Contemporary Issues in Health and Exercise

HPP301

Week Nine

Learning Outcomes

• Recap of behavioural regulation

• Intrinsic motivation

• Q&A session if needed

• Appropriate reading

• Tutorial time is required

Motivation

• “To be motivated means to be moved to do something. A person who feels no impetus or inspiration to act is thus characterized as unmotivated, whereas someone who is energized or activated toward an end is considered motivated” (Ryan & Deci, 2000)

How Much Motivation?

• Moth theories prior to SDT attempted to measure how much motivation

• Implicit assumption that motivation is a unitary construct

• These theories and models provided an inadequate account of the evidence

What Kind of Motivation?

• Modern research examines what kind of motivation

• Evidence suggests that there are several different kinds of motivation

• These types reflect differing underlying attitudes and drives that fuel motivation

• Broadly these can be divided into: – Extrinsic refers to doing something because it leads to

a separable outcome – Intrinsic refers to doing something because it is

inherently interesting or enjoyable

Continuum of Motivation

Intrinsic Motivation

• Lies at the end of the motivational continuum

• Proposed as an explanation as to why people act without a perceived reward

• Proposed as an explanation for play and althruism

Intrinsic Motivation

• Refers to doing an activity or behaviour for its own sake

• Inherent pleasure or satisfaction derived from participation alone

• Found to contribute positively to engagement within, and quality of, learning experiences

Measurement

• How do you think intrinsic motivation can be measured? – In adults? – In children?

• Self report measures – Validated questionnaires designed to elicit intrinsic

motivation

• Free-choice paradigm – How much time to people spend doing something out

of free choice

• Ideally both

Robustness

• Intrinsic motivation is robust to a number of potentially negative situations – Persistence

– Interest

– Quality of output

• However, we have seen that it can be harmed – Undermining percieved

• Autonomy

• Competence

• Relatedness

Facilitating Intrinsic Motivation

• We should know how to do this by now… – Autonomy

• Individuals perceive that they possess agency in performing an activity or behaviour

– Competence • Individuals perceive that they possess efficacy in an activity

– Relatedness • Individuals perceive that they increase their social network

or positive regard in an activity

– This concludes the facilitating motivational change element of the module

Next Week

• Your 15 minute presentation assessment

• Tutorial time available now

• Email support available this week given reasonable notice