Different ways of knowing a child and their relations to mother‐reported autonomy support

Mageau, Geneviève A.; Sherman, Amanda; Grusec, Joan E.; Koestner, Richard; Bureau, Julien S.

doi:10.1111/sode.12212

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“…Such a radical perspective would not only be pragmatically naïve, it would also be theoretically inconsistent with the very idea of what need-supportive socializing agents do. That is, inherent to the practice of need support is that socializing agents take both personal characteristics (e.g., personality, preferences) and situational circumstances into account to maximize participants' need-satisfying experiences (Mabbe et al 2020;Mageau et al 2017). Thus, need-supportive socialization implies ongoing calibration of one's approach to others (Vansteenkiste et al 2019).…”

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Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

2020

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The study of basic psychological needs has witnessed a strong revival, in part spurred by Basic Psychological Need Theory (BPNT), one of the six mini-theories within Self-Determination Theory. Empirical studies on BPNT have increased exponentially since the millennium turn, leading to refinements and extensions in theory. In this contribution we review these two decades of research in order to introduce two special issues on BPNT. We first discuss key criteria that define and identify a basic need within BPNT. We then review several need-relevant themes, highlighting advancements and trends that characterize contemporary research on BPNT. Specifically, we address potential extensions of the shortlist of basic psychological needs, the role of psychological need frustration in increasing vulnerability to maladjustment, the study of the interface between individuals' psychological and physical needs (e.g., sleep, sex, hunger), novel insights into critical need-supportive and need-thwarting practices, and the universality (versus variability) of effects of need satisfactions and supports across demographics, psychological characteristics, and cultural contexts. We also situate each of the 19 contributions that appear in this special double-issue on BPNT within these themes, while suggesting avenues for further research on the role of basic psychological needs in motivation, adjustment, and wellness.

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Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

2020

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“…Within SDT, the organization of behavior has always been deeply conceptualized in terms of people’s natural and spontaneous integrative tendencies to engage, assimilate, and connect. Simultaneously, SDT also concerns the factors in physical (e.g., Chen, Van Assche et al, ; Weinstein & Stone, ) and social (e.g., Mageau, Sherman, Grusec, Koestner, & Bureau, ) environments that facilitate or inhibit these tendencies. In addressing these issues, SDT has in an abiding way embraced empirical approaches, and the goal of fitting its methods and findings into the larger framework of the life sciences (Ryan & Deci, ).…”

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“…But the use of other methods and designs is abundant. The SDT literature is replete with experimental (e.g., Benita, Shane, Elgali, & Roth, ; Deci et al, ; Wuyts, Vansteenkiste, Mabbe, & Soenens, ), longitudinal (e.g., Mageau et al, ), and experience‐sampling studies (Ryan, Bernstein, & Brown, ; Thomaes, Sedikides, van den Bos, Hutteman, & Reijntjes, ), and SDT studies make use of a variety of “third person” and non‐self‐report methods including behavior observations (e.g., Ahmad, Vansteenkiste, & Soenens, ; Haerens et al, ), (neuro)physiological assessments (e.g., Reeve & Tseng, ), priming procedures (e.g., Radel, Sarazin, & Pelletier, ; Weinstein, Hodgins, & Ryan, ), and implicit measures (e.g., Ryan & Grolnick, ; Van Assche, Van der Kaap‐Deeder, De Schryver, Audenaert, & Vansteenkiste, ). SDT thus has always been based on convergent sources of evidence that include both objective methods as well as the important information that can come from self‐reports and third‐party ratings (e.g., Ratelle, Morin, Guay, & Duchesne, ).…”

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Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

Ryan

Soenens

Vansteenkiste

2018

Journal of Personality

104

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Objective This special issue focuses on self‐determination theory (SDT) as an integrative framework for the wider field of personality research. In this commentary our aims include: reflecting on the utility and strengths of SDT as such a general framework and responding to the various contributions in this issue regarding their use of SDT as a guiding, complementary, or contrasting framework. Methods and Results We describe how SDT has developed organically and conservatively from “within” based on the emerging patterns of evidence, as well through the ongoing challenges from other models and frameworks. We then discuss each of the various contributions to this special issue, addressing themes that include SDT’s breadth of methods, and its relevance to topics such as narcissism, wisdom, individual differences, Big‐Five traits, and the neuropsychology of motivation, among others. Across these discussions, we highlight fruitful avenues for research and cross‐fertilization across the fields of personality, development, motivation, and neuroscience. At the same time, we counter some claims made about SDT, and forward certain cautions regarding the integration of SDT and other personality frameworks and models. Conclusions We conclude by revisiting the value of broad theory, and SDT in particular, for coordinating complex research findings concerning motivation, personality development and wellness across multiple levels of analysis and, perhaps more importantly, for pointing researchers to the right questions within today’s prolific empiricism.

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“…Parents who take the perspective of their children have a better chance of identifying misunderstandings or reasons for misbehavior and, therefore, a better chance of engaging in interventions that will facilitate compliance. Mothers of young adolescents who reported that they took the perspective of their adolescent, for example, increased their autonomy supportive behavior over the course of 2 years (Mageau, Sherman, Grusec, Koestner, & Bureau, in press). Lundell, Grusec, McShane, and Davidov (2008), asked adolescents to talk about recent disagreements they had had with their mothers and to say what they had hoped to accomplish during the disagreement.…”

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Perspectives on parent discipline and child outcomes

Grusec

Danyliuk

Kil

et al. 2017

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Effective discipline involves the use of negative consequences, including reasoning as well as modest levels of power assertion, to discourage unacceptable behavior. A brief history of changing views of discipline is presented and recent positions outlined. Successful discipline requires the imposition of clear and consistent rules, autonomy support, perspective-taking, and acceptance rather than rejection of the child. There are different kinds of negative consequences that are evaluated differently by children as well as having different effects on their behavior. In addition, there are individual differences in how children react to a specific form of discipline, and parents need to be aware of what those differences are. Cultural research underlines the fact that the meaning children assign to specific parenting actions is crucial in determining discipline success. When discipline is seen as normative, fair, and a sign of caring its form, within limits, is less important.

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Different ways of knowing a child and their relations to mother‐reported autonomy support

Abstract: We considered how different forms of child knowledge (i.e., mothers'

Cited by 27 publications

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Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

Perspectives on parent discipline and child outcomes

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