The Influence Of Autonomy Support For High School Students' Values

Values is an important subject of philosophy,politics,pedagogy and psychology.Self-determination theory defined individual values as �Which contain a specific behavior or existence of the ultimate state of enduring convictions,with individual or society's preferences�.It considers that values are based on individual needs,can be divided into Materialism values and Intrinsic values.Individual needs satisfaction is impacted of the important person at family and school.This study discussed the development of high school students' explicit values and the implicit values with the independent support from parents and teachers,and the basic psychological needs.The study included the following three studies:Study 1: Aspiration Index questionnaire were used in the sample of 657 high school students to explore the development characteristics of Materialism values and Intrinsic values.It include the key senior high school and the ordinary high school.The results showed: High school students Intrinsic values score higher than the values of material.The development of high school students' materialism values exist significant differences in gender and grade.The development of high school students' Intrinsic values exist significant differences in school types.Study 2: Aspiration Index questionnaire,the Scale of Parents' Autonomy Support,the Scale of Teacher's Autonomy Support and Basic Psychological Needs Scales were used in the sample of 657 high school students to explore the development characteristics of Explicit materialism values and Intrinsic values,autonomy support from their parents,autonomy support from their teacher's and basic psychological needs(related need,competence need,autonomy need).In order to discuss how the basic psychological needs and autonomy support influence on high school students' explicit values.The results showed: In the ordinary high school,the autonomy support could affect students' explicit intrinsic values through their related need.Focus on high school students,the autonomy support could affect students' explicit intrinsic values through their related need and autonomy need.In the Two types of schools,the basic psychological needs' intermediary role between autonomy support andexplicit materialism values were not significant.Study 3: The studies used a Go/No-go Association Task(GNAT)to investigate 61 high school students' implicit Materialism values and Intrinsic values.Explore whether high school students' values have implicit characteristics of unconscious and automation.At the same time,discuss the basic psychological need to autonomy support and its influence on high school students implicit values.The results showed: High school students' values exist implicit effect.The autonomy support could affect students' implicit values through their autonomy need.The results of this study showed that:(1)For explicit values,In the ordinary high school,the autonomy support could affect students' explicit intrinsic values through their related need.In the high school,the autonomy support could affect students' explicit intrinsic values through their related need and autonomy need.In the Two types of schools,the basic psychological needs' intermediary role between autonomy support and explicit materialism values were not significant.(2)For implicit values,the autonomy support could affect students' implicit values through their autonomy need.