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The 20 pages that link to Self-determination theory, each with the reason it gives.

• MotivationRelated: It explains how need satisfaction supports more self-directed and persistent action.

• AlienationCompared with: It studies workplace autonomy and connection through psychological needs rather than Marx’s critique of ownership.

• Educational psychologyRelated: Its three psychological needs help explain students’ engagement and persistence.

• Humanistic psychologyRelated: Its focus on agency and growth echoes humanistic concerns while providing a formal motivational framework.

• Intrinsic motivationRelated: It explains how autonomy, competence, and relatedness foster intrinsically motivated activity.

• Learned helplessnessRelated: Its focus on autonomy connects perceived control to motivation and well-being.

• DesireRelated: It distinguishes autonomous motivation from conduct driven by external incentives or pressure.

• Positive psychologyRelated: Its needs-based account explains how supportive conditions can foster motivation and well-being.

• Goal settingCompared with: It highlights the quality and source of motivation, not only the target’s difficulty.

• GamificationRelated: It identifies psychological needs that gamified systems can support or frustrate.

• Player agencyRelated: Its account of autonomy helps explain why meaningful control can support motivation.

• Employee engagementRelated: Its basic psychological needs help explain conditions that sustain engaged work.

• Person-Centered TherapyRelated: Its account of autonomy and growth offers a later motivational framework with points of contact with Rogers’s assumptions.

• Abraham MaslowCompared with: It offers a later needs-based model that differs from Maslow’s hierarchical arrangement.

• SolitudeRelated: Its emphasis on autonomy helps explain why chosen solitude can feel different from imposed isolation.

• Self-ActualizationCompared with: It offers a more empirically developed account of growth motivation than Maslow’s hierarchy.

• Recreational sportRelated: These needs help explain why choice, skill development, and belonging support continued participation.

• Maslow's hierarchy of needsCompared with: It offers a different account of fundamental needs and how they support growth.

• Peer pressureRelated: It helps distinguish choices driven by personal endorsement from choices made to secure acceptance.

• ERG theoryCompared with: It provides a distinct framework for interpreting intrinsic motivation and workplace support.