Mindset and perceived parental support of autonomy safeguard adolescents' autonomous motivation during COVID-19 home-based learning.

ABSTRACT: During school closures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, less support from peers and teachers may have required more autonomous motivation from adolescents. Little is known about factors that could shield against these negative effects. Driven by two influential motivational theories, we examined how mindset, feelings of school burnout and the three basic psychological needs of the self-determination theory, could predict changes in autonomous motivation when controlling for pre-pandemic levels of motivation. The results from a sample of Dutch adolescents (M_age = 14.63 years) and their parents (M_age = 48.65 years) showed that endorsing a growth mindset was positively associated with autonomous motivation during the school closures, while feelings of school burnout wer

SUBMITTER: Benneker IMB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9883818 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature