+200 students received requests from their parents asking them to study more. These were formulated in a controlling, neutral or autonomy-supportive way.
When requests were made in a controlling way, adolescents expressed more frustration, pressure and reactance. Consequently, they acted in the opposite way and didn’t study.
We are less likely to adopt a behavior if we feel coerced or threatened.
See the full study here :
Petegem, Soenens,, Vansteenkiste & Beyers (2015). Rebels with a cause? Adolescent defiance from the perspective of reactance theory and self‐determination theory. Child Development, 86(3), 903-918.
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