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The general causality orientations scale: Self-determination in personality

Edward L. Deci, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1985 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 2, pp 109-134
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In this paper, the authors describe the development and validation of a general causality orientations scale, which measures autonomy, control, and impersonal orientations of a person's behavior.
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This article is published in Journal of Research in Personality.The article was published on 1985-06-01. It has received 3379 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nomological network.

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The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

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Self‐determination theory and work motivation

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The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Self-Compassion

TL;DR: The Self-Compassion Scale as discussed by the authors is a self-compassion measure that measures the amount of self-love one has towards oneself in instances of pain or failure rather than being harshly self-critical.
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Toward A Hierarchical Model of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

TL;DR: The Hierarchical model provides a framework to organize the literature on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, as well as to identify the psychological mechanisms underlying motivational changes, and to lead to novel and testable hypotheses.

Overview of self-determination theory: An organismic-dialectical perspective.

TL;DR: In the classical, Aristotelian view of human development, people arc assumed to possess an active tendency toward psychological growth and integration as discussed by the authors, which is complemented by a tendency toward synthesis, organization, or relative unity of both knowledge and personality.
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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
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Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the development of Causality Orientations Theory, a theory of personality Influences on Motivation, and its application in information-Processing Theories.
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The psychology of interpersonal relations

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Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory.

TL;DR: Buss and Scheier as mentioned in this paper constructed a scale to assess individual differences in self-consciou sness and found that self-consciousness has three components: public, private, and social anxiety.
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The social psychology of creativity

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