An autonomy-supportive intervention to develop students’ resilience by boosting agentic engagement

• Published in: International journal of behavioral development Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 325 - 338
• Main Authors: Reeve, Johnmarshall, Cheon, Sung Hyeon, Yu, Tae Ho
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2020; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Autonomy; Classrooms; Discontent; Disengagement; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; High School Students; Instructional Program Divisions; Intervention; Learner Engagement; Males; Men; Middle School Students; Participant Satisfaction; Passivity; Personal Autonomy; Physical education; Physical Education Teachers; Professional Autonomy; Professional Development; Psychological Needs; Resilience; Resilience (Psychology); Structural Equation Models; Student Empowerment; Student Participation; Student Satisfaction; Students; Teacher Student Relationship; Teachers; Teaching; South Korea; need dissatisfaction; autonomy; Agency; autonomy support; agentic engagement; self-determination theory

In the face of everyday classroom challenges, students display resilience by responding with increased agentic engagement. We hypothesized that this tendency toward greater initiative and lesser passivity was both an outcome of autonomy need satisfaction and autonomy-supportive teaching and a predic...