From Ego Depletion to Vitality: Theory and Findings Concerning the Facilitation of Energy Available to the Self

By Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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On the psychological and motivational processes linking job characteristics to employee functioning: Insights from self-determination theory (2015, background): “…which is fully self-endorsed, sparks interest, promotes energy maintenance and enhancement (vitality and vigour; Grant, Nurmohamed, Ashford, & Dekas, 2011; Ryan & Deci, 2008), and orients the deployment of this energy towards meaningful and purposeful actions (job performance; Ryan & Deci, 2008).”
A self‐determination theory approach to understanding stress incursion and responses (2011, background): “SDT posits that one characteristic of autonomous responding that has only recently received attention is interest-taking (Ryan & Deci, 2008), or the desire for new knowledge and experience (e.g. Litman, 2005).”
Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives (2010, background): “…to test pathways for these links with vitality—for example, whether hedonic activities provide new psychological energy through physical repose, whereas eudaimonia activates energy that a person already has, perhaps by satisfying psychological needs for competence (see Ryan and Deci 2008).”
Loneliness, college belongingness, subjective vitality, and psychological adjustment during coronavirus pandemic: Development of the College Belongingness Questionnaire (2020, background): “People who have high subjective vitality report being more active and productive, having better coping with challenges, and having more robust psychological health and wellbeing (Kawabata et al., 2017; Ryan & Deci, 2008; Uğur et al., 2019).”
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being (2021, background): “More specifically, a person’s vitality is composed of higher energy, more feelings of vigor, greater activated positive affect, and more calm energy (Ryan & Deci, 2008).”
Benefits of mindfulness at work: the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. (2013, background): “In contrast, mindfulness promotes autonomous self-regulation (Brown & Ryan, 2003), which preserves vitality and energy (Ryan & Deci, 2008).”
A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Social, Institutional, Cultural, and Economic Supports for Autonomy and Their Importance for Well-Being (2011, background): “In pursuing intrinsically motivated activities, people experience intrinsic need satisfaction, and restoration from ego-depletion due to external control ( Ryan & Deci, 2008a ).”
When helping helps: autonomous motivation for prosocial behavior and its influence on well-being for the helper and recipient. (2010, background): “Additionally, vitality specifically examines energy and aliveness that is free from tension or distress (Ryan & Deci, 2008).”
A self-determination theory approach to psychotherapy: The motivational basis for effective change. (2008, background): “Previous research has shown that greater mindfulness is associated with both more autonomous regulation and more subjective vitality, or the experience of energy being available to the self (Ryan & Deci, 2008).”
Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness (2017, background): “Study of the social environmental factors that facilitate intrinsic motivation led to a theory and measurement strategy regarding vitality (Ryan and Deci 2008), which is an indicator of both mental and physical wellness.”
Work or Fun? How Task Construal and Completion Influence Regulatory Behavior (2011, positive): “The initial volitional behavior involved making a series of difficult choices involving tradeoffs among three options with negatively correlated attributes, adapted from Wang et al. (2010). Choices involving difficult trade-offs have been used successfully in prior studies on regulatory failure (Dew”
Brick by Brick: The Origins, Development, and Future of Self-Determination Theory (2019, background): “In a somewhat older group, Tsai, Kunter, Lüdtke, Trautwein and Ryan (2008) found that day to day variations in teacher autonomy support affect day-to-day variations in student interest.”
Some Benefits of Being an Activist: Measuring Activism and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being (2009, methodology): “To this end, we assessed meaning in life, the satisfaction of basic psychological needs that are theoretically proposed to be satisfied when one is intrinsically motivated for a task, and, in Study 3, the sense of vitality, which is theorized to reflect the energy of the self (Ryan & Deci, 2008).”
Day-to-day Variation in Autonomy-Supportive and Psychologically Controlling Parenting: The Role of Parents’ Daily Experiences of Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration (2018, positive): “This argument follows from the overall assumption in SDT that need satisfaction enhances energy available to the self (Ryan & Deci, 2008), an assumption that received empirical support in studies showing positive associations between need satisfaction and experiences of vitality (which involve…”
Happy and Proactive? The Role of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well–Being in Business Owners’ Personal Initiative (2012, background): “Self-determinatio theory predicts that activities which satisfy psychological needs for relatedness, competenc , and autonomy will result in energy maintenance or enhancement (Ryan & Deci, 2008).”
Self-determination theory: A macrotheory of human motivation, development, and health. (2008, background): “Autonomous regulation is not depleting but can instead be vitalizing, and indeed SDT posits that whereas controlled motives drain energy, actions that lead to need satisfaction can actually enhance energy available for self-regulation ( Ryan & Deci, 2008b ).”