Motivating voluntary compliance to behavioural restrictions : self-determination theory–based checklist of principles for COVID-19 and other emergency communications
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- Frank Martela, Nelli Hankonen, Richard M. Ryan and Maarten Vansteenkiste (UGent)
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- Abstract
- An effective response to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic is dependent on the public voluntarily adhering to governmental rules and guidelines. How the guidelines are communicated can significantly affect whether people will experience a sense of self-initiation and volition, protecting compliance from eroding. From the perspective of Self-Determination Theory, a broad theory on human motivation and its interpersonal determinants, effective communication involves the delicate combination of providing rules and structure in a caring and autonomy-supportive way. Research in applied domains from public messaging to education and health has shown that when social agents set limits in more autonomy-supportive, caring, and competence-fostering ways, it predicts autonomous forms of compliance, which in turn predict greater adherence and long-term persistence. Building on SDT, integrated with insights from social identity theory, we derive a practice-focused checklist with key communication guidelines to foster voluntary compliance in national crises such as the prevention of COVID-19 spread.
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- Social Psychology, Autonomy-support, crisis response, self-determination theory, interpersonal interaction, motivational style
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8717681
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- Martela, Frank, et al. “Motivating Voluntary Compliance to Behavioural Restrictions : Self-Determination Theory–Based Checklist of Principles for COVID-19 and Other Emergency Communications.” EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 32, no. 2, 2021, pp. 305–47, doi:10.1080/10463283.2020.1857082.
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- Martela, F., Hankonen, N., Ryan, R. M., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2021). Motivating voluntary compliance to behavioural restrictions : self-determination theory–based checklist of principles for COVID-19 and other emergency communications. EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 32(2), 305–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2020.1857082
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- Martela, Frank, Nelli Hankonen, Richard M. Ryan, and Maarten Vansteenkiste. 2021. “Motivating Voluntary Compliance to Behavioural Restrictions : Self-Determination Theory–Based Checklist of Principles for COVID-19 and Other Emergency Communications.” EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 32 (2): 305–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2020.1857082.
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- Martela, Frank, Nelli Hankonen, Richard M. Ryan, and Maarten Vansteenkiste. 2021. “Motivating Voluntary Compliance to Behavioural Restrictions : Self-Determination Theory–Based Checklist of Principles for COVID-19 and Other Emergency Communications.” EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 32 (2): 305–347. doi:10.1080/10463283.2020.1857082.
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- 1.Martela F, Hankonen N, Ryan RM, Vansteenkiste M. Motivating voluntary compliance to behavioural restrictions : self-determination theory–based checklist of principles for COVID-19 and other emergency communications. EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2021;32(2):305–47.
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- [1]F. Martela, N. Hankonen, R. M. Ryan, and M. Vansteenkiste, “Motivating voluntary compliance to behavioural restrictions : self-determination theory–based checklist of principles for COVID-19 and other emergency communications,” EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 305–347, 2021.
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