This study showed, in line with self-determination theory, that glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes (n = 2866) was strongly associated with perceived self-care competence, which in turn was associated with autonomous motivation and autonomy-supportive health-care climate. These associations remained after adjusting for the effect of important life-context factors. Autonomous mo...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects an autonomy-supportive classroom climate on intrinsic motivation in mixed-grade classes. A total 398 children (eight twelve years old) a Japanese elementary school participated questionnaire with two measurement occasions. Path analysis revealed that perceived related active participation structure, which, turn, motivation. were mediated by s...

Flow experience plays a major role in influencing students’ interest of STEM, which is the key to promote STEM talent development. Various teaching behaviors contribute differently student learning performance and flow experience. Specifically, this research sought concretely explore different influences Autonomy-supportive (AS) behavior Controlling (C) on The conducted an experimental explorat...

BACKGROUND Web-based health behavior change interventions may be more effective if they offer autonomy-supportive communication facilitating the internalization of motivation for health behavior change. Yet, at this moment no validated tools exist to assess user-perceived autonomy-support of such interventions. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop and validate the virtual climate ca...

This study examined teachers’ experience of autonomous motivation for teaching and its correlates in teachers and students. It was hypothesized that teachers would perceive various motivations posited by E. L. Deci and R. M. Ryan’s (2000) self-determination theory as falling along a continuum of autonomous motivation for teaching. Autonomous motivation for teaching was predicted to be associate...

Purpose – The introduction of New Public Management in the German system of higher education raises issues of the academics’ motivation to do research and to teach. The purpose of this paper is to present evidence-based findings about contextual factors which influence intrinsic and related modes of internalized teaching motivation in German higher education institutions. The paper discusses pa...

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative communication style used to promote individuals’ motivation, and there growing support for using MI in schools. This study aims test whether teacher-focused intervention program based on autonomy-supportive teaching increases teachers’ teaching, teacher efficacy students’ academic motivation perceptions of autonomy support. In this with short-te...