Autonomy and Nondefensiveness

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When winning is everything: on passion, identity, and aggression in sport. (2009, background): “Such ego-invested processes lead the person to react defensively (Hodgins et al., 2006) to self-relevant threatening information.”
The development of the five mini-theories of self-determination theory: an historical overview, emerging trends, and future directions (2010, background): “Control-primed individuals also experienced lower implicit self-worth (Hodgins et al., 2007) and displayed poorer performance on a rowing machine (Hodgins et al., 2006, Study 3).”
On Passion for Life Activities (2010, background): “This is because of their defensive mode of functioning that leads them to be highly motivated to defend against any threat that is targeted at the self (see Hodgins et al., 2006).”
On Psychological Growth and Vulnerability: Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration as a Unifying Principle (2013, background): “For instance, Hodgins et al. (2006) showed that control-primed, relative to autonomy-primed, participants listed more self-handicapping excuses to protect a drop in their self-worth prior to engaging in an achievement task.”