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From: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate self-determination theory for exercise adherence and weight control: rationale and intervention description

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Model Describing Internalization and Human Motivation. Model shows different types of motivation and regulation continuum reflecting varying degrees of internalization and self-determination. This continuum reflects a simplex-ordered structure, evident when the correlation between scales measuring adjacent types of motivation such as external regulation and introjected regulation is higher than the correlation between dimensions that lie further apart such as external regulation and identified regulation. Adapted from [68].

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