BACKGROUND The National Institute of Clinical Excellence in the UK has recommended that the effectiveness of ongoing exercise referral schemes to promote physical activity should be examined in research trials. Recent empirical evidence in health care and physical activity promotion contexts provides a foundation for testing the utility of a Self Determination Theory (SDT)-based exercise referr...

Empirical studies have validated that basic needs satisfaction supported by video game play predicts motivation and engagement outcomes. However, few studies specifically manipulated game features for each of the three basic needs specified in the selfdetermination theory (SDT) to examine how the game features impact players’ need satisfaction and game experience. The current study employed an ...

Labor productivity is an important aspect of the construction industry, and motivation believed to be influential factor that affects it. While previous studies have emphasized role controlled (i.e., external factors), autonomous internal factors) has been ignored. This knowledge gap hampers further efforts explore new determinants increase labor (CLP). Accordingly, self-determination theory (S...

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 ...

Objectives: This study tested the generalizability of basic needs theory (BNT; Deci & Ryan, 2000) across situations in which dancers learn and perform within vocational dance. Specifically, we examined the inter-relationships between daily and typical perceptions of autonomy support, basic psychological need satisfaction, and changes in affective states, across dance situations that were diverg...

PURPOSE To conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of different mentoring interventions on the basic psychological need satisfaction of underrepresented minorities and women in academia. METHOD Participants were 150 mentor/protégé dyads from three academic medical centers and eight other colleges and universities in western and central New York, randomized from 2010 to 2...

A previous randomized clinical trial based on self-determination theory (SDT) and consistent with the Public Health Service (PHS) Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence demonstrated that an intensive intervention could change autonomous self-regulation and perceived competence, which in part facilitated long-term tobacco abstinence. The current article describes a pragmatic comparati...

Several studies have identified a work environment that promotes inclusiveness as significant predictor of affiliative organizational citizenship behavior or OCB (such helping), whereas not much research has focused on inclusion and challenging (i.e., voice). Moreover, no previous explored the above-mentioned relationship in light self-determination theory (SDT), given social exchange tradition...

The teacher’s instructions in physical education class have important implications for the psychological well-being of their students. aim this study was to analyze, under postulates Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a model with following sequence: perception quality (task presentation, amount corrective feedback, and its legitimate perception) generated by teacher, satisfaction three basic nee...