01551nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001800118653002000136653002400156653001600180653002500196653003200221100001600253700002600269245012600295300001200421490000600433520085400439022001401293020001401307       1999                            d  c07/1999bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aSelf-efficacy10aincentive value10apersonal competence10amood states10aintrinsic motivation10aperceived autonomic arousal1 aAntoni Sanz1 aFrancisco Villamarín00aSelf-efficacy, incentive value and personal competence: effects on mood state, intrinsic motivation and perceived arousal  a145-1600 v53 aIn this paper we describe results of an experiment drawn in order to examine effects of two experimentally manipulated specific cognitions (self-efficacy and incentive value) and a non-specific cognition (personal competence) on mood state, intrinsic motivation and perceived autonomic arousal. Results show that a) the bigger the self-efficacy, the lower the increases in negative mood states (fatigue, anxiety, and sadness- anger), and the bigger the task intrinsic motivation; b) major effects of self-efficacy on mood state and autonomic arousal are conditioned to high incentive value; c) personal competence modulates the effects both self-efficacy on intrinsic motivation and incentive value on perceived autonomic arousal; and d) perceived autonomic arousal is positively linked to negative mood states but not to real physiological changes.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437