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35 - Autonomy-Supportive Interventions

from Part III - Behavior Change Interventions: Practical Guides to Behavior Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2020

By
Johnmarshall Reeve  and
Sung Hyeon Cheon
Edited by
Martin S. Hagger ,
Linda D. Cameron ,
Kyra Hamilton ,
Nelli Hankonen  and
Taru Lintunen
Martin S. Hagger
Affiliation:
University of California, Merced
Linda D. Cameron
Affiliation:
University of California, Merced
Kyra Hamilton
Affiliation:
Griffith University
Nelli Hankonen
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
Taru Lintunen
Affiliation:
University of Jyväskylä
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Summary

Behavior change interventions based on self-determination theory focus on promoting autonomous motivation, using autonomy support to do so. This chapter outlines the autonomy-supportive intervention program (ASIP), which helps supervisors “upgrade” the quality of their motivating style toward those they supervise, as occurs in the classroom, workplace, home, sport arenas, and health care settings. This is an important approach to behavior change because, when supervisors become more autonomy-supportive and less controlling, those they supervise tend to increase their adaptive behaviors (e.g., learning, prosocial behavior) and well-being as well as to decrease their maladaptive behaviors (e.g., disengagement, antisocial behavior) and ill-being. This chapter defines the key constructs and practices featured in the ASIP (i.e., supervisor’s motivating styles, supervisee’s psychological needs); identifies the theoretical basis and the specific mechanisms by which this intervention enables behavior change; provides an overview of what occurs during an ASIP; outlines the evidence base supporting the efficacy and benefits of the intervention; and offers step-by-step guidelines for how practitioners might carry out an ASIP in different contexts and populations.

Keywords

autonomy support training programmotivating styleautonomy-supportive motivating stylecontrolling motivating styleneed supportneed satisfactionneed frustrationdual-process model
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The Handbook of Behavior Change , pp. 510 - 522
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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