This chapter pursues three goals. First, it overviews selfdetermination theory (SDT). SDT is a macrotheory of motivation comprised of fi ve interrelated minitheories—basic needs theory, organismic integration theory, goal contents theory, cognitive evaluation theory, and causality orientations theory. Each minitheory was created to explain specifi c motivational phenomena and to address specifi...

Citation: Ünlü A (2016) Adjusting Potentially Confounded Scoring Protocols for Motivation Aggregation in Organismic Integration Theory: An Exemplification with the Relative Autonomy or Self-Determination Index. Front. Psychol. 7:272. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00272 Adjusting Potentially Confounded Scoring Protocols for Motivation Aggregation in Organismic Integration Theory: An Exemplification wi...

1. Cohomology theories: definition, examples including ordinary cohomology, K-theory and cobordism. 2. Products and operations: motivation, definitions and examples (especially K-theory). 3. New theories from old: splittings, Bousfield localization, formal group laws and the Landweber exact functor theorem. 4. Relationships between theories: some natural transformations, the chromatic viewpoint...

OBJECTIVE To assess health protection motivation as explained by the constructs of protection motivation theory (PMT) and its association with drug trafficking over 2 years. METHODS The sample included 817 African American youth (13-16 years old) participating in an adolescent risk-reduction program. We developed an instrument measuring the level of health protection motivation (LHPM) using f...

This paper presents a brief overview of empirical studies in school physical education (PE) that have employed SDT and, where relevant, proposes ideas for future research in this area. First, we review research on teachers’ interpersonal style and its relation to students’ motivation. Second, we discuss intervention studies aimed at optimizing teachers’ interactions with students. Third, we pre...

This article explores the topics of motivation and self-regulation in the context of weight management and related behaviors. We focus on the role of a qualitative approach to address motivation--not only considering the level but also type of motivation--in weight control and related behaviors. We critically discuss the operationalization of motivation in current weight control programs, prese...

Although research on team motivation has been one of the fastest growing research domains in organizational science, progress in this domain has been hampered by a lack of integrative reviews. Thus, we develop a theoretical framework in this article to summarize and discuss different conceptual approaches to team motivation for the following six content areas: team design, team needs, team goal...

the literature on language teaching and learning has mostly accentuated motivation as one of the crucial factors influencing learners, but demotivating factors can be of crucial importance as well. in this vein, considering a grounded theory approach, this study has tried to investigate the demotivating factors influencing iranian university students of non-english majors utilizing an interview...