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The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy

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  • Melvyn Hamstra

    (LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • L. Maxim Laurijssen

    (University of Groningen [Groningen])

  • Bert Schreurs

    (VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel [Bruxelles])

Abstract

This research sought to test the hypothesis that regulatory fit enhances people's feelings of autonomy. Regulatory fit can be created by prompting people to execute a task using means of task execution that fit (vs. do not fit) their preferred means of goal-pursuit. Assigning people to do a task using a particular means implies they do not exercise choice in applying their preferred means of goal-pursuit. Nevertheless, we reasoned that fitting task means would lead to higher feelings of autonomy while working on a task because, under conditions of regulatory fit, people are using the means that they would have chosen if they had been given choice. We conducted 10 experiments (total N = 3,124) to test the effect of regulatory fit versus regulatory non-fit on experienced autonomy and a meta-analysis of the effects supported our hypothesis for both promotion focus-based fit and prevention focus-based fit.

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  • Melvyn Hamstra & L. Maxim Laurijssen & Bert Schreurs, 2023. "The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy," Post-Print hal-04132991, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04132991
    DOI: 10.1177/19485506231168522
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