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Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goal Contents in Self-Determination Theory: Another Look at the Quality of Academic Motivation (2006) (1611)
Motivating learning, performance, and persistence: the synergistic effects of intrinsic goal contents and autonomy-supportive contexts. (2004) (1483)
Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures (2015) (1258)
Explaining the relationships between job characteristics, burnout, and engagement: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction (2008) (1003)
Capturing autonomy, competence, and relatedness at work: Construction and initial validation of the Work‐related Basic Need Satisfaction scale (2010) (961)
Motivational Profiles from a Self-Determination Perspective: The Quality of Motivation Matters. (2009) (809)
Experiences of Autonomy and Control Among Chinese Learners: Vitalizing or Immobilizing?. (2005) (705)
The role of the future in student motivation (1999) (546)
Conceptualizing parental autonomy support: adolescent perceptions of promotion of independence versus promotion of volitional functioning. (2007) (527)
Examining the motivational impact of intrinsic versus extrinsic goal framing and autonomy-supportive versus internally controlling communication style on early adolescents' academic achievement. (2005) (447)
Academic Achievement and Future Time Perspective as a Cognitive-Motivational Concept (1982) (438)
Placing Motivation and Future Time Perspective Theory in a Temporal Perspective (2004) (414)
The motivating role of positive feedback in sport and physical education: evidence for a motivational model. (2008) (331)
The role of different types of instrumentality in motivation, study strategies, and performance: know why you learn, so you'll know what you learn! (2004) (323)
An Integrated Model for the Study of Teacher Motivation (2002) (290)
How to Become a Persevering Exerciser? Providing a Clear, Future Intrinsic Goal in an Autonomy-Supportive Way (2004) (234)
Understanding the association between future time perspective and self-regulated learning through the lens of self-determination theory (2011) (229)
Less Is Sometimes More: Goal Content Matters (2004) (214)
The 'why' and 'why not' of job search behaviour: Their relation to searching, unemployment experience, and well-being (2004) (212)
Autonomy and Relatedness among Chinese Sojourners and Applicants: Conflictual or Independent Predictors of Well-Being and Adjustment? (2006) (190)
Understanding unemployed people's job search behaviour, unemployment experience and well-being: a comparison of expectancy-value theory and self-determination theory. (2005) (190)
Autonomous and controlled regulation of performance-approach goals: Their relations to perfectionism and educational outcomes (2010) (175)
How Future Goals Enhance Motivation and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms (2004) (164)
Unraveling the Importance of the Quantity and the Quality of Workers' Motivation for Well-Being: A Person-Centered Perspective. (2013) (160)
Vitality and Interest-Enjoyment as a Function of Class-to-Class Variation in Need-Supportive Teaching and Pupils' Autonomous Motivation. (2011) (154)
Moving the Achievement Goal Approach One Step Forward: Toward a Systematic Examination of the Autonomous and Controlled Reasons Underlying Achievement Goals (2014) (152)
Does Extrinsic Goal Framing Enhance Extrinsic Goal-Oriented Individuals' Learning and Performance? An Experimental Test of the Match Perspective versus Self-Determination Theory. (2008) (145)
Wanting to have vs. wanting to be: the effect of perceived instrumentality on goal orientation. (2000) (142)
Time perspective and identity formation: Short-term longitudinal dynamics in college students (2010) (126)
Future time perspective as a motivational variable: Content and extension of future goals affect the quantity and quality of motivation (2012) (122)
How you provide corrective feedback makes a difference: the motivating role of communicating in an autonomy-supporting way. (2010) (122)
Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity Related to Product: A Meta-analysis of the Studies Published Between 1990–2010 (2013) (107)
Affective attitude toward the personal future: impact on motivation in high school boys (1987) (105)
Understanding the impact of intrinsic versus extrinsic goal framing on exercise performance: The conflicting role of task and ego involvement (2007) (104)
'Learning to learn': teachers' conceptions of their supporting role (2002) (101)
