“…The theory has been used to examine motivational influences on various behaviours including physical activity (Fortier, Williams, Sweet, & Patrick, 2009;Teixeira, Carraca, Markland, Silva, & Ryan, 2012), work (Gillet, Gagne, Sauvagere, & Fouquereau, 2012;Moran, Diefendorff, Kim, & Liu, 2012) and school (Wehmeyer, Palmer, Shogren, Williams-Diehm, & Soukup, 2013) and general leisure pursuits (Leversen, Danielson, Wold, & Samdal, 2012;Ratelle, Vallerand, Senecal & Provencher, 2005). There is a small but growing body of literature showing that self-determined motivation toward conflicting goal pursuits reduces reported conflict due to the harmonious integration of the goals into the self concept (Ratelle et al, 2005;Senecal, Vallerand, & Guay, 2001). While SDT is comprised of component sub-theories, the Organismic Integration Theory (OIT) is of particular interest to this study.…”