Motivational characteristics are influential in shaping adolescents' desire to persist in sport or to discontinue their sport participation. Self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000) was utilized as the theoretical framework for this study. This theory examines whether sustained participatory involvement, defined as continued participation in the sport through the next year, was influenced ...

BACKGROUND The physical activity (PA) levels of many children and adolescents in Australia are currently insufficient to promote health benefits. Physical education (PE) programs aim to promote PA and reach nearly all school-aged children, but PA levels within PE lessons are often low. PE teachers may influence children's motivation to be physically active in PE lessons, but little is known abo...

The satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as defined in Self-Determination Theory, has been identified as an important predictor of individuals’ optimal functioning in various life domains. The study of work-related need satisfaction seems, however, hampered by the lack of a validated measure. To assist future research, the present study aimed ...

The field of self-access language learning (SALL), which is an established way supporting learners outside the classroom through provision resources and spaces, spans more than five decades currently in a phase that Mynard (2019a) refers to as ‘basic psychological needs wellbeing’ phase. This turning point SALL wherein focus has shifted towards need for (more explicitly) facilitating autonomy-s...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention entitled A-Judo Programme for reduction in bullying and improvement prosocial behaviour at school, based on theory self-determination (SDT). Physical education teachers (PETs) received 20 h specific training, implementing programme thereafter their classes a total 10 sessions 50 min each (two per week over 5 weeks). Variables suc...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Motivation in China Autonomous motivation for learning Autonomy-supportive teaching Self-determination theory Two studies applied self-determination theory (SDT) to investigate the motivation for learning of rural Chinese children. The aim was to test whether findings from studies in western individualist cultures would hold up within a very different, eastern co...

The aim of this paper is to examine how verbal rewards (praise) from superior public managers influence subordinate managers’ work motivation coming experiencing tasks as important, exciting, interesting, and fun, so-called autonomous motivation. We use self-determination theory (SDT) theorize that depending on they are provided, can enhance or undermine This because different reward practices ...

Despite the centrality of motivation for all learning, few studies have examined effectiveness online language teacher education (OLTE) programmes within a psychological framework. This explorative study seeks to address this gap by evaluating two semesters OLTE course German teachers in Norwegian context. The was developed students’ innate needs autonomy, competence and relatedness framework s...