OBJECTIVE Provider communication that supports patient autonomy has been associated with numerous positive patient outcomes. However, to date, no research has examined the relationship between perceived provider communication style and patient-assessed decision quality in breast cancer. METHODS Using a population-based sample of women with localized breast cancer, we assessed patient percepti...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To date, no research has investigated how the organizational climate of aged care influences the self-efficacy of staff in caring for residents with dementia, or, how self-efficacy is associated with the strain experienced by staff. This study sought to investigate the extent to which the self-efficacy of aged care staff mediates the association between organizational clima...

This study examined the effect of autonomy support and autonomous self-regulation on self-reported weight loss. Participants reported significantly greater weight loss when they perceived their family and friends as autonomy supportive of their weight loss efforts. Autonomy support from family and friends was also shown to moderate the effects of an experimental intervention that was delivered ...

There is increasing academic and policy interest in interventions aiming to promote young people's health by ensuring that the school environment supports healthy behaviours. The purpose of this review was to summarize the current evidence on school-based policy, physical and social-environmental influences on adolescent physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Electronic databases were searc...

Today leaders are more like employee supporters than employee supervisors. Creating intentionally supportive and motivating environment, demonstrating concern for employees’ well being, providing opportunities for autonomy support, avoiding rewards that actually decrease motivation and performance in the workplace for employee to be creative and innovative is part of modern leadership. The aim ...

Background It is desirable that (more) children continue swimming after having completed their lessons to preserve skills and water safety, as part of an active, healthy lifestyle. This may be encouraged by stirring children's intrinsic motivation for during lessons. However, it currently unknown how intrinsically motivating are in Western countries. Purpose study examined what extent instructo...

Learner autonomy has been described as the ultimate objective in many language teaching programs since the third quarter of the twentieth century and educators have highlighted the significant role of promoting learner autonomy in the process of language learning and teaching. However, only limited number of studies has been awarded to what leaner autonomy mean to teachers. This study addressed...

Does the perception of many close relationships as autonomy-supportive make students more motivated and competent? The goal of this study was to use latent class analysis (LCA) to compare the educational correlates of having one vs. several autonomy-supportive relationships. Participants were 1406 high school students (47% boys, 52% girls). LCA revealed three groups: Group 1 (17%) included stud...

This paper describes a quantitative study that explores both the degree of preservice teachers’ (PSTs) motivation and achievement, dimensions need-supportive teaching, when PSTs were involved in designing implementing contextualized physical cooperative challenges (CPCCs) primary schools. The analysis was based on PSTs’ perceptions teaching (namely autonomy support, structure, involvement), mot...