The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
2000/10/01 by Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan · 1 voice · 372 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports #Youth Development and Social Support
paper · doi:10.1207/s15327965pli1104_01
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Abstract
Self-determination theory (SDT) maintains that an understanding of human motivation requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. We discuss the SDT concept of needs as it relates to previous need theories, emphasizing that needs specify the necessary conditions for psychological growth, integrity, and well-being. This concept of needs leads to the hypotheses that different regulatory processes underlying goal pursuits are differentially associated with effective functioning and well-being and also that different goal contents have different relations to the quality of behavior and mental health, specifically because different regulatory processes and different goal contents are associated with differing degrees of need satisfaction. Social contexts and individual differences that support satisfaction of the basic needs facilitate natural growth processes including intrinsically motivated behavior and integration of extrinsic motivations, whereas those that forestall autonomy, competence, or relatedness are associated with poorer motivation, performance, and well-being. We also discuss the relation of the psychological needs to cultural values, evolutionary processes, and other contemporary motivation theories.
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- A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations
- Activity Engagement as Escape from Self: The Role of Self-Suppression and Self-Expansion
- Deconstructing Hate Speech in the DRC: A Psychological Media Sensitization Campaign
- Self-determination and conflict in romantic relationships.
- Self-Determination and Sexual Experience in Dating Relationships
- Reward, punishment, and cooperation: A meta-analysis.
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- The impact of AI-assisted peer review on students’ AI-feedback literacy, motivation and self-esteem: Integrating experiential learning and self-determination theory
- Bridging the intention–behaviour gap: The role of moral norm
- Does Choice Mean Freedom and Well-Being?
- Motivations for Participation in a Crowdsourcing Application to Improve Public Engagement in Transit Planning
- Differentiating autonomy from individualism and independence: A self-determination theory perspective on internalization of cultural orientations and well-being.
- Unmasking the crowd: participants’ motivation factors, expectations, and profile in a crowdsourced law reform
- The Good Life Versus the “Goods Life”: An Investigation of Goal Contents Theory and Employee Subjective Well-Being Across Asian Countries
- Needs and subjective well-being around the world.
- Applying Psychological Theories to Promote Long-Term Maintenance of Health Behaviors
- Reconsidering happiness: the costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia
- Eastern Conceptualizations of Happiness: Fundamental Differences with Western Views
- Agency, Values, and Well-Being: A Human Development Model
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Irrational and Rational Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Athletes
- Intrinsic motivation of Chinese learning in predicting online learning self-efficacy and flow experience relevant to students’ learning progress
- A theoretical model of micro-learning for second language instruction
- Mindfulness, Work Climate, and Psychological Need Satisfaction in Employee Well-being
- Theorizing inconsistent media selection in the digital environment
- How to Deter Financial Misconduct if Crime Pays?
- Levels in reflection: core reflection as a means to enhance professional growth
- Going to the Core: Deepening Reflection by Connecting the Person to the Profession
- Finding The “Self” in Self-Regulation: The Identity-Value Model
- Reciprocal effects between self-efficacy and achievement in mathematics and reading
- Antecedents and consequences of parental psychological control and autonomy support: The role of psychological basic needs
- Work engagement: An emerging concept in occupational health psychology
- Explaining the relationships between job characteristics, burnout, and engagement: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction
- The effects of work motivation on employee exhaustion and commitment: An extension of the JD-R model
- Psychosocial safety climate as an antecedent of work characteristics and psychological strain: A multilevel model
- Parenting, self‐regulation, and sibling relationship dynamics in early childhood
- Understanding children's motivation from a self‐determination theoretical perspective: Implications for practice
- When text is not enough: Data-driven personas to explore crypto education affordances through learning platform analysis and survey insights
- On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review
- Do a humanoid robot and music increase the motivation to perform physical activity? A quasi-experimental cohort in typical developing children and preliminary findings in hospitalized children in neutropenia
- The dragons of inaction: Psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation.
- Secure Versus Fragile High Self‐Esteem as a Predictor of Verbal Defensiveness: Converging Findings Across Three Different Markers
- Costs of Self‐Handicapping
- On Pancultural Self-Enhancement
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