Medical resident education in the United States has been a matter of national priority for decades, exemplified initially through the Liaison Committee for Graduate Medical Education and then superseded by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. A recent Special Report in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, has described resident educational programs to date as presc...

Background and Purpose: Using self-determination theory as an analytical framework, the present study investigated the influence of coaching behaviors in handball on different types of motivation of the players. As several authors have outlined the importance of the coach as a social factor which has an influence on motivation and its mediators, the three main goals of the study were to (1) ana...

0360-1315/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.06.001 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +47 32117210. E-mail address: [email protected] (Ø. Søre Based on self-determination theory, this study proposes an extended information systems continuance theory in the context of teachers’ utilization of e-learning technology in connection with on-site courses. In the propos...

Three studies were conducted with the goal to articulate and test models for integrating the concept of motivation to reduce uncertainty into the axiomatic structure of uncertainty reduction theory. Multiple models were considered, each model defining motivation to reduce uncertainty in a different way. Motivation to reduce uncertainty was dtfined as a scope condition (Model 2), as tolerance fo...

We explored healthcare-related experiences of women drug court participants through combining context from the socio-ecological model with motivation needs for health behavior as indicated by self-determination theory. Five focus groups with 8 women drug court participants, 8 court staff, and 9 community service providers were examined using qualitative framework analysis. Themes emerged across...

Distinct types of collective intelligence are prominent over different countries. This study explores why some types of collective intelligence knowledge services flourish in some countries but not in others by employing an analogy related to Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This study uses geographical isolation theory and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory (such as the uncertainty avoidance i...

The present anticipation of future goals creates instrumental motivation for immediate actions that are expected to be instrumental for achieving those future goals. Instrumental motivation is however by definition extrinsic motivation. Based on empirical research in educational settings, it is commonly argued that extrinsic motivation is of lower quality than intrinsic motivation. More recent ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to test the relationship between intrinsic motivation and work performance among individuals from a broad cross-section of job types among public employees with the objectives of contributing to self-determination theory and assisting public management practice and research. Design/methodology/approach – Respondents were drawn from three municipalities lo...

1 Using self-determination theory to understand motivation for walking: Instrument development and model testing using Bayesian structural equation modeling Manuscript accepted 17.11.15 Psychology of Sport and Exercise Niven, A.G., & Markland, D. (2016). Using self-determination theory to understand motivation for walking: Instrument development and model testing using Bayesian structural equat...

Kenrick et al. (2010, this issue) make an important contribution by presenting a theory of human needs within an evolutionary framework. In our opinion, however, this framework bypasses the human uniqueness that Maslow intended to capture in his theory. We comment on the unique power of culture in shaping human motivation at the phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and proximate levels. We note that cult...