Self Determination Theory (SDT) predicts that employees who use extrinsic motivation to search for work are less successful and subsequently experience lower psychological wellbeing than their counterparts who use intrinsic motivation. Using Australian labour market data, we find strong support for SDT. We find that workers who hold casual employment or who are underemployed (i.e. who have extr...

This article describes research on parenting that supports children’s need for autonomy. First, the authors define parental autonomy support and distinguish it from permissiveness or independence promotion. The authors also define psychologically controlling parenting and distinguish it from bevavioral control (structure). Second, the authors present studies examining how parental autonomy supp...

Thousands of proteins need to do their job in the right places at the right time for any cell to function properly. Sometimes, gene mutation prevent one or more of these proteins from working properly. By change in gene instruction, in protein making, a mutation can cause the protein to malfunction or to be missing completely. This may cause severe medical conditions. Any kind of treatment requ...

RATIONALE In the current social climate, breastfeeding is regarded as the "gold standard" of babies' nutrition and optimal mothering. It is not surprising, therefore, that the vast majority of contemporary women begin breastfeeding after they give birth. OBJECTIVE This paper presents two separate quantitative studies conducted in Israel which examined breastfeeding motivation and its associat...