“Why don’t they participate?” Reasons for nonparticipation in adult learning and education from the viewpoint of self-determination theory

The study deals with the perceived reasons for nonparticipation in adult learning and education (ALE), drawing on existing research concerning motivation lifelong learning, attitudes towards education, of dispositional barriers. aim is to determine subjective reasons/motivation adults not participate ALE what factors influence their nonparticipation. For this purpose, we drew self-determination theory (SDT). Based that have created tool “Motivation Nonparticipation Scale” (MNP-S), which measures three factors: extrinsic motivation, intrinsic amotivation. empirical was conducted a representative sample (N = 943, age: 19 81 years) who had participated ALE. Contrary theoretical assumptions SDT, amotivated do predominate among nonparticipants, main based or motivations.