How Could Self-Determination Theory Be Useful for Facing Health Innovation Challenges?

Abstract

This paper offers a presentation of the characteristics of self-determination theory (SDT) in the health context as well as attempts to identify how this theory could be useful for facing health innovation challenges. Health innovation is based on scientific advances that have more complex relationships with health. This paper encourages the use of the SDT approach to face health innovation, both for physiological and pathological processes. In particular, the focus is on the changes and lifestyle choices related to physiological pregnancy and birth and to oncological genetic tests in the Italian context. The health innovation paradigm focuses on patients taking responsibility for making important health-related choices, and we think that SDT can offer new stimuli in light of the changes implemented from innovations in the field of health. The aim is that this manuscript will stimulate researchers to test the potential of this theory in the field of changing health-related processes. Practitioners are called upon to revise their orientation toward patients and, according to SDT, they should support autonomy rather than control the promotion of health-related change.

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“…We applied a concoction of the self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2000) and the social identity theory (SIT; Turner & Tajfel, 1986) to explain how student’s relatedness, social identity, group norms can drive overall satisfaction and impact their healthy and learning outcomes. SDT posits that an individual’s social environment is related to their overall well-being, based on the tenets of autonomy, relatedness, and competence (Migliorini et al, 2019; Ryan & Deci, 2000). For example, interaction through friendship making can improve one’s relatedness.…”

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“…The autonomous motivation, in the interpretation of Deci and Ryan (1985) [31], represents the highest level of development, the maturity that permits one to independently adjust one's action in agreement with the surrounding environment and to reach good satisfaction in the interpersonal relationships, as well as a sense of self-realization. Literature underlines that being autonomous supports internalization of values, awareness of intrapersonal dynamics and their relation to behavior, and satisfaction of the basic psychological needs in line with the psychosocial approach [32,33].…”

Understanding Factors Affecting Innovation Resistance of Mobile Payments in Taiwan: An Integrative Perspective

“…For example, studies apply the self-determination theory in the field of broadcasting intention on Twitch [43]. Migliorini and Cardinali [44] employed the self-determination theory approach on customers facing health innovation challenges.…”

“…Students with higher degrees of competence achieve better performance in the learning process [53] and are thus more willing to take up a new course or tackle new challenges. Competence refers to the feeling that one is able to act in the environment and to reach a desired goal [44]. It is employed by the current study to discuss the innovation resistance.…”

“…Relatedness refers to the need to maintain a relationship in a social environment [44], which is important to increase a perception of belonging [59]. When people feel connected with a specific brand or company, that attachment influences their choice of new smart phone [60], but if that connection is missing, perceived risk or perceived complexity may result from the unfamiliarity of an unknown product.…”