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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pelikan, Elisabeth Rosa
• Grützmacher, Luisa
• Hager, Katharina
• Holzer, Julia
• Korlat, Selma
• Mayerhofer, Martin
• Schober, Barbara
• Spiel, Christiane
• Lüftenegger, Marko

Titel

The Role of Basic Need Satisfaction for Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 2023-07, Vol.231 (3), p.228-238

Ort / Verlag

Hogrefe Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

PsycArticles (EBSCO)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.