TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Basic Need Satisfaction for Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning During COVID-19
T2 - A Longitudinal Study
AU - Pelikan, Elisabeth Rosa
AU - Grützmacher, Luisa
AU - Hager, Katharina
AU - Holzer, Julia
AU - Korlat, Selma
AU - Mayerhofer, Martin
AU - Schober, Barbara
AU - Spiel, Christiane
AU - Lüftenegger, Marko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/7/18
Y1 - 2023/7/18
N2 - Higher education institutions in Austria switched to emergency distance learning in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Due to the sudden change, students and instructors scarcely had time to adjust to the new demands. Initial cross-sectional studies pointed to the risks of emergency distance learning for students’ intrinsic motivation, self-regulation, and learning behavior. We investigated the longitudinal effects between the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs (competence, autonomy, and social relatedness), intrinsic motivation, and self-regulated learning, applying a cross-lagged panel model. A sample of N = 3,286 students answered four online questionnaires between April 2020 and July 2021. All measured constructs remained stable during that time span. The satisfaction of the basic needs was cross-sectionally related to intrinsic motivation. We found no cross-lagged effects on intrinsic motivation. Self-regulated learning showed small but significant cross-lagged positive effects on intrinsic motivation at all time points. Implications and future research perspectives are discussed.
AB - Higher education institutions in Austria switched to emergency distance learning in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Due to the sudden change, students and instructors scarcely had time to adjust to the new demands. Initial cross-sectional studies pointed to the risks of emergency distance learning for students’ intrinsic motivation, self-regulation, and learning behavior. We investigated the longitudinal effects between the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs (competence, autonomy, and social relatedness), intrinsic motivation, and self-regulated learning, applying a cross-lagged panel model. A sample of N = 3,286 students answered four online questionnaires between April 2020 and July 2021. All measured constructs remained stable during that time span. The satisfaction of the basic needs was cross-sectionally related to intrinsic motivation. We found no cross-lagged effects on intrinsic motivation. Self-regulated learning showed small but significant cross-lagged positive effects on intrinsic motivation at all time points. Implications and future research perspectives are discussed.
KW - basic need satisfaction
KW - COVID-19
KW - higher education
KW - self-determination theory
KW - self-regulated learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85165492556&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1027/2151-2604/a000531
DO - 10.1027/2151-2604/a000531
M3 - Article
VL - 231
SP - 228
EP - 238
JO - Zeitschrift für Psychologie
JF - Zeitschrift für Psychologie
SN - 2190-8370
IS - 3
ER -