The Relationship Between Teaching Faculty’s Occupational Supports and Their Feelings of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Influence

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Abstract

We leverage self-determination theory to investigate how institutions can bolster
teaching-faculty’s influence by satisfying their needs for autonomy, competence, and
relatedness. We found that teaching-faculty’s needs-satisfaction mediated the relationship between their occupational supports and influence. These results have implications for how to
increase the quality and quantity of teaching-faculty’s influence.

Authors

• Meaghan Beth McMurran, University of California - Riverside

• Sabrina Solanki, University of California - Irvine

• Brian Sato, University of California - Irvine