Self Determination and Motivation

 

 

Self Determination and Motivation

 

Self-determination and motivation go hand in hand. When you are determined, often you feel motivated to make things happen, rather than to wait for things to fall in your lap.

 

In psychological terms, self-determination is theories that presses toward motivation and the processes involve the people that strive on three basic needs. Those needs are relatedness, autonomy, and above all else, competency. Others may think of self-determination, as intrinsic inspiration that embellishes at what time the human needs is satisfied and not compromised. The autonomy of self-determination is the process of building independence, sufficiency, self-rule, and so on. People often build determination on trust, confidence, reliance, faith, hope, beliefs, and needs.

 

The world leads us into many struggles, which makes it harder for us to fulfill the three basic human needs let alone build self-determination. In order to accomplish this task, however while battling through the chaos is to set one’s self up for success.

 

The intrinsic theory of self-determination and motivation started with Edward Deci over 30-years earlier. Ed commences exploring the paradoxes of self-determination. Since then over thousands of voiced and written viewpoints has been considered. Behaviorists gave their viewpoints and showed that intrinsic theories show that when people are rewarded for good deeds it increases their natural motivation. When people are rewarded, they often feel contentment and joy as well. Their interest in activities often improve, yet because of these findings behaviorists ventured to ask: do the rewards make people more apt to function when they have extrinsic rewards waiting, or at least think that they have rewards.

 

While the questions presented thoughtful suggestion for various aspects of living, such as parenting, labor, and school, it still has variant aspects to consider before any true resolves are apparent. Ed posed the question – does a “child’s interest” in a given subject and the expectation of rewarding the child with good cause her or him to develop unintentional intrinsic or extrinsic interests? (Deci et al, 1999)

 

Edward bent on finding concrete answers ventured to continue the controversy proactive by sending mixed signals that lead to the counterintuitive forecasts. That is contrary to the expectations that are not in accord to these rewards that interact one way or the other. Edward accused intrinsic pleasures of stifling elements to learning. The common theory of self-determination suggests that relatedness, autonomy, and competence inspire motivation.

 

According to Edward, threats, rewards, all have rigid penalties that accompany the other. Edward believed that rewards only compromised an entity’s autonomy. According to Edward, the development of competence through rewards or threats could cause a person to feel pushed into doing something they ordinary did not want to do. He claims that rewards are often determined about how the individual views the results. He believed that is someone’s innate determination or motivation was compromised then it could cause them to lack self-determination. On the other hand, if the entity viewed the praise or reward as something other than a bribery or threat, thus the entity would likely feel motivated to perform.

 

This brought some spectators to believe that if an entity is placed in a social, encouraging atmosphere that it is likely that this entity would build self-determination. Parents, teachers, and others are encouraged to support and praise someone’s effort to encourage self-determination. Edward believed that placing a greater emphasis on competence rather the child’s ability to perform for rewards could build self-determination.

 

Based on the knowledge, we see that building self-determination is also the process of build self-realization. When you combine the two, it builds more productive skills, which ensures that you will succeed in most all of your endeavors.