“Doing it” for the right reasons: Validation of a measurement of intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation for sexual relationships

The ebb and flow of sexual well-being: The contributions of basic psychological needs and autonomous and controlled sexual motivation to daily variations in sexual well-being

“…The Sexual Motivation Scale (SexMS; Gravel et al, 2016) was used to measure autonomous and controlled reasons to engage in daily sexual activities. This 24-item instrument measures the three types of motivation proposed by SDT in the context of sexual activities: intrinsic motivation, four types of extrinsic motivation (i.e., two autonomous types: integrated and identified regulation, and two controlled types: introjected and external regulation), and amotivation (for a detailed discussion, see Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000).…”

“…Cross-sectional studies suggest a relationship between engaging in sexual activities for autonomous or controlled reasons and individual differences in sexual health and well-being. Higher autonomous sexual motivation is associated with better sexual response, higher sexual satisfaction, and lower sexual distress (Boislard-Pépin et al, 2002; Gravel et al, 2016; Gravel et al, 2017). In contrast, controlled sexual motivation is linked to more problems with sexual response, lower sexual satisfaction, and higher sexual distress (Gravel et al, 2016; Gravel, et al, 2017).…”

“…Higher autonomous sexual motivation is associated with better sexual response, higher sexual satisfaction, and lower sexual distress (Boislard-Pépin et al, 2002; Gravel et al, 2016; Gravel et al, 2017). In contrast, controlled sexual motivation is linked to more problems with sexual response, lower sexual satisfaction, and higher sexual distress (Gravel et al, 2016; Gravel, et al, 2017). Research on women’s sexual submission has also highlighted that lowered sexual autonomy was a mechanism in the association between sexual submissiveness and sexual dissatisfaction (for a review, see Sanchez et al, 2012).…”

Intrinsic motivation as a mediator of the relationship between organizational support and quantitative workload and work‐related fatigue

“…First, we borrowed the concept of intrinsic motivation and applied it to work‐related fatigue. Though many studies have discussed intrinsic motivation in the psychological domain (Gravel, Pelletier, & Reissing, ; Ryan & Deci, ), to our knowledge, few have applied this concept specifically to fatigue; hence, this study fills a gap by applying intrinsic motivation to work‐related fatigue and identifying its mediating role in the relationship between organizational support (i.e., supervisor support and coworker support) and work‐related fatigue as well as between quantitative workload and work‐related fatigue.…”

Inviting Autonomy Back to the Table: The Importance of Autonomy for Healthy Relationship Functioning

“…In a separate study (Gravel, Pelletier, & Reissing, , 590 undergraduate students, 76% female, 93% heterosexual, average relationship length of 1.8 years), women who had higher levels of autonomous motivations for engaging in sex had lower levels of sexual distress and sexual pain and higher levels of sexual satisfaction, sexual desire, sexual arousal, lubrication, and orgasm. For men, more controlled (less autonomous) motivations for engaging in sex were correlated with higher levels of sexual distress and greater sexual dysfunction.…”