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Direct linkTeng Chen; Wan Ding; Qingfeng Yang; Yanling Chen; Weijian Li; Ruibo Xie – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Prior studies showed that general basic psychological need satisfaction or social support affected academic engagement. However, it remains unknown how the mutual reinforcement between the perception of internal needs and external support influences adolescents' academic engagement, as well as whether academic engagement can shape psychological…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Need Gratification, High School Students, Learner Engagement
Thomas K.F. Chiu – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Students' strongly positive STEM interest and identity predict their future study and career choices in a STEM field. STEM education studies addressing multiple disciplines together are insufficient, as they have produced mixed findings and inadequate direction for advancing integrated STEM education. Self-determination theory (SDT) provides an…
Descriptors: Self Determination, STEM Education, Science Interests, Student Interests
Patrick L. Halberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teenagers are often disengaged in high school. Self-determination theory suggests that support for competence, autonomy, and relatedness may facilitate engagement. Co-creation encourages students to take responsibility for their affective engagement and work with teachers to create a context that supports their basic needs. Youth Participatory…
Descriptors: Youth, Participatory Research, Cooperative Learning, High School Students
Mastagli, Maxime; Van Hoye, Aurélie; Hainaut, Jean-Philippe; Bolmont, Benoît – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2022
Purpose: The present study investigated the relationship between an empowering motivational climate and pupils' concentration and distraction in physical education, mediated by basic psychological needs satisfaction and by positive and negative affect. Method: The participants were 425 French pupils (M[subscript age] = 15.36, SD[subscript age] =…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Student Motivation, Educational Environment, Attention Control
Chiu, Thomas K. F.; Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan; Ismailov, Murod – Educational Psychology, 2022
Digital literacy, a prerequisite for online learning, is fostered by active engagement with technology, a concept that is explained by self-determination theory (SDT). This two-study project took the unique opportunity afforded by COVID-19 to explore the effect of technology learning support for SDT-needs satisfaction on digital literacy and the…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Self Determination, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
Download full textEryilmaz, Ali; Basal, Ahmet; Bal Gezegin, Betül – Online Submission, 2021
Teachers have a critical role in the fulfillment of educational objectives. One of the fundamental factors affecting teachers while doing their demanding job is their subjective well-being state. This study investigates the subjective well-being of high-school teachers in terms of work engagement and work-related need satisfaction. The mediator…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Well Being, Teacher Motivation, Job Satisfaction
Di Battista, Rossana; Robazza, Claudio; Ruiz, Montse C.; Bertollo, Maurizio; Vitali, Francesca; Bortoli, Laura – European Physical Education Review, 2019
Grounded in achievement goal theory and basic psychological needs theory, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of the interaction of perceived motivational climate in physical education with psychological needs satisfaction (relatedness, competence and autonomy) and psychobiosocial states on student intention to engage in leisure-time…
Descriptors: Intention, Leisure Time, Physical Activities, Physical Education
Garn, Alex C.; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Lonsdale, Chris – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Student motivation research seeks to uncover greater understanding of when, how, and why students succeed or fail in school settings. Self-determination theory has been at the forefront of helping educational stakeholders answer questions on student motivation. This study investigates the motivation mediation model proposed by self-determination…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Need Gratification, Student Motivation, Self Determination
Flunger, Barbara; Mayer, Axel; Umbach, Nora – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
The present study investigated whether an autonomy-supportive intervention influenced students' need satisfaction, achievement emotions, and strategies of self-regulated learning differently depending on several student characteristics. The study was conducted with a sample of 345 9th-grade students in 17 physics classrooms who were randomly…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Intervention, Need Gratification, Psychological Patterns
Karaday, Emre; Ilker, Gökçe Erturan – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2018
This study aimed to explore the relationship between basic psychological needs, motivational regulations, and self-esteem in Turkish high school physical education environment. Nine hundred and fifty seven high school students (505 girls, 452 boys) were applied the questionnaire pack in physical education lessons. Students' general self-esteem,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Self Esteem, Physical Education
Costa, Sebastiano; Ingoglia, Sonia; Inguglia, Cristiano; Liga, Francesca; Lo Coco, Alida; Larcan, Rosalba – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2018
The purpose of this multistudy report was to adapt the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS) to the Italian context. Two studies were conducted. In Study 1, we investigated the dimensionality, reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity of the instrument in a sample of 544 participants (males = 41%) from 16…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Psychometrics, Need Gratification, Gender Differences
Denson, Cameron D. – Journal of Technology Education, 2017
This article examines the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program and investigates its impact on underrepresented student populations. MESA was started in California during the 1970s to provide pathways to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers for underrepresented students and represents an exemplar model…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Achievement, Mixed Methods Research, Self Efficacy
