“…Research in different domains, such as education (Williams & Deci, 1996), sports (Li & Harmer, 1996;Vallerand & Fortier, 1998), work (Blais, Brière, Lachance, Riddle, & Vallerand, 1993), and health care (Williams, Grow, Freedman, Ryan, & Deci, 1996), has supported that the types of motivation form a simplex-like pattern (Guttman, 1954) that represents variation in the underlying degree of internalization, which means that each subscale correlates most positively with adjacent subscales (e.g., intrinsic and identified regulation) and less positively or more negatively with nonadjacent subscales (e.g., intrinsic and external regulation). However, even if they are on one continuum, research has repeatedly shown that there is a clear break in the consequences of each type of motivation.…”