Psychology Wiki  Self-Determination Theory  34,114pages on this
wiki    Self-determination theory (SDT) is a general theory of
human motivation concerned with the development and functioning
of personality within social contexts. The theory focuses on the
degree to which human behaviors are volitional or self-
determined - that is, the degree to which people endorse their
actions at the highest level of reflection and engage in the
actions with a full sense of choice. Over the past three decades
SDT has evolved into a set of four mini-theories that share the
organismic-dialectical meta-theory and the concept of basic
needs. Self-determination theory has been brought to many
applied settings such as education, health care, parenting, work
organizations, sports, and mental health.  Self-Determination
and Organismic-dialectical Meta-TheoryEdit  SDT is based on an
organismic-dialectical meta-theory, which begins with the
assumption that people are active organisms, with innate
tendencies toward psychological growt