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Teachers' Psychological Needs Link Social Pressure with Personal Adjustment and Motivating Teaching Style
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Vermote, Branko; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Aelterman, Nathalie; van der Kaap-Deeder, Jolene; Beyers, Wim – Journal of Experimental Education, 2023
Grounded in self-determination theory, this study examined the explanatory role of teachers' need-based experiences in the association between teachers' perceived social pressure (i.e., from the principal, colleagues, and students) and their personal adjustment and motivating teaching style. In total, 482 secondary school teachers (M age = 39.9…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Psychological Needs, Secondary School Teachers, Self Determination
Children's Daily Well-Being: The Role of Mothers', Teachers', and Siblings' Autonomy Support and Psychological Control
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van der Kaap-Deeder, Jolene; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Soenens, Bart; Mabbe, Elien – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study examined the unique relations between multiple sources (i.e., mothers, teachers, and siblings) of perceived daily autonomy support and psychological control and children's basic psychological needs and well-being. During 5 consecutive days, 2 children from 154 families (M[subscript age] youngest child = 8.54 years; SD = 0.89 and…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Parent Role, Mothers
The Relations of Arab Jordanian Adolescents' Perceived Maternal Parenting to Teacher-Rated Adjustment and Problems: The Intervening Role of Perceived Need Satisfaction
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Ahmad, Ikhlas; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Soenens, Bart – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Although the effects of important parenting dimensions, such as responsiveness and psychological control, are well documented among Western populations, research has only recently begun to systematically identify psychological processes that may account for the cross-cultural generalization of these effects. A first aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Child Rearing
Does Observed Controlling Teaching Behavior Relate to Students' Motivation in Physical Education?
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De Meyer, Jotie; Tallir, Isabel B.; Soenens, Bart; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Aelterman, Nathalie; Van den Berghe, Lynn; Speleers, Lise; Haerens, Leen – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Self-determination theory (SDT) has served as a theoretical framework for considerable research on teaching behavior and student motivation. The majority of studies have focused on need-supportive teaching behavior at the expense of need-thwarting teaching behavior (i.e., the "dark side" of teaching). The goal of the present study was to…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Teacher Behavior, Power Structure, Video Technology