Promoting students' autonomous motivation for the ongoing curriculum using a 'Societal Impact Project' with basic psychological needs characteristics.
Purpose: Autonomous motivation is important for university students, but it remains a challenge to stimulate their autonomous motivation for their curricula. We developed an extracurricular intervention (Societal Impact Project) with basic psychological needs supportive characteristics such as learn...
| Published in: | Medical Teacher Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 955 - 963 |
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| Format: | clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=185286722&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 185286722 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 0142159X MCH jtl: Medical Teacher issn: 0142159X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2025 vid: 47 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 185286722 179571241 185286722 185286722 10.1080/0142159X.2024.2388804 185286722 ppf: 955 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Promoting students' autonomous motivation for the ongoing curriculum using a 'Societal Impact Project' with basic psychological needs characteristics. aug: au: Zhu, Yuanyuan Dolmans, Diana Kusurkar, Rashmi A. Köhler, S. Eleonore Abidi, Latifa Savelberg, Hans affil: Department of Educational Development and Research, School of Health Professions Education, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands sug: subj: Curriculum Relational Autonomy Human Needs (Psychology) Motivation Students, Medical Psychosocial Factors Outcomes of Education Human Netherlands Male Female Adolescence Adult Quasi-Experimental Studies Clinical Trials Comparative Studies Descriptive Statistics Pretest-Posttest Design Psychological Well-Being Happiness Quality of Life Values Clarification Psychological Theory Learning Environment, Clinical Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: Purpose: Autonomous motivation is important for university students, but it remains a challenge to stimulate their autonomous motivation for their curricula. We developed an extracurricular intervention (Societal Impact Project) with basic psychological needs supportive characteristics such as learning with self-defined problems relevant to curriculum and society, collaborative group work, and coaching by a teacher. This study aims at evaluating the intervention in fostering students' autonomous motivation for their regular curricula. Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental study, using between-group pre- and post-test design. Participants from the intervention and control group completed a survey before and after the intervention, which measured the satisfaction of three basic psychological needs, autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, enjoyment, value, and well-being within their regular curricula. We compared the post-test differences between the two groups while controlling for pre-test scores. Results: Students in the intervention group had greater enjoyment in their regular curricula and perceived their regular curricula to have more value compared to students in the control group. The other variables did not differ significantly between the two groups in the post-test. Conclusion: The intervention is effective for improving students' enjoyment and perceived value in their regular curricula. The variables with non-significant differences indicate the difficulty to alter students' basic psychological needs and motivation in their regular curricula, even after participating in a long-term intervention. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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