articleJournal of Educational PsychologyNov 1, 2007Closed access

Autonomous, controlled, and amotivated types of academic motivation: A person-oriented analysis.

Université Laval · Université du Québec à Montréal

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Abstract

The authors investigated students ’ profiles regarding autonomous, controlled, and amotivated regulation and tested whether profile groups differed on some academic adjustment outcomes. Studies 1 and 2 performed on high school students revealed 3 profiles: (a) students with high levels of both controlled motivation and amotivation but low levels of autonomous motivation, (b) students with high levels of both controlled and autonomous motivation but low levels of amotivation, and (c) students with moderate levels of both autonomous and controlled motivations but low levels of amotivation. These first 2 studies revealed that students in the high autonomous/high controlled group reported the highest degree of…

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Keywords
  • Amotivation
  • Deci-
  • Psychology
  • Self-determination theory
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Developmental psychology
  • Social psychology
  • Autonomy
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