Exploring the circumplex model of motivating and demotivating teaching styles: The role of teacher need satisfaction and need frustration

This study explored the relationships between teacher satisfaction/frustration of three basic psychological needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness, adoption motivating demotivating teaching styles. Nine hundred forty-nine Italian teachers filled in self-report questionnaires. The results showed that competence relatedness satisfaction were associated with participative, attuning, guiding, clarifying subareas. Although frustration was all subareas, only domineering abandoning Autonomy demanding, domineering, awaiting theoretical practical implications fostering teachers' style are discussed.