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Scientific American: Three Critical Elements Sustain Motivation

October 18, 2012 by Shannon

October 18th 2012.   :Whether you pursue an activity for its own sake or because external forces compel you, psychologists Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan of the University of Rochester argue that you gain motivation when you feel in charge. In evaluations of students, athletes and employees, the researchers have found that the...

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Basic Psychological Needs

Basic Psychological Needs

Olafsen, A. H., Marescaux, B. P. C., & Kujanpää, M. (2024). Crafting for autonomy, competence, and relatedness: A self-determination theory model of need crafting at work. Applied Psychology, Advance online publication doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12570

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van den Bogaard, D., Soenens, B., Brenning, K., Flamant, N., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2024). . In , Can students learn to optimize their need‐based experiences and mental health during a stressful period? Testing a need‐crafting intervention in higher education (Vol 25(49)). : . doi: 10.1007/s10902-024-00761-8

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Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Wichstrøm, L., Mouratidis, A., Matos, L., & Steinsbekk, S. (2023). Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences. Motivation and Emotion, 47(5), 870–886. doi: 10.1007/s11031-023-10035-0

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Laporte, N., van den Bogaard, D., Brenning, K., Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2022). Testing an online program to foster need crafting during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Current Psychology, 43, 8557-8574. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03012-2

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Laporte, N., Soenens, B., Flamant, N., Vansteenkiste, M., Mabbe, E., & Brenning, K. (2021). The role of daily need crafting in daily fluctuations in adolescents' need-based and affective experiences. Motivation and Emotion, 46, 137-149. doi: 10.1007/s11031-021-09921-2

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Laporte, N., Soenens, B., Brenning, K., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2021). Adolescents as active managers of their own psychological needs: The role of psychological need crafting in adolescents’ mental health. Journal of Adolescence, 88, 67-83. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.02.004

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Slemp, G., & Vella-Brodrick, D. A. (2014). Optimising employee mental health: The relationship between intrinsic need satisfaction, job crafting, and employee well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 15(4), 957–977. doi: 10.1007/s10902-013-9458-3

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Rochester Review Featured Story

Rochester Review Featured Story

Self-Determined: What motivates you? Two Rochester experimental psychologists are challenging some cherished assumptions (Aug. 2010).

ROCHESTER REVIEW: Self-Determined: What motivates you?

August 1, 2010 by Shannon

August 2010.   Ten years ago, the popular business reporter and author Daniel Pink began researching why an increasing number of people were leaving jobs in large organizations to work for themselves. He encountered—“in a pretty cursory way,” as he explains it—work on human motivation by Rochester experimental psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. Two...

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Why your happiness matters to the planet

July 22, 2008 by Shannon

July 22nd 2008. Scientists say this need for community may be a result of humanity’s long evolution in groups. Living together conferred an advantage, they say. In the hunter-gatherer world, relatedness, autonomy, curiosity, and competence – the very things that psychologists find make people happy – “had payoffs that were pretty clear,” says Richard Ryan, a...

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