Given the importance of student engagement for educational success, it is essential to explore how teachers can stimulate in online learning environment. However, relatively little research drawing from self-determination theory has examined links between teaching motivations and engagement. To this end, study was conducted survey 414 Chinese college students’ perceptions motivations, their own...

This study set out to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between EFL teachers' emotional intelligence, reflectivity, and autonomy, and their students' L2 performance. The participants of this study included 88 EFL teachers who taught English at different private English teaching institutes and their students (N = 1266). First, the teachers completed three validated questionnaires: E...

Professional paper Previous research and commentary has underscored the importance of providing support for autonomy and promote physical and psychological well-being amongst exercisers and athletes. Autonomy support concerns the degree to which actions perceived to emanate from significant others which are supportive of individual choices, recognize the difficulty of behavioral change, and eng...

Using basic psychological needs theory (BPNT; Ryan & Deci, 2000) as our guiding framework, we explored cultural differences in the relationships among physical education students' perceptions of teacher autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, subjective vitality and effort in class. Seven hundred and fifteen students (age range from 13 to 15 years) from the U.K. and Hong Kong, China,...

We examined (a) whether motivational orientation can spread from teachers to students during two consecutive teaching-learning sessions and (b) mechanisms underlying this phenomenon in a special physical education session delivered to high school students. Participants who were taught a sport activity by an allegedly paid instructor reported lower interest in learning and exhibited less persist...

Objectives: Grounded in the self-determination and achievement goal frameworks [Ames, C. (1992). Achievement goals, motivational climate, and motivational processes. In G. C. Roberts (Ed.), Motivation in sports and exercise (pp. 161–176). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics; Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). The ‘what’ and ‘why’ of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behaviour. ...

aim and background: psychological climate perceptions have received considerable attention in the organizational literature and have been used to predict a variety of important individual and organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction, burnout, job involvement, organizational citizenship behavior, psychological empowerment, job control and job performance. the aim of this study was to inv...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This article examines two questions concerning teacher-behaviours that are characterised in Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) as autonomy-supportive or suppressive: (1) Can children differentiate among various types of autonomy-enhancing and suppressing teacher behaviours? (2) Which of those types of behaviour are particularly important in predicting feelings tow...