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Toward a Systematic Study of the Dark Side of Student Motivation: Antecedents and Consequences of Teachers’ Controlling Behaviors

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During the past few years, SDT scholars have progressively developed knowledge that helps to better understand the roots of students’ maladaptive motivational functioning. This body of work was advanced by the recognition that the frustration of the psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness plays a distinct role in the elicitation of maladaptive motivational functioning. Given the presumed critical role of experiences of need frustration, an increasing number of studies have shed light on the role of need thwarting in general and controlling teaching in particular in the prediction of defiance and other maladaptive outcomes at school. This rapidly growing body of work, which has either made use of self-reports or observations of controlling teaching, is reviewed herein. In addition, we provide an overview of previous studies on antecedents of controlling teaching and sketch a number of research directions for future research. The chapter closes with a set of practical recommendations for teachers.

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Haerens, L., Vansteenkiste, M., Aelterman, N., Van den Berghe, L. (2016). Toward a Systematic Study of the Dark Side of Student Motivation: Antecedents and Consequences of Teachers’ Controlling Behaviors. In: Liu, W., Wang, J., Ryan, R. (eds) Building Autonomous Learners. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-630-0_4

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