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dc.contributor.authorHagger, Martin
dc.contributor.authorKoch, Severine
dc.contributor.authorChatzisarantis, Nikos
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:12:19Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:12:19Z
dc.date.created2014-09-29T20:00:20Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationHagger, M. and Koch, S. and Chatzisarantis, N. 2015. The effect of causality orientations and positive competence-enhancing feedback on intrinsic motivation: A test of additive and interactive effects. Personality and Individual Differences. 72: pp. 107-111.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9379
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.012
dc.description.abstract

Based on self-determination theory, this study investigated whether individual differences in autonomy or control causality orientation and positive competence-enhancing feedback have additive or interactive effects on intrinsic motivation. Autonomy- or control-oriented participants provided solutions to an interesting puzzle under conditions of positive competence-enhancing feedback or no feedback. Time spent solving the puzzle during a subsequent free-choice period constituted the dependent measure of intrinsic motivation. Autonomy-oriented individuals spent significantly longer on the puzzle than control-oriented participants regardless of feedback condition. Analogously, positive feedback increased time spent on the puzzle compared to no feedback regardless of causality orientation. Findings indicate that dispositional motivational orientations and feedback provided by social agents can enhance intrinsic motivation but the effects are additive rather than interactive.

dc.publisherElsevier Sciences Ltd
dc.subjectCausality orientations
dc.subjectCompetence
dc.subjectBasic needs
dc.subjectAutonomy
dc.subjectSelf-determination theory
dc.titleThe effect of causality orientations and positive competence-enhancing feedback on intrinsic motivation: A test of additive and interactive effects
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume72
dcterms.source.startPage107
dcterms.source.endPage111
dcterms.source.issn0191-8869
dcterms.source.titlePersonality and Individual Differences
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NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 72. (2015). doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.012

curtin.departmentSchool of Psychology
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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