scholarly journals Identifying Health Motivations among Emerging Adult in China through Self-Determination Theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Min AN ◽  
Li Ping LI ◽  
Ming Xia JI ◽  
Ping Ying LI ◽  
Tao HUANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Common Risk Factors

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese. Objectives: College students in China experience unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, drinking, sleep disorders, and sedentary lifestyles, which are common risk factors of chronic diseases. Lifestyle has a profound impact on one’s health. The researchers tried to explore and delineate college students’ motivations for a healthy lifestyle. Methods: 93 undergraduate students (59 males and 34 females; mean age 21.2 years) were interviewed. Verbatim transcripts were analyzed using a theory-directed approach following Self-Determination Theory (SDT). Results: Participants reported five types of health motivation that broadly fall under SDT: absence of motive, external, introjected, identified, and integrated. Sources for motivation identified included health literacy, the environment, and social relationships. Conclusions: Health practitioners in colleges in China should be sensitive to different types of motivation and factors that influence college students’ goals of practicing healthy lifestyles. Effective intervention programs for improving the motivation of college students should address issues related to perceived locus of causality. 目標：中國大學生存在如吸煙，酗酒，睡眠不規律，久坐等不健康的行為方式，這些行為方式是慢性疾病的常見風險因素。 生活方式對一個人的健康產生深遠的影響。在本研究中，研究者試圖探索和描述中國大學生選擇健康生活方式的動機。方法：共訪談了93名本科大學生(其中男性59名，女性34名，平均年齡21.2歲)，並以自我決定理論為依據，對訪談記錄文本進行分析。 結果：參與者大致報告了自我決定理論所描述的五類動機：即缺失的、外部的、攝入的、認同的和整合的等。健康動機的來源大致包括健康素養、環境因素和社會關係。結論：大學的健康實踐者應對影響大學生健康行為的五類不同的動機水準保持敏感，有效的以提高健康動機為目的的教育項目應著重解決因果關係感覺軌跡中的有關問題。

Antecedents of parental psychological control: A narrative review grounded in Self-Determination Theory perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Sebastiano Costa ◽  
Francesca Liga ◽  
Maria Cristina Gugliandolo ◽  
Simona Sireno ◽  
Rosalba Larcan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Parental Psychological Control ◽  
Parental Characteristics ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Control Construct

Self-determination theory has become a consolidated theoretical framework to deepen the psychological control construct. Numerous studies have widely investigated the consequences of the use of this parenting strategy during the life cycle. Although studies focused on the antecedents of parental psychological control are not so numerous, they provide an interesting picture that needs to be systematized and organized. For this reason, this narra-tive review was aimed at describing the studies on the antecedents of psychological control that used SDT as a theoretical framework. These studies were structured according to three categories: Parental Characteristics (or pressure from within), Child Characteristics (pres-sure from below), and Family Social Environment Characteristics (pressure from above). The results highlighted a wealth of studies in each category and indicating the need to con-tinue this line of studies in the future through the integration of the different types of ante-cedents too.

scholarly journals Validation Study in the Educational Context of the Portuguese Version of the Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lurdes Neves ◽  
Joaquim Luís Coimbra
Keyword(s):  
Work Motivation ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
The North ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Motivation Scale ◽  
Item Scale ◽  
Multidimensional Concept ◽  
Broad Understanding

Abstrac The self-determination theory proposes a multidimensional concept of motivation and distinguishes how different types of motivation can be promoted or discouraged. For the application of the theory of self-determination to the educational context, this study aimed to adapt and validate the Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale (MWMS) in the educational context. The scale was answered by 419 teachers from 30 schools from the North and Center of Portugal. Factor analysis indicated that the 19-item scale has the same factor structure as that obtained in the original study. In this study, it was possible to identify that the items that constitute the MWMS are good indicators of constructs to be measured in an educational context and the factors are properly individualized. The scale showed five robust dimensions that permit a broad understanding of motivation, similar to the studies of the original scale. The dimension with the best internal consistency is demotivation, while introjected regulation obtained the lowest coefficient.

