“Toward an Integrative Theory of Training Motivation: A Meta-Analytic Path Analysis of 20 Years of Research”, 2000 (; similar):
This article meta-analytically summarizes the literature on training motivation, its antecedents, and its relationships with training outcomes such as declarative knowledge, skill acquisition, and transfer.
Statistically-significant predictors of training motivation and outcomes included individual characteristics (eg. locus of control, conscientiousness, anxiety, age, cognitive ability, self-efficacy, valence, job involvement) and situational characteristics (eg. climate). Moreover, training motivation explained incremental variance in training outcomes beyond the effects of cognitive ability.
Meta-analytic path analyses further showed that the effects of personality, climate, and age on training outcomes were only partially mediated by self-efficacy, valence, and job involvement.
These findings are discussed in terms of their practical importance and their implications for an integrative theory of training motivation.