The importance of autonomy for rural Chinese children's motivation for learning |
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| Authors: | Mingming Zhou Wei Ji Ma Edward L Deci |
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| Institution: | aFaculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A1S6;bDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA;cDepartment of Psychology, P.O. Box 270266, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14610, USA |
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| Abstract: | Two studies applied self-determination theory (SDT) to investigate the motivation for learning of rural Chinese children. The aim was to test whether findings from studies in western individualist cultures would hold up within a very different, eastern collectivist setting. In the first study, when students' autonomous and controlled motivation for a course were entered simultaneously in a regression analysis, autonomous motivation uniquely positively predicted students' perceptions of interest, competence, and choice in the course, whereas controlled motivation uniquely negatively predicted perceptions of interest and choice. In the second study students' perceptions of instructors' autonomy support during the course predicted changes in autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, and perceived competence. These results were discussed in terms of SDT and culture. |
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| Keywords: | Motivation in China Autonomous motivation for learning Autonomy-supportive teaching Self-determination theory |
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