Self-determination theory indicates that the three psychosocial needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness improve the quality of motivation. Individuals seek tasks that indirectly satisfy one or more of these needs. In this assignment, you will examine the levels of motivation within the self-determination theory and the factors that need to be present within a performance environment to promote a self-determined state.
“In the classical, Aristotelian, view of human development, people are assumed to possess an active tendency toward psychological growth and integration. Endowed with an innate striving to exercise and elaborate their interest, individuals tend naturally to seek challenges, to discover new perspectives, and to actively internalize and transform cultural practices. By stretching their capacities and expressing their talents and propensities, people actualize their human potentials. To the degree that individuals have attained a sense of self, they can act in accord with, or be true to, that self” (Deci and Ryan, 2002, p. 3).
The main purpose of the self-determination theory has “been to provide an account of the seemingly discrepant viewpoints characterized, on the one hand, by the humanistic, psychoanalytic, and developmental theories that employ an organismic metatheory and, on the other hand, by the behavioral, cognitive, and post-modern theories and do not.” This theory stated by approving the “assumption that all individuals have natural, innate, and constructive tendencies to develop an ever more elaborated and unified sense of self. “In other words, researchers do assume that “people have a primary propensity to forge interconnections among aspects of their own psyches as well as with other individuals ...
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Self-determination theory states that people have the innate tendency to strive to reach their potential, take on challenges, and follow their interests due to intrinsic motivation not extrinsic motivation (Schultz & Schultz, 2013, p. 261). Self-determination theory also lays out the three needs for well-being of competence (ability to complete tasks), autonomy (freedom of action), and relatedness or close connections (Schultz & Schultz, 2013, p. 261). Juanita reflects this theory as she is able to strive to enter the career field she is interested in without any extrinsic motivation, but she still needs to work on feeling competent in her own abilities before she can self-actualize and reach a true state of
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being in children and adolescents: an application of the self-determination theory. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 24(2), 280-292.
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Bandura, A. (1989). Human agency in social cognitive theory. American Psychologist, 44, 1175–1184. Retrieved from Faith University.
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Kohut, Heinz, “The Search for Self”, volumes 3, 4, copyright 1991, International Universities Press, New York, N.Y.
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