scholarly journals The Purpose of Play

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Katta Spiel ◽  
Kathrin Gerling
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Future Work

Play presents a popular pastime for all humans, though not all humans play alike. Subsequently, Human–Computer Interaction Games research is increasingly concerned with the development of games that serve neurodivergent 1 players. In a critical review of 66 publications informed by Disability Studies and Self-Determination Theory, we analyse which populations , research methods, kinds of play and overall purpose goals existing games address. We find that games are largely developed for children, in a top-down approach. They tend to focus on educational and medical settings and are driven by factors extrinsic to neurodivergent interests. Existing work predominantly follows a medical model of disability, which fails to support self-determination of neurodivergent players and marginalises their opportunities for immersion. Our contribution comprises a large-scale investigation into a budding area of research gaining traction with the intent to capture a status quo and identify opportunities for future work attending to differences without articulating them as deficit.

Autonomous Motivation and Pro-Environmental Behaviours Among Bedouin Students in Israel: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haya Kaplan ◽  
Nir Madjar
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
School Students ◽  
Environmental Behaviours

AbstractPromoting pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) among students is a major concern for educators. The present article presents an educational program based on a self-determination theory framework (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2000) and a study demonstrating that working according to the theoretical principles presented in the program leads to the desired outcomes. The primary aim of the study was to test whether a hypothesised model in which autonomy support by students’ parents and moderators in a large-scale intervention program would be associated with autonomous motivation, which would in turn lead to PEBs, over and above the contributions of the students’ self-perceived competence and relatedness. The participants were 102 Bedouin high-school students (Grades 8 to 10) sampled from a cultural background characterised by a collectivist-hierarchical society in Israel. The results, based on structural equation modelling, indicated that moderators and parental autonomy support, as well as self-perceived relatedness and competence, were associated with students’ autonomous motivation, which in turn was associated with pro-environmental behaviours (including cleaning behaviours, activism, and preserving behaviours). The study supported the hypothesised model and demonstrated that SDT can be utilised as a theoretical framework for educational programs aimed at improving students’ self-determined PEBs.

Large-scale school reform as viewed from the self-determination theory perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward L. Deci
Keyword(s):  
School Reform ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Successful School

Successful school reform requires that administrators, teachers, and students internalize the value of improved teaching and learning and of the policies, structures, procedures, and behaviors implicit in the reform. This is most likely to happen when school personnel and students experience satisfaction of their basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness while planning and implementing the reform. When the components of a reform are relatively flexible rather than rigid and when the processes through which the reform is introduced and implemented are autonomy supportive, people will experience greater need satisfaction and will be more likely to internalize and endorse the reform. This article focuses on one approach to comprehensive school reform, namely, First Things First, and examines it in terms of self-determination theory principles.

scholarly journals Does Exercise Motivation Predict Engagement in Objectively Assessed Bouts of Moderate-Intensity Exercise?: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyn Standage ◽  
Simon J. Sebire ◽  
Tom Loney
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Exercise Behavior ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Moderate Intensity ◽  
Exercise Motivation ◽  
Moderate Intensity Exercise ◽  
Moderate Intensity Activity ◽  
Adaptive Consequences ◽  
Future Work

This study examined the utility of motivation as advanced by self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000) in predicting objectively assessed bouts of moderate-intensity exercise behavior. Participants provided data pertaining to their exercise motivation. One week later, participants wore a combined accelerometer and heart rate monitor (Actiheart; Cambridge Neurotechnology Ltd) and 24-hr energy expenditure was estimated for 7 days. After controlling for gender and a combined marker of BMI and waist circumference, results showed autonomous motivation to positively predict moderate-intensity exercise bouts of ≥10 min, ≥20 min, and an accumulation needed to meet public health recommendations for moderate-intensity activity (i.e., ACSM/AHA guidelines). The present findings add bouts of objectively assessed exercise behavior to the growing body of literature that documents the adaptive consequences of engaging in exercise for autonomous reasons. Implications for practice and future work are discussed.

scholarly journals Within Indian wars and the Wounded Knee massacre

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Ristan Taufiq Syukrianto
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Causal Relation ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Indian Wars ◽  
Wounded Knee ◽  
The U.S

Besides recorded in textbooks, historical events sometimes are adopted into literary works. Rebecca Wiles’ Bury Me at Wounded Knee is one of which since it portrays the Indian Wars and the Wounded Knee Massacre on 29 December 1890. The clause Bury Me at Wounded Knee in the poem is a form of self-determination of Native Americans. This paper aims at mapping the causal relation of historical events found in the poem to examine the Native Americans’’ self-determination inside it. As the basis, the paper employs the Historicism theory and Self-Determination theory (SDT) about autonomous and controlled motivations. The results found that the Native Americans’ self-determination in the poem is an undermined one. It is built by their internal autonomous motivation of deeply rooted culture and beliefs. However, the encroachments of the U.S. government who seized their rights, acted as controlled extrinsic motivations, internalized and thwarted the intrinsic motivation so that the self-determination is undermined. It decreases in the degree from an eagerness to act and resist to merely a wish of being buried in the location where they die and think of extinction.

