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| E L DeciSummaryAffiliation: University of Rochester Country: USA Publications
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A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivationE L Deci
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Psychol Bull 125:627-68; discussion 692-700. 1999..The authors review 4 previous meta-analyses of this literature and detail how this study's methods, analyses, and results differed from the previous ones...- On the benefits of giving as well as receiving autonomy support: mutuality in close friendshipsEdward L Deci
Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:313-27. 2006..When both receiving and giving autonomy support competed for variance in predicting well-being, giving, rather than receiving, autonomy support was the stronger predictor... 
Self-determination theory in health care and its relations to motivational interviewing: a few commentsEdward L Deci
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 9:24. 2012..We suggest that change talk is likely to be an element of effective change only to the degree that the change talk is autonomously enacted and that practitioners facilitate change talk in an autonomy supportive way...- Autonomous regulation and long-term medication adherence in adult outpatientsG C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, The Genesee Hospital, New York 14627, USA
Health Psychol 17:269-76. 1998.... - Within-person variation in security of attachment: a self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need fulfillment, and well-beingJ G La Guardia
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, New York 14627, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 79:367-84. 2000..Relations of both attachment and need satisfaction to well-being were also explored... - Presenting the facts about smoking to adolescents: effects of an autonomy-supportive styleG C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:959-64. 1999.... - Supporting autonomy to motivate patients with diabetes for glucose controlG C Williams
Department of Medicine, The Genesee Hospital, The University of Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Diabetes Care 21:1644-51. 1998..e., patient centeredness) from their diabetes care providers related to improved glucose control over a 12-month period... - Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-beingR M Ryan
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Am Psychol 55:68-78. 2000..Also considered is the significance of these psychological needs and processes within domains such as health care, education, work, sport, religion, and psychotherapy... - Choice and ego-depletion: the moderating role of autonomyArlen C Moller
Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1024-36. 2006..In Experiment 3, the authors found significant mediation by perceived self-determination of the relation between the choice condition (autonomous vs. controlled) and ego-depletion as measured by performance... - Testing a self-determination theory intervention for motivating tobacco cessation: supporting autonomy and competence in a clinical trialGeoffrey C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Health Psychol 25:91-101. 2006..The causal role of autonomy support in the internalization of autonomous motivation, perceived competence, and smoking cessation was supported... - The antecedents and consequences of autonomous self-regulation for college: a self-determination theory perspective on socializationChristopher P Niemiec
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Box 270266, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
J Adolesc 29:761-75. 2006..Thus, perceived need support from parents does seem important for the development of adolescents' autonomous self-regulation and well-being... - Promoting glycemic control through diabetes self-management: evaluating a patient activation interventionGeoffrey C Williams
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, P O Box 270266, Rochester, NY 14627 0266, USA
Patient Educ Couns 56:28-34. 2005..However, the activation intervention did not improve glycemic control directly... - Aspiring to physical health: the role of aspirations for physical health in facilitating long-term tobacco abstinenceChristopher P Niemiec
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, United States
Patient Educ Couns 74:250-7. 2009..To assess aspirations for physical health over 18 months. To examine whether maintained importance of aspirations for physical health mediated and/or moderated the effect of an intensive intervention on long-term tobacco abstinence... - Avoiding death or engaging life as accounts of meaning and culture: comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004)Richard M Ryan
Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Psychol Bull 130:473-7; discussion 483-8. 2004.... - The importance of supporting autonomy and perceived competence in facilitating long-term tobacco abstinenceGeoffrey C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, R C Box 270266, Rochester, NY 14627 0266, USA
Ann Behav Med 37:315-24. 2009..The Public Health Service (PHS) Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (Fiore et al. 2000) recommends supporting autonomy and perceived competence to facilitate tobacco abstinence... - Testing a self-determination theory process model for promoting glycemic control through diabetes self-managementGeoffrey C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Health Psychol 23:58-66. 2004..Self-management behaviors mediated the relation between change in perceived competence and change in glycemic control. The self-determination process model fit the data well... - Health care practitioners' motivation for tobacco-dependence counselingGeoffrey C Williams
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Health Educ Res 18:538-53. 2003..In turn, change in perceived autonomy predicted change in time spent counseling and change in use of the AHCPR guidelines... - Facilitating autonomous motivation for smoking cessationGeoffrey C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Health Psychol 21:40-50. 2002..Perceived competence contributed independent variance to cessation only at 6 months... - Self-regulation and the problem of human autonomy: does psychology need choice, self-determination, and will?Richard M Ryan
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
J Pers 74:1557-85. 2006..We conclude that there is a universal and cross-developmental value to autonomous regulation when the construct is understood in an exacting way... 
Motivational determinants of integrating positive and negative past identitiesNetta Weinstein
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:527-44. 2011..Integration of both positive and negative past identities predicted indicators of well-being, namely, vitality, meaning, and relatedness satisfaction...- On happiness and human potentials: a review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-beingR M Ryan
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 52:141-66. 2001..This review considers research from both perspectives concerning the nature of well-being, its antecedents, and its stability across time and culture... - Activating patients for smoking cessation through physician autonomy supportG C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Med Care 39:813-23. 2001..Test whether physicians' counseling patients for smoking cessation with an autonomy supportive rather than controlling style would increase patients' active involvement in the counseling session and increase maintained abstinence... - Self-determination, smoking, diet and healthGeoffrey C Williams
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Health Educ Res 17:512-21. 2002..Structural equation modeling will test the model for both behaviors within the intervention and usual-care conditions... - Medical students' motivation for internal medicineG C Williams
Program for Biopsychosocial Studies, University of Rochester, New York 14627
J Gen Intern Med 9:327-33. 1994..Instructors who teach in an autonomy-supportive manner enhance students' perceived competence and interest in internal medicine, which increases the likelihood they will select an internal medicine residency... - Adult attachment and psychological well-being in cancer caregivers: the mediational role of spouses' motives for caregivingYoungmee Kim
Behavioral Research Center, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA 30303 1002, USA
Health Psychol 27:S144-54. 2008..In this study we examined the prediction of caregiver well-being from the relationship qualities specified by attachment theory and from motives specified by self-determination theory... - The emotional costs of parents' conditional regard: a self-determination theory analysisAvi Assor
Department of Education, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
J Pers 72:47-88. 2004..The results suggest that use of conditional regard as a socializing practice can promote enactment of the desired behaviors but does so with significant affective costs... - Motivating learning, performance, and persistence: the synergistic effects of intrinsic goal contents and autonomy-supportive contextsMaarten Vansteenkiste
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:246-60. 2004..Effects were significantly mediated by autonomous motivation... - The independent effects of goal contents and motives on well-being: it's both what you pursue and why you pursue itKennon M Sheldon
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:475-86. 2004..The pattern emerged in between-person and within-person studies of cross-sectional well-being and also emerged in a year-long study of prospective change in well-being. Implications for prescriptive theories of happiness are discussed...