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A classification of motivation and behavior change techniques used in self-determination theory-based interventions in health contexts

scientific article

A dark side of the American dream: correlates of financial success as a central life aspiration.

scientific article

A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation

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A motivational model of video game engagement

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A self-determination multiple risk intervention trial to improve smokers' health

scientific article published in December 2006

A self-determination theory approach to psychotherapy: The motivational basis for effective change

article by Richard M. Ryan et al published 2008 in Canadian Psychology

A trial of family partnership and education interventions in heart failure

scientific article published on 29 October 2013

Absidia corymbifera infections in neonates

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

An instrument to assess adults' orientations toward control versus autonomy with children: Reflections on intrinsic motivation and perceived competence

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Aspiring to physical health: the role of aspirations for physical health in facilitating long-term tobacco abstinence

scientific article published on 05 October 2008

Autonomous regulation and long-term medication adherence in adult outpatients

scientific article published in May 1998

Autonomy and Need Satisfaction in Close Relationships: Relationships Motivation Theory

article published in 2014

Autonomy and control in dyads: effects on interaction quality and joint creative performance

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Autonomy as Process and Outcome: Revisiting Cultural and Practical Issues in Motivation for Counseling

Autonomy disturbances in subtypes of anorexia nervosa

scientific article published on 01 August 1987

Autonomy support and diastolic blood pressure: Long term effects and conflict navigation in romantic relationships

scientific article published on 21 November 2015

Avoiding death or engaging life as accounts of meaning and culture: comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004).

scientific article published on May 2004

Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Being present in the face of existential threat: The role of trait mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to mortality salience

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Benefits of Emotional Integration and Costs of Emotional Distancing.

scientific article published on 9 December 2017

Beyond the intrinsic-extrinsic dichotomy: Self-determination in motivation and learning

Can nature make us more caring? Effects of immersion in nature on intrinsic aspirations and generosity.

scientific article published on 5 August 2009

Changes in materialism, changes in psychological well-being: Evidence from three longitudinal studies and an intervention experiment

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Choice and ego-depletion: the moderating role of autonomy.

scientific article published in August 2006

Commentary: Primary Emotional Systems and Personality: An Evolutionary Perspective.

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

Conceptualizing parental autonomy support: adolescent perceptions of promotion of independence versus promotion of volitional functioning.

scientific article published in May 2007

Correction: Mindfulness Enhances Episodic Memory Performance: Evidence from a Multimethod Investigation.

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Daily Autonomy Support and Sexual Identity Disclosure Predicts Daily Mental and Physical Health Outcomes.

scientific article

Designing for Motivation, Engagement and Wellbeing in Digital Experience.

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Differentiating autonomy from individualism and independence: a self-determination theory perspective on internalization of cultural orientations and well-being

scientific article published in January 2003

Diminished neural responses predict enhanced intrinsic motivation and sensitivity to external incentive

scientific article published on June 2015

Effect of methylphenidate on young adult's vigilance and event-related potentials.

scientific article published on April 1981

Ego-involved persistence: When free-choice behavior is not intrinsically motivated

Enhancing physical function in HIV-infected older adults: A randomized controlled clinical trial.

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Enhancing social functioning in young people at Ultra High Risk (UHR) for psychosis: A pilot study of a novel strengths and mindfulness-based online social therapy

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Erratum to “The antecedents and consequences of autonomous self-regulation for college: A self-determination theory perspective on socialization”

scholarly article published in Journal of Adolescence

Exercise, physical activity, and self-determination theory: a systematic review.

scientific article

Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation in Education: Reconsidered Once Again

scholarly article published in 2001

Facilitating autonomous motivation for smoking cessation

scientific article published in January 2002

Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life's domains

Family partner intervention influences self-care confidence and treatment self-regulation in patients with heart failure

scientific article

Favoriser la motivation optimale et la santé mentale dans les divers milieux de vie

article published in 2008

From Ego Depletion to Vitality: Theory and Findings Concerning the Facilitation of Energy Available to the Self

Having to versus wanting to play: background and consequences of harmonious versus obsessive engagement in video games

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Heart rate, contingent negative variation, and evoked potentials during anticipation of affective stimulation.

scientific article published in November 1980

Hedonia, eudaimonia, and well-being: an introduction

article published in 2006

How self-determined choice facilitates performance: a key role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

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Hurting you hurts me too: the psychological costs of complying with ostracism.

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Initial motivations for alcohol treatment: relations with patient characteristics, treatment involvement, and dropout.

scientific article published in May 1995

Interpersonal relatedness, self-definition, and their motivational orientation during adolescence: a theoretical and empirical integration

scientific article published on May 2003

Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behavior

Intrinsic motivation to teach: Possibilities and obstacles in our colleges and universities

Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview

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Leader autonomy support in the workplace: A meta-analytic review

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Levels of Analysis, Regnant Causes of Behavior and Well-Being: The Role of Psychological Needs

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Living well: a self-determination theory perspective on eudaimonia

Mediating between the muse and the masses: inspiration and the actualization of creative ideas

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Menstrual cycle abnormalities and subclinical eating disorders: a preliminary report.

scientific article published on January 1989

Mentoring Interventions for Underrepresented Scholars in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences: Effects on Quality of Mentoring Interactions and Discussions.

scientific article published on January 2017

Mindfulness Enhances Episodic Memory Performance: Evidence from a Multimethod Investigation.

scientific article

Mindfulness and Its Association With Varied Types of Motivation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using Self-Determination Theory

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Mindfulness, Work Climate, and Psychological Need Satisfaction in Employee Well-being

Motivation and Autonomy in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Behavior Change: A Look at Theory and Practice 1ψ7

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Motivation and Education: The Self-Determination Perspective

Motivation, Personality, and Development Within Embedded Social Contexts: An Overview of Self-Determination Theory

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Motivational Interviewing and Self–Determination Theory

Motivational determinants of integrating positive and negative past identities.

