

Each item shows its design grade (item-quality linter) and keying. Discrimination/difficulty appear once the instrument is calibrated on pilot data.

  1. I enjoy activities just for the fun of it. grade A (positive-keyed)
  2. I often feel pressured to perform well in my tasks. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  3. I do things because I find them interesting. grade A (positive-keyed)
  4. I often seek rewards for my efforts. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  5. I lose track of time when I'm engaged in a task. grade A (positive-keyed)
  6. I usually need a reason to complete tasks. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  7. I feel satisfied when I learn something new. grade A (positive-keyed)
  8. I focus on outcomes rather than the experience itself. grade A (reverse-keyed)
  9. I find joy in the process of doing things. grade A (positive-keyed)
  10. I often feel unmotivated unless there’s a reward involved. grade B (reverse-keyed)
  11. I often get bored with activities that lack external goals. grade B (reverse-keyed)

Reliability & validity

Reliability
Not recorded
Validity
Not recorded

Items measuring this instrument

No canonical survey items linked to this instrument yet. Item-level dedup (PRN-050) derives canonical items from instruments that carry sample_items[]; coverage fills as the curator enriches instrument rows with item text.

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