scholarly journals Understanding the Motivational Dynamics Among Unemployed Individuals: Refreshing Insights from the Self-Determination Theory Perspective

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten Vansteenkiste ◽  
Anja Van den Broeck
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Although the role of motivation has been emphasized in the field of unemployment and job search, the motivational dynamics underlying unemployed individuals’ behavior have not yet received the attention they deserve. In this chapter, we present a motivational perspective grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), a macrotheory focusing on human motivation in the social context. We discuss basic principles of SDT and formulate seven propositions that have direct relevance for the fields of unemployment and job search. In discussing these propositions, we elucidate similarities and differences between SDT and various frameworks in the unemployment and job search literature and cover the available empirical evidence in the realm of SDT in these fields. Given that the literatures on job search and unemployment have been developed fairly independently, we conclude that SDT represents a promising theory to bridge these two fields and may equally provide useful guidelines for practitioners in the field.

scholarly journals Sesame Credit: Social Compliance Gamification in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Alessandro Vieira dos Reis ◽  
Livia Topper Press
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Government Official ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Social Credit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpretative Analysis ◽  
Government Interests

Sesame Creditis the gamified Chinese social credit. It aims at monitoring and controlling the behavior of more than a billion citizens until 2020. Basing itself on the distribution of rewards and punishments to individuals, upon scoring based on the compliance of the aforementioned citizens towards laws and government interests. The present study probes Sesame Credit from data collected from academic papers, Chinese government official documents, as well as media articles.An interpretative analysis is conducted based on the Octalysismethod of gamification and the motivational method known as the Self-Determination Theory. Residing as main conclusions: a) the efficiency of the Sesame Credit depends on extensive and continual monitoring of the population by the Chinese government; b) despite the coercive aspects, such gamification is observed to be as popular in China, due to a millenary tradition of people’s compliance to the social and those of authority obedience

scholarly journals Self-determination motivation theory in R: The software package S D T

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ünlü
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Quadratic Program ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
Convex Quadratic Program ◽  
Technical Details

AbstractThis paper presents the technical details of the software package SDT in the R computing and graphics environment, implementing a convex quadratic program that was recently proposed in the literature on self-determination theory of human motivation. Three main features are addressed, with their accompanying code for computation in R: first, the application of the quadratic program and corresponding code for the analysis of the extent of motivation internalization or externalization; second, for exploring the simplex structure assumption of motivation; and third, for adjusting the confounded scoring protocol, called the self-determination or relative autonomy index, to account for the mixture of internal motivation and external motivation. We describe the functions of the R package SDT. The computations are demonstrated with example data accompanying the package, so researchers can run the methodology on their own datasets.

scholarly journals Self-determination motivation theory in R: The software package SDT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ünlü
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
R Package ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Quadratic Program ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
Convex Quadratic Program ◽  
Technical Details

This paper presents the technical details of the software package SDT in the R computing and graphics environment, implementing a convex quadratic program that was recently proposed in the literature on self-determination theory of human motivation. Three main features are addressed, with their accompanying code for computation in R: first, the application of the quadratic program and corresponding code for the analysis of the extent of motivation internalization or externalization; second, for exploring the simplex structure assumption of motivation; and third, for adjusting the confounded scoring protocol, called the self-determination or relative autonomy index, to account for the mixture of internal motivation and external motivation. We describe the functions of the R package SDT. The computations are demonstrated with example data accompanying the package, so researchers can run the methodology on their own datasets.

scholarly journals The Role of the External Accountant in Business Planning for Starters: Perspective of the Self-Determination Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3014
Author(s):  
Stefanie De Bruyckere ◽  
Patricia Everaert
Keyword(s):  
Business Plan ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Business Planning ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Important Challenge

The objective of this study was to gain more insight into the value of business planning for starters and to better understand the role of the external accountant in the planning stage. In particular, survey research was conducted to capture both the quality of the business plan and its effectiveness as perceived by the starter. To unravel the underlying reasons behind the development of a business plan, the framework of the self-determination theory (SDT) was used and adapted to this context. SDT proposes a continuum that distinguishes four types of motivation, ranging from external motivation (i.e., developing a business plan because of a legal obligation) to intrinsic motivation (i.e., developing a business plan because of a personal interest). The results, based on 283 surveys of Belgian starters, showed a relationship between the type of motivation and the quality of the business plan. Entrepreneurs with high introjected or high identified motivation seem to develop a high-quality business plan. This high-quality business plan enables entrepreneurs to increase their effectiveness. Furthermore, entrepreneurs who consulted an accountant during the business planning stage perceived the quality of their business plan as higher than entrepreneurs who did not get advice from an accountant. These findings presuppose an important challenge for external accountants, as their business advice supports entrepreneurs in anticipating “the unexpected”, which subsequently empowers them to monitor their business effectively.

scholarly journals Have you been exercising lately? Testing the role of past behavior on exercise adherence

2019 ◽  
pp. 135910531987824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipe Rodrigues ◽  
Diogo S Teixeira ◽  
Luís Cid ◽  
Diogo Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Exercise Adherence ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Past Behavior ◽  
Future Behavior

The purpose of this study was to test the effect of past behavior on future behavior, considering the motivational sequence proposed by the self-determination theory. The total sample was formed by 293 exercisers aged between 18 and 65 ( M = 36.57 ±  SD = 11.25) years. Participants completed a multi-section survey of motivational, emotional and cognitive-related variables, and exercise adherence was measured using computer records. Past behavior was found to offset the direct effect of intention on future behavior and the indirect effect of all other variables under analysis on intention, acting as a “buffer” variable for experienced gym members.

Effect of Social Context on the Impact of Coping Self-Statements

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Zettle ◽  
Steven C. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Behavioral Measures ◽  
Social Contingencies ◽  
Context Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The present study was designed to evaluate the role of a social context in the impact of coping self-statements. It was hypothesized that the control which coping self-statements exert over anxiety-related behaviors would vary to the extent that the self-statements are socially accessible. Speech-anxious college students were randomly assigned to either a control group or to one of two experimental groups. Control subjects received no coping self-statements while subjects in both experimental groups selected the same coping self-statement. The two experimental groups differed only in whether the coping self-statement was apparently known to the experimenter. On self-report measures, only the social-context group showed improvement over those of the other two groups. The only difference among the groups on behavioral measures indicated that subjects in the social-context group had followed the coping statement by talking more slowly. The results were interpreted as possibly a function of the social contingencies established by public statements.

scholarly journals Specifics of Subjective Vitality in Officers of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs with Various Post Statuses

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
V.M. Pozdnyakov ◽  
T.V. Maltseva ◽  
A.O. Burtsev
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Subjective Vitality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
The Difference

The purpose of this study is to identify the component parts of the subjective vitality in the officials and other personnel of internal affairs divisions and to reveal the difference between these data and those of similar-ranked professionals in civilian organizations. On the conceptual level one's subjective vitality is viewed through the personality's attitude to the genesis of its inner forces compared to the scale and feasibility of one's projected plans in various areas of activity. Based on the subject-activity approach, the concept of personality's psychological safety and the resource-based concept of stress we actualize the role of subjective vitality in health behavior. 80 individuals were examined using the Russian adaptation (made by Alexandrova L.A) of the methodology for identifying the subjective vitality developed by R. Ryan and C.Frederic within the framework of the self-determination theory. The study found that civilian staff and officials of the internal affairs divisions have the lowest subjective vitality, whereas in the officers of internal affairs divisions it is near average. It is revealed that women working within the Internal Affairs are more distinguished by "unstable vitality".

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