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Need Satisfaction, Motivation, and Well-Being in the Work Organizations of a Former Eastern Bloc Country: A Cross-Cultural Study of Self-Determination

Need satisfaction and the self-regulation of learning

On energy, personality, and health: subjective vitality as a dynamic reflection of well-being.

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On happiness and human potentials: a review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being.

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On the benefits of giving as well as receiving autonomy support: mutuality in close friendships.

scientific article published in March 2006

Outcomes of the Smoker's Health Project: a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of tobacco-dependence interventions based on self-determination theory

scientific article published on 22 October 2016

Perceived locus of causality and internalization: examining reasons for acting in two domains.

scientific article published in November 1989

Preventing occupational injury among police officers: does motivation matter?

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Promoting Self‐determined Education

Psychological need thwarting in the sport context: assessing the darker side of athletic experience

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Psychological needs and the facilitation of integrative processes.

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Reflections on Self-Determination Theory as an Organizing Framework for Personality Psychology: Interfaces, Integrations, Issues, and Unfinished Business

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Revitalization through Self-Regulation: The Effects of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation on Happiness and Vitality

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Righting the Wrong: Reparative Coping After Going Along With Ostracism.

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Self-Determination Theory

scholarly article published in 2012

Self-Determination Theory Applied to Health Contexts: A Meta-Analysis

scientific article published in July 2012

Self-Determination Theory and Public Policy: Improving the Quality of Consumer Decisions Without Using Coercion

Self-Determination Theory and the Relation of Autonomy to Self-Regulatory Processes and Personality Development

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Self-Determination Theory in Work Organizations: The State of a Science

Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness

2017 edition of the book by Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci

Self-determination theory and diminished functioning: the role of interpersonal control and psychological need thwarting.

scientific article published on 23 June 2011

Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being

scientific article published in January 2000

Self-determination theory: A macrotheory of human motivation, development, and health

scholarly article published in 2008

Self-perceptions, motivation, and adjustment in children with learning disabilities: a multiple group comparison study.

scientific article published in March 1990

Self-regulation and the problem of human autonomy: does psychology need choice, self-determination, and will?

scientific article published on December 2006

Social pressure, coercion, and client engagement at treatment entry: a self-determination theory perspective

scientific article published on 9 February 2006

Solitude as an Approach to Affective Self-Regulation

scientific article published in October 2017

Students' Motivational Profiles in the Physical Education Context

scientific article published on 29 December 2016

Testing a self-determination theory intervention for motivating tobacco cessation: supporting autonomy and competence in a clinical trial

scientific article published in January 2006

The "what" and "why" of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior

scholarly article published in 2000

The Benefits of Benevolence: Basic Psychological Needs, Beneficence, and the Enhancement of Well-Being

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

The Emerging Neuroscience of Intrinsic Motivation: A New Frontier in Self-Determination Research

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

The Empirical Exploration of Intrinsic Motivational Processes

The Impact of Every Classroom, Every Day on High School Student Achievement: Results From a School-Randomized Trial

The Importance of Autonomy for Development and Well-Being

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The Motivational Pull of Video Games: A Self-Determination Theory Approach

The Ombudsman: Do CEOs’ Aspirations for Wealth Harm Stockholders?

The Pervasive Negative Effects of Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation: Response to

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The Significance of Autonomy and Autonomy Support in Psychological Development and Psychopathology

The antecedents and consequences of autonomous self-regulation for college: a self-determination theory perspective on socialization

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

The benefits of being present: mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being

scientific article (publication date: April 2003)

The development of emotional and behavioral self-regulation and social competence among maltreated school-age children.

scientific article published in January 1994

The emotional and academic consequences of parental conditional regard: comparing conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support as parenting practices.

scientific article published in July 2009

The energization of health-behavior change: Examining the associations among autonomous self-regulation, subjective vitality, depressive symptoms, and tobacco abstinence

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The general causality orientations scale: Self-determination in personality

The ideal self at play: the appeal of video games that let you be all you can be.

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

The imaginary audience, self-consciousness, and public individuation adolescence

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

The importance of autonomy support and the mediating role of work motivation for well-being: testing self-determination theory in a Chinese work organisation

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

The importance of self-determination theory for medical education.

scientific article published in September 1999

The importance of supporting autonomy and perceived competence in facilitating long-term tobacco abstinence

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The link between perceived maternal and paternal autonomy support and adolescent well-being across three major educational transitions

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

The smoker's health project: a self-determination theory intervention to facilitate maintenance of tobacco abstinence.

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The structure of goal contents across 15 cultures

scientific article published in November 2005

The support of autonomy and the control of behavior

scientific article published in 1987

The “third selective paradigm” and the role of human motivation in cultural and biological selection: A response to Csikszentmihalyi and Massimini

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Toward a Social Psychology of Assimilation: Self-Determination Theory in Cognitive Development and Education

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Two types of religious internalization and their relations to religious orientations and mental health.

scientific article published in September 1993

Users' Intrinsic Goals Linked to Alcohol Dependence Risk Level and Engagement With a Health Promotion Website (Hello Sunday Morning): Observational Study

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Validation of the "Important Other" Climate Questionnaire: Assessing Autonomy Support for Health-Related Change

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Validation of the revised sport motivation scale (SMS-II)

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When helping helps: autonomous motivation for prosocial behavior and its influence on well-being for the helper and recipient

scientific article published in February 2010

Why identities fluctuate: variability in traits as a function of situational variations in autonomy support.

scientific article published on December 2007

Within-person variation in security of attachment: a self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need fulfillment, and well-being

scientific article (publication date: September 2000)