This study investigated professional empowerment of junior middle school teachers in Taiwan, compared the difference on the sense of autonomy in background variables, and explored the extent to which professional power explained professional efficacy, using questionnaire method. The results showed that (1) the sense of professional empowerment of junior middle school teachers was on the middle ...

Because parents of children with cerebral palsy encounter many challenges, the quality their parenting varies substantially across time. To understand how and why behaviors change time, we examined contributions child behavior parents’ psychological needs to explanations yearly variation in responsive, autonomy-supportive, psychologically controlling parenting. We also explored whether motivati...

According to self-determination theory, when the social context is autonomy supportive, people are motivated to internalize the regulation of important activities, and whereas when the context is controlling, self-determined motivation is undermined. A model that incorporates perceptions of coaches’ interpersonal behaviors (autonomy support vs. control), 5 forms of regulation (intrinsic motivat...

The current study investigated the relationship between organizational safety climate and perceived organizational support. Additionally, it examined the relationship with job satisfaction, worker compliance with safety management policies, and accident frequency. Safety climate and supportive perceptions were assessed with Hayes, Perander, Smecko, et al. 's (1998) and Eisenberger, Fasolo and L...

Here, we conducted the first study to explore how motivations expressed through speech are processed in real-time. Participants listened to sentences spoken in two types of well-studied motivational tones (autonomy-supportive and controlling), or a neutral tone of voice. To examine this, listeners were presented with sentences that either signaled motivations through prosody (tone of voice) and...

In any given learning context, there are constraints on the development of learner autonomy. However, this does not mean that developing autonomy is not feasible. In this paper, I firstly describe student passivity in Bachelor of Arts Graduation Paper (BAGP) writing in a four-year BA Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) program in a Chinese teachers’ university. I then present how stud...