Detaching reasons from aims: fair play and well-being in soccer as a function of pursuing performance-approach goals for autonomous or controlling reasons. (2010) (99)
Procrastinators lack a broad action perspective (2000) (98)
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Correlates of Internalization of Regulations for Religious Activities (2006) (94)
"Don't do it for me. Do it for yourself!" - stressing the personal relevance enhances motivation in physical education. (2003) (92)
Perceived structure and achievement goals as predictors of students' self-regulated learning and affect and the mediating role of competence need satisfaction (2013) (92)
Unemployed individuals' work values and job flexibility: An explanation from expectancy-value theory and self-determination theory (2010) (87)
The Portuguese Validation of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale: Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations to Well-being and Ill-being (2016) (81)
Beyond positive and negative affect: achievement goals and discrete emotions in the elementary physical education classroom. (2009) (80)
Enriching the hierarchical model of achievement motivation: autonomous and controlling reasons underlying achievement goals. (2014) (79)
Future goal setting, task motivation and learning of minority and non-minority students in Dutch schools. (2006) (78)
Motivation and de-motivation in secondary education: Student characteristics (1991) (77)
Motivation and Cognition (2000) (74)
Future Time Perspective: A Cognitive-Motivational Concept (1986) (74)
Measuring needs with the thematic apperception test: a psychometric study. (2002) (70)
From duty to desire: the role of students' future time perspective and instrumentality perceptions for study motivation and self-regulation (2002) (65)
Structural imaging (1994) (63)
Motivation and cognition: Their role in the development of giftedness (1999) (60)
Factor structure and dimensionality of the balanced measure of psychological needs among Portuguese high school students. Relations to well-being and ill-being☆ (2016) (59)
Updating Allport's and Batson's Framework of Religious Orientations: A Reevaluation from the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory and Wulff's Social Cognitive Model (2010) (55)
The role of perceived instrumentality in student motivation (2001) (54)
Parenting styles and psychological needs influences on adolescent life goals and aspirations in a South African setting (2015) (54)
Examining correlates of game-to-game variation in volleyball players' achievement goal pursuit and underlying autonomous and controlling reasons. (2014) (54)
Student motivation and self-regulation as a function of future time perspective and perceived instrumentality. (2000) (51)
Promoting self-regulated learning: A motivational analysis (2008) (50)
Understanding and Preventing Teacher Burnout: A Psychosocial Interpretation of Teacher Stress and Burnout (1999) (48)
Study persistence and academic achievement as a function of the type of competing tendencies (2005) (48)
Personal and contextual antecedents of achievement goals: Their direct and indirect relations to students' learning strategies (2013) (48)
Extension of Future Time Perspective in Motivational Goals of Different Age Groups (1980) (47)
The effect of earlier experience and reward contingencies on intrinsic motivation (1981) (46)
How to Combine Intrinsic Task-Motivation with the Motivational Effects of the Instrumentality of Present Tasks for Future Goals (2001) (44)
Intrinsic versus extrinsic goal promotion in exercise and sport: Understanding the differential impact on performance and persistence (2007) (44)
`What is the usefulness of your schoolwork?' (2009) (43)
Future Time Perspective and Motivation (2015) (36)
Achievement Goals, Learning Strategies and Language Achievement among Peruvian High School Students (2007) (35)
Exploring volitional problems in academic procrastinators (2000) (34)
The role of motivation and future time perspective in educational and career development (2005) (29)
Within-Person Configurations and Temporal Relations of Personal and Perceived Parent-Promoted Aspirations to School Correlates Among Adolescents (2013) (29)
Goals and regulations of religiosity: a motivational analysis (2005) (29)
Implementation intentions do not enhance all types of goals: The moderating role of goal difficulty (2003) (29)
Optimal motivation in Peruvian high schools: Should learners pursue and teachers promote mastery goals, performance-approach goals or both? (2017) (28)
Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures (2014) (28)
Parenting Styles, Identity Development, and Adjustment in Career Transitions (2018) (27)
The relationship between future time perspective, self-efficacy and risky sexual behaviour in the Black youth of central South Africa (2016) (25)
La signification motivationnelle de la perspective future (1993) (25)
Cognitive–motivational antecedents of career decision-making processes in Portuguese high school students: A longitudinal study (2015) (23)
Negative Motivation is Half the Story: achievement motivation combines positive and negative motivation (1991) (23)
The Motivational Properties of Future Time Perspective Future Orientation: Different Approaches, Different Cultures (2015) (23)
Volition: use with measure (1999) (22)
Achievement motivation and group loyalty among Turkish and belgian youngsters (1995) (22)
Time perspective, time attitude, and time orientation in alcoholism: a review. (1988) (19)
Instrumental Motivation is Extrinsic Motivation: So What??? (2009) (19)
Factors Contributing to the Risk of HIV Infection in Rural School-Going Adolescents (2014) (19)
The Evaluation Practice of Teachers as a Learning Opportunity for Students. (2001) (18)
Dispositional achievement motives matter for autonomous versus controlled motivation and behavioral or affective educational outcomes (2014) (17)
Capturing autonomy, relatedness and competence at work: Construction and validation of a work-related basic need satisfaction scale (2009) (17)
The time perspective of the Alzheimer caregiver (2012) (16)
THEORETICAL RESEARCH SHOULD BE USEFUL AND USED (1987) (14)
The effect of different types of instrumentality on motivational and cognitive variables (2001) (14)
Sex Differences in Attitude Towards Personal Past, Present, and Future (1975) (14)
Work-Related Basic Need Satisfaction Scale (2017) (12)
School culture matters for teachers' and students' achievement goals (2007) (12)
The role of motivation and future time perspective in educational counseling (2003) (12)
Perceived Parenting and Basic Need Satisfaction among Portuguese Adolescents (2015) (11)
Adolescents' Psychological Functioning at School and in Sports: The Role of Future Time Perspective and Domain-Specific and Situation-Specific Self-Determined Motivation (2015) (11)
Motivation, future time perspective, and vocational planning behavior (2012) (11)
Future time perspective: a psychological approach (2006) (10)
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (2019) (10)
Achievement-motivation and intelligence-test scores - a test of the yerkes-dodson hypothesis (1980) (9)
On the differentiation of achievement goal orientations in physical education: a Rasch analysis approach (2010) (9)
The role of basic psychological need satisfaction in the relations of job hindrances, job challenges, and job resources with burnout and work engagement (2013) (8)
Motivation: About the “why” and “what for” of human behavior (2020) (8)
Motivation: Quantity and quality matter (2008) (7)
Social insertion of high school graduates in Lima: a socio-psychological study (2003) (7)
Personal Computers in the Learning Environment and Student Motivation (1994) (7)
WORK MOTIVATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF VOLUNTEERS AND NON-VOLUNTEERS (2014) (6)
The Nature and Dimensions of Achievement Goals: Mastery, Evaluation, Competition, and Self-Presentation Goals (2014) (6)
Explaining the Negative Relationship between Length of Unemployment and the Willingness to Undertake a Job Training: A Self-determination Perspective (2006) (5)
The future motivates. Experimentally manipulated utility influences performance through motivated behavior (2001) (5)
Teachers well being by a training programme: a longitudinal approach (2002) (5)
Cognition in Human Motivation and Learning (2013) (5)
Study Orientation and Causal Attribution in Mathematics Achievement (2006) (5)
Does an extrinsic values induction result in higher performance and persistence among extrinsically oriented individuals? A test of the self-determination theory versus the matching hypothesis (2004) (5)
DETERMINANTS OF THE ACTION IDENTIFICATION LEVEL AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SELF-CONTROL (1999) (5)
Cognition in human motivation and learning : festschrift for J.(R.) Nuttin (1981) (5)
Meta-analysis of the studies about motivation and creative personality (2011) (4)
Motivational predictors of successful transition from grades 11 to 12 in South Africa (2014) (4)
Beyond positive feedback: The effects of competence support on autonomous motivation and adjustment in physical education. (2008) (4)
