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Rylee Oram; Maria Rogers – Canadian Journal of Education, 2022
Procrastination is particularly prevalent in the post-secondary student population, with prevalence rates ranging between 70-95%. Students have consistently cited motivation, or a lack thereof, as one of the main sources of their procrastination. One of the most prominent theories explaining motivation is self-determination theory (SDT). Despite…
Descriptors: Time Management, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Needs, Need Gratification
Rylee Oram; Rebecca Sullivan; Maria Rogers – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Research has demonstrated that racialized students experience additional stressors during post-secondary education compared to their white counterparts. These barriers can include added institutional barriers, lower representation among faculty, additional stress associated with cultural differences and stigmatization, discrimination, and racism.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Race, White Students, Racial Factors
Sabagh, Zaynab; Hall, Nathan C.; Saroyan, Alenoush; Trépanier, Sarah-Geneviève – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Research evidence suggests that faculty members' well-being is a serious concern in academia. However, little is known about the academic job demands and resources, which are specific to the professional context and faculty work, that influence faculty well-being. Moreover, the psychological processes how job characteristics lead to well-being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Well Being, Psychological Needs
Zhang, Xijia; Noels, Kimberly A.; Sugita-McEown, Maya – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2022
Teachers often face pressures both from above and from below as they adhere to their supervisors' requirements and work with students who may be disengaged from the learning process. These interpersonal influences are argued to thwart instructors' teaching motivation and result in a more controlled teaching experience and a more controlling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Work Environment
Rocchi, Meredith; Lennox-Terrion, Jenepher – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
Professors create a positive learning environment for students through their interpersonal behaviour style in the classroom. High quality interpersonal interactions are associated with a number of positive student outcomes such as increased motivation, effort, learning, satisfaction, and higher ratings on formal student evaluations of teaching…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Behavior, Relationship
McIntee, Sara-Emillie; Goulet-Pelletier, Jean-Christophe; Williot, Alexandre; Deck-Leger, Emma; Lalande, Daniel; Cantinotti, Michael; Cousineau, Denis – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
A vast majority of social science students experience statistics anxiety in their statistics class, a course often perceived as the most difficult one of their academic paths. The present study examines the role of attitudes towards statistics, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and satisfaction of psychological needs in the prediction of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Predictor Variables, Positive Attitudes, Statistics Education
MacCormack, Jeffrey William Harris; Sider, Steve; Maich, Kimberly; Specht, Jacqueline Ann – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2021
While the placement of students with complex learning needs in Canadian classrooms may be mandated in policy, the development of inclusive-positive practices requires direct, and at times delicate, support and encouragement from principals. Without genuine engagement and buy-in from school staff, students in inclusive classrooms may not find…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Inclusion, Administrator Role, Principals
Carmen Markowski – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to develop a new framework for the burnout equation and to examine the relationships which exist among three key factors; teacher burnout, psychological well-being at work, and authentic leadership. Participants in the study included 335 Canadian teachers, 299 of which were from the province…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Well Being, Work Environment, Leadership Styles
Taylor, Whitney D.; Cobigo, Virginie; Ouellette-Kuntz, Hélène – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: This study explored the way families support self-determination in young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) during life transitions. Method: Qualitative case studies were conducted with two Canadian families who participated in semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations every quarter for one…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Self Determination, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability
Clément, Louise; Fernet, Claude; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Austin, Stéphanie – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
This study examines the mediating role of the satisfaction of basic psychological needs (need for relatedness, need for competence, need for autonomy), as derived from self-determination theory, between college teachers' relational trust in three main referents (the administration, colleagues, and students) and their optimal functioning (vigor,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Trust (Psychology), Psychological Needs, Work Environment
Ratelle, Catherine F.; Duchesne, Stéphane; Litalien, David; Plamondon, André – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
School is where adolescents spend the largest share of their waking time. The present study focused on the factors that contribute to students' adjustment to school from a self-determination perspective. We tested the predictive value of parental behaviors (autonomy support, structure, and involvement) on the different dimensions of school…
Descriptors: Mothers, Student Needs, Parent Role, Adolescents
Lenny, David John; Doleck, Tenzin; Bazelais, Paul – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2019
Instances of anxiety, depression, and loneliness are attaining epidemic-levels among college-age students. Self-determination theory suggests that such feelings are attributable to antagonistic situations hindering the satisfaction of an individual's basic needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Psychological Patterns, Academic Achievement, College Students
Price, Jenson; Brunet, Jennifer – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: Young adult cancer survivors living in rural areas have reported barriers to participating in health behaviours due to their geographical location and the developmental milestones associated with their age. Existing health behaviour change interventions have generally been delivered face-to-face and have not been tailored to the…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Cancer, Rural Population, Access to Health Care
Sulz, Lauren; Gibbons, Sandra L.; Naylor, Patti-Jean; Wharf-Higgins, Joan – Physical Educator, 2020
This study examined the influence of a 4-month intervention on students' motivation in Grade 10 physical education and enrollment in elective physical education. Health Promoting Secondary School Physical Education (HPSS PE) was designed to improve students' psychological need satisfaction in physical education, based on self-determination theory.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Motivation, Grade 10, High School Students
Bissessar, Charmaine; Black, Debra; Boolaky, Mehraz – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2019
The self-determination of online graduate students was studied in terms of the impact of autonomy, competence and relatedness upon their persistence. Unique to this study was the assessment of the potential influence of socio-cultural factors. As the majority of research into online university students' persistence is generated from the US,…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Academic Persistence