Developing a self-motivation intervention

Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine how to increase autonomous motivation and academic goal progress through self-autonomy support. We aimed to develop a self-autonomy support intervention that is designed to help people reframe their goals in an autonomy-supportive manner and sustain their motivation. This will consist of them setting a goal and then explicitly giving themselves a rationale for pursuing their goals, giving themselves choices when setting their goals, and empathizing with the difficulties and obstacles encountered in goal pursuit.