Kadjo, Patrick Lumumba (2023) Coaching Beginning Teachers: The Moderating Role of Perceptual (Dis)Agreement and Personality in Basic Psychological Need Support, Satisfaction, and Autonomous Motivation. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In this research, the relationship between coach and beginning teacher in an educational context has been examined with respect to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT). More precisely, it focused on the moderating effect of perceptional (dis-)agreement between coach (n = 72) and beginning teacher (n = 72) regarding coach’s basic psychological need (BPN) supportive behavior on the relationship between teacher’s perceived BPN supportive behavior of coach and teacher’s BPN satisfaction. We hypothesized that perceptional agreement between the two actors positively moderates the described relationship. Apart from perceptional differences, personality of beginning teacher (conscientiousness and extraversion) has been tested as a moderator between teacher’s BPN satisfaction and autonomous motivation. Conscientiousness as well as extraversion were hypothesized to have a positive relationship in moderation. Coaches as well as beginning teachers filled out questionnaires measuring perceived BPN supportive behaviors, BPN satisfaction, personality and autonomous motivation after each coaching session. Overall, the results partially support our first hypothesis and perceptional agreement between coach and teacher seems to lead to higher satisfaction of the BPN for autonomy and competence. Increased disagreement in perception between both actors led to higher satisfaction of the BPN for relatedness. Personality was found to be an insignificant moderator between BPN satisfaction and autonomous motivation in beginning teacher. We argue that teacher’s self-criticism as well as educational context might have led to finding only partial support for our hypotheses. Available research on coaching have only focused on a sports environment while our results reveal new important contributions and implications in the field of educational coaching. Lastly, several limitations in our study and future research recommendations are discussed.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Liu, J. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2023 08:55 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2023 08:55 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2601 |
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