Introjected Regulation Of Extrinsic Motivation

person, whether to avoid negative sanctions or to be rewarded (positive consequences). For instance, a student who does an assignment either to receive teacher’s praise or to keep away from parental confrontation is externally regulated (Deci, et al., 1991; Deci & Ryan, 2002). Introjected regulation portrays the first phase of the internalization process. This form of extrinsic motivation demonstrates that the regulation is not yet integrated, it is just taking in a regulation without making it equal to oneself in order to avoid feeling guilty. It submits that individuals commence to internalize merely the rationale for their actions. Nonetheless, there is no viable potentiality to consider this form of motivation as fully self-determined in virtue of its constraints on behaviour by external contingencies (Vallerand & Bissonnette, 1992). To illustrate, we can take the example of “a student who gets to class on time to avoid feeling like a bad person is regulated by introjected …show more content…
When the person starts to appreciate the significance of the behaviour, to perceive it as personally-chosen, to identify, and to accept the regulatory process, he/she is, subsequently, deemed to be regulated by identification. According to Deci and Ryan(2002,p.17), “regulation through identification involves a conscious valuing of a behavioural goal or regulation, an acceptance of the behaviour as personally important.” Since identification permits volition, behaviour, under this form of extrinsic motivation, is regarded self-determined (the person can feel a sense of volition) than behaviour controlled by external regulation or introjected regulation. To illustrate we can use the example of “a boy in high school who decides to get up an hour earlier to review his chemistry notes because he feels it is personally important to do so” (Vallerand & Ratelle, 2002, p.43). In this example, the boy’s