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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"autonomous motivation"”.
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An Investigation Of The Association Between Physical Self Perceptions, Autonomous Motivation, And Fitness Education Strategies
… the relationships between relative autonomy (autonomous versus controlled motivation), engagement in physical activity in a physical education class, and health-related fitness test scores. Participants were a total of 300 students drawn from grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 from a local Midwestern …
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The Effects of Autonomous Motivation and Implementation Planning on Dietary Goal Adherence Among Personal Training Clients
… shows that the quality of an individual’s motivation may play a role in goal success, and that implementation planning may be an effective goal adherence promotion strategy for those with autonomous motivation. However, little is known regarding this relationship between type of motivation, …
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An investigation of the structural relationships among employee autonomous motivation, job performance, and satisfaction at international hotel chains in China
… of, the structural relationships among employee autonomous motivation, job performance, and satisfaction at international hotel chains in China. In order to achieve the research aims of the study, the author employed mixed methods. Firstly, a total of 31 interviews were conducted to provide …
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What motivates transformational leaders? On the relationship between leaders’ satisfaction of basic psychological needs and transformational leadership
… addresses the scarcity of studies exploring the motivational antecedents of transformational leadership, which focuses on developing followers for extraordinary performance. Grounded in the Self-Determination Theory, I propose that leaders' psychological needs satisfaction is associated with …
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Patient Centered Care Approach to Adherence with Cardiovascular Medications: Self-Determination Theory Integration
… needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomous motivation. Patients were surveyed once before discharged from the hospital and once three months post discharge.</p> <p><em>Results</em>. The SDT motivation variables (perceived competence, perceived autonomous support and autonomous …
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Motivation and Social Factors Associated with Exercise Fidelity in a Basketball Neuromuscular Training Prevention Warm-up in Youth
… fidelity and to understand the influence of motivational and social factors, in the basketball context, on exercise fidelity to the SHRed Injuries Basketball Neuromuscular warm-up program in youth. Methods: First, an inter-rater reliability study for the evaluation of exercise fidelity by an …
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Measuring Purposeful Engagement in Leader Self-Development: A Scale Validation and Pathway to Leader Adaptability
… process of purposeful engagement comprised of autonomous motivation and self-regulation. To validate a scale of leader self-development and test its ability to predict leader adaptability, I conducted four studies that built on one another. The first study utilized a panel of experts to …
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The Attitudinal and Motivational Consequences of Personality Differences in Teams
… team members’ satisfaction with the team and autonomous motivation. The potential role of psychological need fulfillment as a mediator of the relation between personality congruence and these outcomes was also considered. Multilevel polynomial regression with response surface analysis provided …
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Examination of self-determination theory constructs as mediators of the effect of motivational interviewing on tobacco cessation outcomes
… abundance of evidence supporting the efficacy of motivational interviewing for health behavior change, little is known about how it works. This study conducted a secondary analysis of autonomous motivation as a mediator of motivational interviewing’s effects in a recently completed randomized …
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What Does That Piece of Paper Really Mean? An Inquiry Into Certification Motivation
… the relationship between certification-seeking motivation and obtaining certification, perceived job competence, and affective occupational commitment. Hierarchical regression results show an association between autonomous motivation and both obtaining certification and commitment; however, …
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Mindfulness: A Personal Resource in Organizational Change
… as a personal resource for employee well-being, motivation, and retention during organizational change. In the initial pilot study, organizational change vignettes were developed and tested to assess their ability to induce various levels of change uncertainty. A sample of 161 U.S.-based …
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An exploration of SDT need fulfillment in a synchronous online learning environment
… an individual experiences impact their motivation, development, and wellness. An individual who experiences sociocultural conditions that satisfy their needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness will develop autonomous motivation. As course instruction moves online, it is important …
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Role of Inspiration in Increasing Situational Motivation in Male Team Athletes
Motivation and inspiration are often used superficially and synonymously in media coverage of sport. Sportscasters and reporters speculate about athlete motivation cite inspirational locker room speeches from coaches as a motivational source. Research in and out of sport psychology has developed …
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The Big X of Leadership: A Functional Approach to Understand Different Ways to Lead
… requirements for maximizing followers’ autonomous motivation, as each fulfills a distinct basic psychological need rooted in Self-Determination Theory. A multimethod approach – a meta-analysis, a five-month longitudinal field study, an episodic leader-follower conversation, and a …
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Agency Development of Preservice Teachers Progressing Through an Undergraduate Education Program
… may provide the connections one needs to build autonomous motivation to continue in the profession.</p>
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Motivating adult learners: development and validation of the Self-Determined Motivations for Sexual Learning Scale (MSL)
… no empirically supported tool to measure motivation specifically for sexual learning. Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), the purpose of this study is to develop and validate the Self-Determined Motivations for Sexual Learning scale (MSL) designed to assess adults’ motivations for …
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Multiple perspectives on dynamics of participation and learning in sustainable farming initiatives
… reveal the importance of (i) the farmers’ autonomous motivation to participate, (ii) an environment that meets the farmers’ basic needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness, (iii) the complementary organization of group and individual farmer learning activities, (iv) the historical …
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Factors Associated with Initiation of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Rural Heart Failure Patients
… gain insight into rural heart failure patients’ motivation to partake in exercise. A purposive sample of rural heart failure patients were used for the study. Patients were selected from a rural hospital based upon their ejection fraction, per Medicare requirements. Participants completed a …
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Teacher career motivation and professional development in special and inclusive education in China
… literature that relates teachers' career motivation to their attitudes towards special and inclusive education and their motivation for professional development in China. A mixed-method approach was used to investigate teachers' perspectives on their professional life in this respect. A …
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Evaluation of Creature -101: Can A Curriculum Based Serious Health Game Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Middle School Students?
… outcome expectation-social and physical, autonomous motivation). The Creature-101 game uses social cognitive and self-determination theories as framework and incorporates "creature care" in a virtual world "Tween". Students learn scientific evidence that promote energy balance by playing …
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