From Haiti to Somalia: The Assistance Model and the Paradox of State Reconstruction in International Law

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-148
Author(s):  
Matthew Saul
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
State Reconstruction ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
State Consent

AbstractThis article is an attempt to draw attention to the nature of the assistance model of state reconstruction and its significance for the UN system. Traditional international legal doctrine identifies valid state consent with an effective domestic government. Moreover, effective control remains the means for applying the legal right of self-determination for the population of a state as a whole. Nonetheless, a frequently adopted paradigm for large-scale international involvement in the reconstruction of an ineffective state operates through the consent of an ineffective government. The assistance model is found in the recent past of Haiti (1994–1997; 2004–), Sierra Leone (1998–2005), Liberia (2003–), Afghanistan (2001–), in Iraq following the formal end of the belligerent occupation (2004–), and there are signs that it could soon be pursued in Somalia. To reveal how the assistance model of state reconstruction in fact relates to the political independence of the target state and its people, the key features of the assistance model and related legal issues are addressed. The main argument is that while the assistance model appears unremarkable, in fact it offers little protection for political independence and as a consequence puts at risk the core values of the UN system of self-determination of peoples and international peace.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF DEFENSIVE SILENCE ON COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY OF WORK TEAMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Duru Chukwudi George ◽  
◽  
Prof. B.C. Onuoha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cross River ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the extent to which defensive silence affects the collaboration and creativity of employees within the banking sector. For the study, self determination theory was adopted as the theoretical framework. The study focused on staff with full employment in deposit money banks in the South-South states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, and Rivers. Focus would be on Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom. The choice of these three cities and states was informed by proximity to the researcher. Preliminary investigation shows that a total of one thousand, four hundred and forty-one (1441) management and subordinate staff are in the eighteen (18) selected deposit money banks. The determination of the sample size was done using the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table and the result was 302. Multiple regression was used to test the null hypotheses. Our findings revealed a significant relationship between defensive silence and both collaboration and creativity. The study further recommended that organizations need to ensure that both managers and employees have the necessary support to be creative and understand how to use it in their particular job situation.

scholarly journals Investigate the Origin of the Components of Self-Determination Theory in Naturalism Thought

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Farnaz Mehdipour Maralani ◽  
Afzal Sadat Hoseini
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

<p class="Normal1">The need for competence sense, autonomy and relatedness are the needs if are supplied have a significant impact in the individual’s mental health. For a true understanding of the needs, the need to identifying is its thinking base. In this paper in the descriptive- analysis method, this intellectual infrastructure is proposed as naturalism and the origins and theoretical foundations self-determination on the basis of intellectual self-deploy, so it can be done if naturalism raising children are investigated on the basis of the infrastructure intellectual needs and as a result of it, if a child be educated by naturalism method can be effective on physiological and basis needs and as a result on self-determination of child. The naturalism doctrine can provide essential context to satisfy the basic psychological needs and thus self- determination. According to the doctrine of naturalism, intervention in nature must be appropriate to the stage of development that the child is at that stage, and it does not exceed, the intervention must be improved, not changer. Leave children to be free and the nature guide him the way he should go. Monitor his actions away. Give him tool feedback, not the executive one.</p>

scholarly journals Culture Moderates the Relationship between Family Obligation Values and the Outcomes of Korean and European American College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 511-525
Author(s):  
Haein Oh ◽  
Toni Falbo ◽  
Kejin Lee
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
European American ◽  
Family Obligation ◽  
European Americans ◽  
American Students ◽  
The Relationship

Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean ( n = 249) and European American ( n = 251) college students. The results provided support for this hypothesis. Specifically, for Koreans, family obligation values were significantly and positively correlated with descriptions of parents as being more supportive of the self-determination of their children, which was found to mediate the relationship between family obligation values and student outcomes. Furthermore, family obligation values were more strongly associated with the motivation, self-esteem, and depression of Koreans than European Americans. European American students expressed lower family obligation values and the intensity of these values were unrelated to their emotional well-being. Family obligation values were positively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for Korean students, and negatively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for European American students. The results are discussed in terms of cultural moderation and self-determination theory.

scholarly journals Impact of Future Work Self on Employee Workplace Wellbeing: A Self-Determination Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongqiu Li ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Xue Zhang ◽  
Zhuo Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Person Organization Fit ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Future Work Self

This study examines the association between future work self and employee workplace wellbeing by proposing a moderated mediation model. On the basis of the self-determination theory, self-management is identified as the mediator, and person–organization fit is recognized as the moderator in this study. We collected two waves of data from 239 Chinese employees. The results of the analysis revealed that the future work self is related to greater employee workplace wellbeing, and self-management mediates the links between them. We also found that the person–organization fit strengthens the positive relationship between future work self and self-management, and the indirect effect of future work self on employee workplace wellbeing through self-management. The results of this study extend the antecedents of employee workplace wellbeing and highlight the importance of future work self in current work-related output.

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