Capturing autonomy, competence and relatedness: measuring need satisfaction at work (2008) (3)
Exploring psychological well-being among South African Mothers and children (2008) (3)
Procrastinators lack a broad perspective (1999) (3)
Transition from secondary education to higher education: A three-year longitudinal cognitive-motivational analysis (2014) (3)
New insights into the performance-approach controversy: The differential relations of autonomous versus controlled regulation to educational outcomes (2007) (2)
Development and Educational Importance of Career Maturity. A 3-year follow up of South African grade 11 learners (2011) (2)
Thinking hard can break your will: The role of working memory in ego depletion. Running head: ego depletion and working memory (2003) (2)
Student motivation as a function of future time perspective and perceived instrumentality (2004) (2)
A multi-dimensional questionnaire measure of future time perspective (1996) (2)
The role of present and future time perspectives as predictors of health behaviour, risky sexual behaviour and educational outcomes among south african adolescents and emerging adults (2012) (2)
Does goal awareness enhance self-control? Required effort moderates the relation between level of identity and persistence (2000) (2)
The outcomes of a sport-based intervention on risky sexual behaviours among rural school-going adolescents (2014) (2)
The significance of motivational regulations of religious behavior in a traditional catholic society: A cross-national comparison between Poland and Belgium (2009) (2)
How could students remember their goal and still focus on their tasks? Exploring volition problems of procrastinators (2000) (2)
Updating Allport's and Batson's framework of religious orientations: A refreshing look from the perspective of self-determination theory and Wullf's model of approaches towards religion (2009) (2)
Student motivation as a function of perceived instrumentality (2001) (2)
Self-determination theory: Promoting growth in the work place (2007) (2)
Intrapersonal achievement goals: What is their conceptual status and what are their effects? (2007) (1)
The internationalization of regulations for religious activities and their cognitive, affective, and behavioral correlates (2006) (1)
Goal setting and future time perspective in student motivation (1996) (1)
Examining the motivational impact of extrinsic goal framing and internally controlling communication style upon children's achievement (2004) (1)
Achievement motivation and scholastic performance : Special Issue (2007) (1)
Overcoming the inclination to quit a boring task: the role of the action identification level (1999) (1)
A dutch adaptation of the child-rearing styles inventory and a validation of krohne's two-process model. (1995) (1)
Motivational effects of future time perspective - a process analysis (1992) (1)
The development of a new Need Satisfaction at Work Scale: Examining the independent effects of autonomy, competence and relatedness on job well-being and performance (2007) (1)
Explaining the negative relationship between length of unemployment, job search optimism and the motivation to follow a job training: a self-determination perspective (2002) (1)
The role of culture, gender and school environment in the motivational aspirations and scholastic achievement of grade 11 and 12 learners (2006) (1)
Autonomous versus controlled motivation and open versus defensive functioning: Social-cognitive, intra-individual and interpersonal correlates (2006) (0)
Corrigendum to “Cognitive-motivational antecedents of career decision-making processes in Portuguese high school students: A longitudinal study” [Journal of Vocational Behavior 90C (2015) 145–153] (2015) (0)
Future time perspective, values, perceived instrumentality and self concept among adolescents of private and public secondary schools and universities in Lima (2004) (0)
Motivational variables in the process of teaching and learning: Achievement goals, classroom and school goal structure (2010) (0)
Student motivation combines intrinsic and instrumental motivation: Future goals affect present motivation, learning, and achievement (2005) (0)
Elaborating the job demands resources model : basic need satisfaction as a mediator between job characteristics, burnout and engagement (2007) (0)
Examination questions in general psychology - dutch - melchinger,h (1979) (0)
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale--Portuguese Version (2016) (0)
Intrinsic motivation - deci,el (1977) (0)