scholarly journals Why Do Chinese College Students Learn ESP: An Analysis of Language Learning Motivations within SDT Framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangxing Liu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Learning English

<p>This study mainly investigates the motivational characteristics of Chinese college students learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). By critically examining and comparing Gardner’s (1985) Integrative-Instrumental model and the Self-determination Theory (SDT) by Deci and Ryan(1985), the researcher finds out that the latter one is more comprehensive and applicable to the case of Chinese college ESP learners (the subjects). Thus the researcher develops a questionnaire within the SDT framework to analyze the subjects’ motivations. Drawing upon a follow-up statistical analysis, the research discovers the motivational propensities of the subjects. A discussion of corresponding motivational methods to help improve the subjects’ ESP learning is provided at the end of the article.</p>

Support and conflict in ethnically diverse young adults’ relationships with parents and friends

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Moilanen ◽  
Marcela Raffaelli
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Group Experiences

We examined support and conflict with parents and close friends in a sample of ethnically diverse young adults (European-, Asian-, Cuban-, Latin-, and Mexican Americans). College students ( N = 495) completed six subscales from the Network of Relationships Inventory (NRI; Furman & Buhrmester, 1985). Friends were rated higher than parents on global support by Asian- and European Americans, but not by the three Latino groups. Regardless of ethnic group, friends and parents provided different types of support, and conflict with parents was more frequent than conflict with friends. No differences due to age, gender, or generation of immigration emerged for European-, Cuban-, or Asian Americans; differences emerged attributable to gender among Mexican Americans (support and conflict), and generation of immigration among Latin Americans (support). Findings reveal ethnic group similarities in how college students’ social relationships are structured, but also highlight unique within-group experiences.

Using Cluster Analysis to Examine the Combinations of Motivation Regulations of Physical Education Students

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ullrich-French ◽  
Anne Cox
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Physical Education Students ◽  
Adaptive Physical Education ◽  
Different Types ◽  
8Th Grade

According to self-determination theory, motivation is multidimensional, with motivation regulations lying along a continuum of self-determination (Ryan & Deci, 2007). Accounting for the different types of motivation in physical activity research presents a challenge. This study used cluster analysis to identify motivation regulation profiles and examined their utility by testing profile differences in relative levels of self-determination (i.e., self-determination index), and theoretical antecedents (i.e., competence, autonomy, relatedness) and consequences (i.e., enjoyment, worry, effort, value, physical activity) of physical education motivation. Students (N = 386) in 6th- through 8th-grade physical education classes completed questionnaires of the variables listed above. Five profiles emerged, including average (n = 81), motivated (n = 82), self-determined (n = 91), low motivation (n = 73), and external (n = 59). Group difference analyses showed that students with greater levels of self-determined forms of motivation, regardless of non-self-determined motivation levels, reported the most adaptive physical education experiences.

scholarly journals A Meta-Analysis of Perceived Locus of Causality in Exercise, Sport, and Physical Education Contexts

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos L.D. Chatzisarantis ◽  
Martin S. Hagger ◽  
Stuart J.H. Biddle ◽  
Brett Smith ◽  
John C.K. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Analytic Review ◽  
The Relationship

The present article conducts a meta-analytic review of the research adopting the perceived locus of causality in the contexts of sport, exercise, and physical education. A literature search of published articles identified three main research foci: (a) the development of instruments that assess perceived locus of causality; (b) examination of the construct validity of perceived locus of causality by investigating the relevance of the self-determination continuum as well as by using antecedents (e.g., perceived competence) and outcomes (e.g., intentions); and (c) integration of Nicholls’ (1984) concepts of task and ego orientation with perceived locus of causality. A meta-analysis using 21 published articles supported the existence of a self-determination continuum from external regulation to introjection and identification. In addition, path analysis of corrected effect sizes supported the mediating effects of perceived locus of causality on the relationship between perceived competence and intentions. Results are discussed with reference to the assumptions of self-determination theory, Vallerand’s (1997) hierarchical model of intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, and theories of behavioral intentions.

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