The Relation of Mothers′ Controlling Vocalizations to Children′s Intrinsic Motivation
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Twenty-six mother-child dyads played together in a laboratory setting. Play sessions were surreptitiously videotaped (with mothers' permission), and each maternal vocalization was transcribed and coded, first into 1 of 24 categories and then ipso facto into one of three supercategories--namely, controlling, autonomy supportive, and neutral. The degree of mothers' controllingness was calculated as the percentage of vocalizations coded as controlling. This index was correlated with the intrinsic motivation of their 6- or 7-year-old children, as assessed primarily by the free-choice behavioral measure and secondarily by a child self-report measure of interest and liking for the task. Both correlations were significantly negative, thereby suggesting that the robust laboratory findings of a negative relation between controlling contexts and individuals' intrinsic motivation are directly generalizable to the domain of parenting. Results are discussed in terms of the processes that undermine intrinsic motivation and the means through which parental controllingness is communicated.
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In Deci et al. (1993), 6- to 7-year-old children's intrinsic motivation was negatively correlated with controlling vocalizations.
“Similarly, in an early study by Deci et al. (1993), 6‐ to 7‐year‐old children's intrinsic motivation was negatively correlated with controlling vocalizations (though note that controlling intentions were communicated through both sentence content and voice cues used, thus making it difficult to judge the individual contributions of each channel to the outcome).”
From Teachers' motivational prosody: A pre‐registered experimental test of children's reactions to tone of voice used by teachers (2023) · cites this paper as Deci et al., 1993
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- Authors
- Deci, E. L., Driver, R. E., Hotchkiss, L., Robbins, R. J., & Wilson, I. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester (US)
- ORCID
- Deci, Edward L.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1993-04
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 151-162
- ISSN
- 0022-0965 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2068133148
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 1.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01hd019914-08)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD-19914)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- intrinsic motivation, autonomy support, parenting, parent-child interaction, child self-report, mother-child dyads
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Child Behavior, Communication, Female, Humans, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Motivation, Play and Playthings, Verbal Behavior, Parenting
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