The Significance of Autonomy and Autonomy Support in Psychological Development and Psychopathology

By Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci, W. Grolnick, J. La Guardia. 2015

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures (2015, background): “Whereas low need fulfillment would fail to foster the growth potential of individuals, the frustration of these needs would elicit defensiveness, ill-being, and even psychopathology (Bartholomew et al. 2011; Ryan et al. 2006; Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013).”
Autonomy and autonomy disturbances in self-development and psychopathology: Research on motivation, attachment, and clinical process (2016, background): “Dissociative disorders thus fundamentally represent a substantial breakdown in self-integration (Ryan et al., 2006).”
On Psychological Growth and Vulnerability: Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration as a Unifying Principle (2013, background): “This is exemplified in persons with borderline personality disorder, for whom problems of self-regulation are chronic and who nearly invariantly report histories of severe need thwarting and maltreatment (Ryan et al., 2006).”
Promoting Optimal Parenting and Children’s Mental Health: A Preliminary Evaluation of the How-to Parenting Program (2014, background): “…basic need for autonomy is thwarted, it leads children either to (1) internalize requests and self-regulate, but in a rigid and pressured way (internalizing problems; Deci and Flaste 1995; Ryan et al. 2006) or (2) reject parental requests and fail to self-regulate (externalizing problems).”
Associations Between Parental Psychological Control and Autonomy Support, and Psychological Outcomes in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration (2015, neutral): “Parental autonomy support refers to the active support of the child ’ s capacity to be self-initiating and autonomous (Ryan et al. 2006) and is not akin to promoting permissiveness, or neglect.”