The effect of autonomous and controlled orientations on open versus defensive social functioning (2008) (0)
Time perspective and identity formation: Short-term longitudinal dynamics in emerging adulthood (2008) (0)
Need Valuation Measure (2016) (0)
Learning and Individual Differences (2012) (0)
What is depleted in ego depletion? The relation between working memory overuse and self-control (2001) (0)
High and low action identities enhance persistence in different conditions: the moderating role of difficulty and attractiveness of the task (2000) (0)
Queries abodt the moon (1896) (0)
The Motivation Induction Method: A Technique to Identify the Content and to Measure the Future Time Perspective of Motivational Goal Objects (1986) (0)
International perspectives on achievement and task motivation - halisch,f, vandenbercken,jhl (1990) (0)
Motivational Profiles: The Quality of Motivation Matters (2009) (0)
What is depleted in ego depletion (2001) (0)
Time perspective, risky sexual behaviour, and HIV/Aids among university students in South Africa: A correlational study (2006) (0)
Considering the future in identity formation: The influence of perceived adult status and a search for mediating variables (2008) (0)
Domain-Specific Autonomous and Controlled Motivation Measure (2016) (0)
Action identification level as a function of situational facilitation and inhibition (1997) (0)
Career Decision Process and Academic Achievement in Higher Education (2005) (0)
General mental representations enhance persistence at difficult tasks (2000) (0)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (2021) (0)
Optimistic and pessimistic academic procrastination as a function of a students action identification level (1999) (0)
The Health-Impairing Impact of Problematic Working Conditions: Does Basic Need Satisfaction Play a Role? (2010) (0)
Nuttin's cognitive-dynamic approach of human behavior: The future is our primary motivational space (2003) (0)
A different look at achievement goals in physical education: A Rasch analysis approach (2009) (0)
Burnout among high school teachers as a function of their motivational goal-orientation (1999) (0)
Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Scale--Chinese Version (2016) (0)
The effect of instrumentality/utility on student motivation as a function of the level of test anxiety (2001) (0)
The influence of basic psychological needs on goals and aspirations of Grade 11 learners at secondary schools in the Western Cape (2012) (0)
Motivational predictors of successful transition from grades 11 to 12 in South Africa (2014) (0)
Dynamics of action - atkinson,jw and birch,d (1973) (0)
Motivation and achievement - atkinson,jw and raynor,jo (1974) (0)
Parenting, Cognition and Motivation in Career Decision-making Processes: A Self Determination Theory Perspective (2016) (0)
Basic Need Satisfaction as a mediator between job charachteristics, burnout and engagement: elaborating the job demands resources model (2007) (0)
Balanced Measure of Psychological Needs Scale--Portuguese Version (2020) (0)
The association between parenting practices and the goals and aspirations of learners at secondary schools in the Western Cape (2012) (0)
The impact of future goals on motivation and learning in multicultural classrooms (2004) (0)
Promotion of Independence and Volitional Functioning Scales (2016) (0)
Joseph R. Nuttin (1909-1988) (1989) (0)
The action perspective and procrastination (1999) (0)
Analysis of motivation - german - heckhausen,h (1975) (0)
Persistence on unattractive tasks without external pressure: the role of the action identification (1999) (0)
Intrinsic and extrinsic work values influencing job characteristics and well-being: A prospective study (2012) (0)
Research on future time perspective in Belgium: an historical overview (2005) (0)
Sexual Intimacy (0)
Processes underlying volition: The role of the action perspective (1999) (0)
Student motivation and future time perspective in Belgium (2007) (0)
Extending the Job Demands Resources Model: Need satisfaction as an explanatory mechanism in the relation between job stressors, job challenges, job resources, and well-being (2007) (0)
Situation-Specific Self-Determined Motivation Measure (2016) (0)
Human motivation - book of readings - mcclelland,dc and steele,rs (1973) (0)
How to become a life-long exerciser? The importance of providing a clear, future intrinsic goal in an autonomy-supportive way (2003) (0)
Comparative study of motivational contents in projective and in direct, first person thought samples (1974) (0)

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