The article raises the problem of university students' academic failure. results an empirical study aimed at studying features learning activity style, self-organisation processes, motivation, personal meaning for academically unsuccessful students are presented. involved 32 2nd and 3rd courses technical university. Research methods: T.O. Gordeeva’s “Scale motivation”, N.A. Kopeyna’s questionna...

This study was a preliminarily investigation into the prevention of unintentional doping on the basis of self-determination theory (SDT). Specifically, we examined the relationship between athletes' motives for doping avoidance and their behavior when offered an unfamiliar food product. Participants were young Australian athletes (n = 410) that were offered a free lollipop prior to completing a...

BACKGROUND/AIM To examine the associations between parents' motivation to exercise and intention to engage in family-based activity with their own and their child's physical activity. METHODS Cross-sectional data from 1067 parent-child pairs (76.1% mother-child); children were aged 5-6 years. Parents reported their exercise motivation (ie, intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, introjec...

Personality traits and motivation have been predictive of athletic success. Conscientiousness, intrinsic motivation (IM), and extrinsic motivation (EM) positively predict sport performance, while amotivation (AM) has a negative impact. This study examined the effects of both sport motivation and conscientiousness on athletic performance. Methods included a cross-sectional survey study of endura...

This study seeks to provide some comprehensive information on EFL students’ learned helplessness when learning English, by exploring the causal relationship between three variables: failure to learn English, personality traits and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. Eighteen students and two English teachers participated in this study with a gatekeeper’s consent. This was done mainly through focus ...

Purpose : Grounded in self-determination theory, this study examined gender latent mean differences students’ perceptions of externally and internally controlling teaching behaviors, basic psychological need frustration, controlled motivation, amotivation, oppositional defiance the physical education context. Moreover, it analyzed differentiated role that internal external behaviors play on the...

Workers’ motivations and the work–family relationship are two subjects that have been capturing attention of researchers practitioners. However, to date, little is known about link between subjects. Thus, this research aimed investigate relationships among each type motivation conceptualized in self-determination theory conflict, enrichment, balance. In addition, current study intended Work–fam...

BACKGROUND Providing care for adolescents with type 1 diabetes is complex, demanding, and often unsuccessful. Guided self-determination (GSD) is a life skills approach that has been proven effective in caring for adults with type 1 diabetes. To improve care, GSD was revised for adolescents, their parents, and interdisciplinary healthcare providers (HCP) to create GSD-Youth (GSD-Y). We evaluated...

This research investigated the impact of motivations on work–home enrichment experience among male Saudi academics working in universities. Drawing self-determination theory (SDT) and conservation resources (COR), study employed a quantitative with data collected from 460 men. The analysis revealed that intrinsic motivation extrinsic reinforced by material pressure were significantly positively...